9 to 5 - Eine Frage der Zeit

Ambivalent demands on time and how it can be organised characterise our everyday lives. We should be mindful of ourselves, of our own work, slow down and at the same time always remain productive, constantly developing new things. Artistic production is also confronted with social narratives of speed and acceleration. It is not uncommon for the work realities of young artists in particular to become entangled between the fixed structures of wage labour and the fluid timetable of artistic exploration. Time can describe something concrete or abstract, sometimes it means a fixed framework, an open window, marks a transition, an intermediate space or it refers to the past. What different perceptions and perspectives on time and temporality move artists in the environment of an art academy and what aesthetic questions develop from this? Which artistic perspectives are emerging on the current ambivalences of deceleration and productivity? Six artistic positions question various aspects of temporality, narratives of linearity and chronology, finiteness, working conditions and time pressure in this exhibition at the ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer of the HFBK Hamburg.