Description
William Kentridge’s contemporary work is located at the border between art and science: by examining our perception and understanding of time, he reconsiders the creative process. A work in progress in the truest sense, The Refusal of Time continues and deepens the polymorphic, dreamlike, political and humanist body of work developed by Kentridge from his very earliest days as an artist. An installation with performance elements, The Refusal of Time was once conceived by Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison for Documenta 13, and realized in collaboration with video filmmaker Catherine Meyburgh and composer Philip Miller, either one of whom worked with Kentridge and Galison for a year. Time in its more than a few manifestations–narrative, fragmented, slowed down and speeded up; distortions of space-time; simultaneity–is explored through more than a few media, including dance, film, music and spoken word. The book itself is a murals; it includes sketches and notebooks, all of the texts read right through the performance, pictures from the rehearsals and workshop in addition to highlights of the show, interviews and drawings created specially for it by Kentridge.