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Chronos, Kairos and Social Time - navreme, as a company has to deal with time questions in the sense of „chronos“, in its planning, calculations, research, measuring and evaluation – these processes are not possible without a chronification of activities. Not only is navreme successful in dealing with “chronos”, but it also helps other companies, institutions and individuals in the optimisation of chronofiable activities – and the development of knowledge. At the same time, the claim of the name “navreme” (in Greek “kairos”) remains relevant as well. “Kairos” often is the “appropriate moment” and the “moment of decision”. Thus, „Kairos“ requires a kind of „pre-view“ and that kind of preparedness, attention and qualification, to not only measure and prognosticate the fortunate moment, but to recognise and utilise it: Which knowledge is needed now and in future? Which knowledge is the right one at a determined moment? How are new paradigms of knowledge announced? How can one know, that the right moment has arrived, and for what? It is these kairos-questions, which eventually lead to the arts. Artists are kairos-experts, as artistic processes are influenced heavily by kairos-decisions: When does an artist find the first “right” sentence, tone, stroke? When is a piece of art finished or even completed? Artistic competence consists, among others, in „organising“ its proper methods, and often including there whole own life, that claims of kairos are identified and can be transformed into decisions of form accordingly. It is an asset of navreme, that it is not only aware of this double structure of claims in its knowledge development, but also that such multi-competent team turns to artists as experts for open procedures, in order to learn more about their immanent dynamics. On occasion of its 5-years existence navreme, as a innovative network enterprise, has launched the initiative a-stra, in order to give a clear form to its interest in specificities of artistic innovation: once per year artists shall be invited to comment navreme from their point of view and with artistic means. The results of this interaction will be acquired by navreme, and be exposed on the navreme web-site and be communicated in other meaningful manners. As first a-stra artist, Katharina Razumovsky who works in Vienna via diverse media, has picked up on this challenge. From a series of current works, she has selected the right opus for navreme and for this evening. The image addresses the experience of its title, to be “at the wrong time in the wrong place”.
Katharina Razumovsky irritates our conceptions of sovereign planning, clear calculability, and optimal development via the hint about own timeliness. As it is known we are finite beings, and thus are in principle at the utmost borrowers on call, and not sovereigns of time. The pictures of Katharina Razumovsky often deal with deviation and decentralisedness, by articulating the experience of individual deviation from the ruling order. The protagonists of her work frequently dwell at the wrong time in the wrong place – as they do in the image selected on purpose for navreme. Under use of their individual life time, the actors of the pictures and films by Katharina Razumovsky test the synchrony of governing societal circumstances, which frequently happen to be asynchronous and asocial. Her allusion to the factor time as a politicum completes the conceptions of time mentioned above with a significant social dimension. Here art is not only time critique in the meaning of the word. In addition, Razumovsky introduces a new theme which navreme could increasingly move towards as an area of action (note by navreme: as a consequence, see our social engagement). If not earlier, at this point is becomes evident at least, how convincing a-stra has started with the work by Katharina Razumovsky „at the wrong time in the wrong place“. Christian Muhr, liquid frontiers, Wien, Österreich
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