THE FATER OR THE SON?
proposal for the Barbican Theatre Open Lab 2021/2022
"Those who have tried to think about contemporariness have been able to do so by splitting it up into several times, by introducing into time an essential dishomogeneity. Those who say ‘my time’ actually divide time—they inscribe into it a caesura and a discontinuity. But precisely by means of this caesura, this interpolation of the present into the inert homogeneity of linear time, the contemporary puts to work a special relationship between the different times.
The contemporary (thinker) is one who, dividing and interpolating time, is capable of transforming it and putting it in relation to other times and generations."
The contemporary (thinker) is one who, dividing and interpolating time, is capable of transforming it and putting it in relation to other times and generations."
What is the Contemporary? by Giorgio Agamben (2009)