Dictionary by Rosario Hurtado, Roberto Feo and Stuart Bannocks (pages 56-68)
2020 Verbier Art Summit > Resoruce Hungry_Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact Edited by Jessica Morgan and Dorothea von Hantelmann
PERMANENCE IS AN ILLUSION
We have known this from the very first time we encountered death. With this realisation we have been drawn to find significance to our transient estate and understanding spacetime has been central to all our human activities. Our transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers and industrialists has transformed our landscape and our culture. Every technological advancement that allowed us to cheat time further has had both its social and environmental costs. And we are left with the question: how did we get here?
Collapscape production technique, developed from the constructions of narratives, which artificially collapses time and space.
Time Capsule a collection of goods and information intended as means of communication with future people in relation to our moment in time.
Time Machine a conceptual artifice that allows us to collate distant events within a new non-historical timeline.
Mature having reached its full potential.
Authentic of undisputed origin and not a copy, bragging of a direct link with the ‘creator’ - with passport.
Antique belonging to ancient times.
Antiques that which has experienced the stain of time but retains its charm.
New the illusion of time 00:00
NUT New Universal Time
Permanent lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely.
Ephemeral something that lasts for a very short time; transitory.
Antediluvian conceptually or materially ancient or backwards irrespectively of its origin in time.
Ephermanent the permanent potential of the ephemeral to outlast the life of the generation it created it.
Permeral the ephemeral destiny of the ‘permanent’ found ahead of time within the life of the generation it created it.
Persistent some recurring annoyance.
Restoration material interventions that aim at overturning the consequences of time.
Preservation environmental or material conditioning aimed at stopping the effects of time.
Monumental massive or imposing.
Ephimera Monumentalis massive and imposing transitional structures.
Inminent about to happen - in Spanish often referred to as tomorrow.
Ever at all times.
Never Lasting reflecting our transient reality.
Past something that we know it was.
Future what we think it lays ahead.
Pasture a place to rejoice in the past.
Space Travel all travel implies transiting space, but we will use this concept to refer travelling outside the confinement of planet Earth.
Time Travel nowadays it is associated with multidimensionality of the universe.
Dimension one of the many possible realities.
Timension as above, but a more graphic word of our making.
Now it just passed.
Long Now long term thinking.
Then it will passed.
Momentophemeral if you were not there you missed it.
Trivial deemed not worthy by a group of people that do not regard its importance.
Transitional everything
Impass a situation where all parties momentarily withhold action as any course of action will have a negative outcome for any of the parties, usually resolved with a ‘fuck it’.
Impassed we still remember Leroy Jenkins
Irresolute most probably a wise man
Derailevance made pointless by some action
Underlining manifestation of passive aggressiveness
Design sometimes also referred as art, medicine, science, cooking, philosophy,
White Room time machine prototypes
Museum time capsule
Material extracted, collected, grown or synthesized mater to be used in something else
Materiality our perceived composition of things
Matter what make up things
Matters because it is important
Land Art a form of abstraction relying on scale brought back to figurativism by aerial photography
Painting the Mountains White the functional underlining of the work of art
Konditioning decontextualised use of Mary Kondo`s techniques.
Hill-Housed architectural Matryoshka doll effect. To build a ‘temporary’ construction over a building with the intention of preserving it, as in the Mackintosh’s Hill House Glass Box.
Eyesore an aesthetic disagreement generally between an individual and a community with a very strong sense of style.
Soberb a semi-rural neighbourhood populated mostly by old people or by strict religious families. So called for the noticeable lack of parties.
The Ship of Theseus thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. (Wikipedia)
The Sheep of Theseus* Thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object (or being) that is produced using exactly the same components remains fundamentally the same object (or being). *In loving memory of Dolly the Sheep (5 July 1996 to 14 February 2003)
Facetime technologically induced facelift
Gift Shop time capsule of the mass produced.
