Anticipation Time
MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, Bat Yam, Israe
March 06 - June 26, 2010
Deganit Berest, Jacob Ferri, Sofia Hulten, William Hunt, Oz Malul, Batsheva Ross, Orly Sever and Jordan Wolfson
“What is the meaning of art, architecture, music, painting, or poetry if not the anticipation of a suspended, wonder-struck moment, a miraculous moment?” (Georges Bataille)
Anticipation Time defines the time between the end of an object’s movement and its human perception. This temporal gap, which precedes the “response time,” is filled with sensory experience and awareness that anticipate movement, behavior, and interpretation. This exhibition examines the concrete biological, physical, psychological, and social aspects of “anticipation time” – as well as the conceptual and poetic potential of the terms – “time” and “anticipation.”
The works included in the exhibition were displayed in a museum space, which rules and conventions the viewer was required to respect. Yet these very same rules and conventions are ones that the artist is expected to repeatedly break or ignore – transgressing limits and disrupting the existing order.
