As abstract as time is, it is a concept. We like to generalize the idea of it, but time is in fact a&nbsp;notion that is as individualized as our thoughts. Everyone lives it, thinks it and wastes it, in their own&nbsp;way. It&rsquo;s an idea on a global scale that gives a sense of unity, a sense of security, a sense that &ldquo;we&nbsp;are all in it together&rdquo;, but in reality we are all on our own clock. Except in some parts of the world, we&nbsp;do live in a kind of World Time that trespasses all borders through the digitized spheres; if only that&nbsp;were true, not just in the&nbsp;electronic bands widths and times.&nbsp;As an artist, time does stand still for ideas. Hence, I reached out to great minds for this issue to get&nbsp;an insight into different perspectives on the subject. A kind of Intermission, to pause, to think, to let&nbsp;the curtain down for a minute and see what happens.

Michael Wang, proposes a &ldquo;Drowned World&rdquo; in which our current climate change is reverting nature&nbsp;back to the earth&rsquo;s First Forest, returning full circle to 300 million years&nbsp;ago. While Roni Horn, creates&nbsp;&ldquo;Remembered Words&rdquo; between the years 2012-2013. Talia Chetrit captures that tender age of&nbsp;&ldquo;Sonic Youth&rdquo; and the 1990s or &ldquo;l&rsquo;Age&nbsp;Ingrat&rdquo; through her photographic diary of her teenage years between&nbsp;the ages from 13-15.. Writer Carol Becker expresses perceptions of time and&nbsp;the&nbsp;contemplative&nbsp;space of art. I shot photos of aircraft windows inflight, capturing an Intermission on&nbsp;&ldquo;Airplane Mode&rdquo; through landscapes of skies which are&nbsp;nowhere&nbsp;and everywhere at the same time.&nbsp;Mauro Hertig creates a musical score through the rolling sound of suitcases and airplane engines in&nbsp;&ldquo;The Perfect Passivity,&rdquo;&nbsp;an opera based performance embodying the airport as the Intermission.&nbsp;Hope Atherton casts time. Yngve Holen speaks to neuroscientists about their research into&nbsp;the behavioral&nbsp;psychology of monkeys in &ldquo;The Animal House is Closed.&rdquo; He travels deep into the Amazon to&nbsp;speak to the National Institute for Science Technology and&nbsp;Innovation for Amazonian Biodiversity to&nbsp;discuss the economics of deforestation, as: &ldquo;Of course No one pays the Amazonas for that Function&rdquo;&nbsp;from his ETOPS magazine&nbsp;issues &ldquo;Headache&rdquo; and &ldquo;Amazonas&rdquo;. Writer Brett Littman discusses&nbsp;Isamu Noguchi&rsquo;s research through never before seen archival photographs by Noguchi himself&nbsp;of&nbsp;his search for &ldquo;Environments of Leisure&rdquo; through a seven year grant to travel across the world.WriterChristopher Bollen travels to Cambodia to photograph every&nbsp;clock he encounters within a 24 hour period in&nbsp;Phnom Penh. Prior to 1975, his birth year, also known as &ldquo;The Year Zero&rdquo;, owning a clock was punishable&nbsp;by death. Florian Krewer takes a line for walk by essentially killing time. Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili&nbsp;captures the markings of time. Becca dives into geological &ldquo;Deep time&rdquo;. Matthew Barney shares his latest&nbsp;drawing &ldquo;Diana and Actaeon&rdquo;, drawing on classical mythology. Liz Magic Laser hires via Fiverr, the new&nbsp;Task Rabbit app. She works with Zahid the&nbsp;graphic designer from Pakistan who stars in her latest&nbsp;experimental reality TV show, to layout her contribution to this issue coming full circle. &ldquo;Time Pressure&rdquo;&nbsp;follows the&nbsp;lives of five gig workers who rely on work they find through online platforms such as Fiverr&nbsp;under unrealistic time constraints. Francesco Vezzoli invites us into his new&nbsp;studio, filled with collected&nbsp;artifacts from all different periods. Camille Henrot reveals the workings of an Intermission through &ldquo;Wet&nbsp;Job&rdquo;, the breast pump series; expressed through words by Sarah Demeuse, exploring how to give the body a&nbsp;break through mechanisms. The project extends its reach into film, commissioning artists&nbsp;Martine Syms, Ari&nbsp;Marcopoulos and Sarah Morris; each creating an Intermission on the screen. Martine proposes an ideological&nbsp;athlete in the year 2050, filmed on a&nbsp;robotic arm morphing human and machine in &ldquo;Capricorn&rdquo;. While Ari&nbsp;captures virtuoso heavy metal speed guitarist Mick Barr defying time through sound in &ldquo;Annwn&nbsp;Current&nbsp;Incarnation&rdquo;. Sarah specifically shoots her film in time to capture the fleeting moment in which the spectacle&nbsp;of the blossoming of the Sakura tree occurs at&nbsp;the infamous Osaka castle, the ghost capital, in her epic&nbsp;fictious documentary &ldquo;Sakura&rdquo;.&nbsp;

With a very special thank you to Chanel for their support.

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