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By Mirjana Selakov

The exhibition should bring up to discussion some recent time models and they affect to the way of live and a feeling of humans, who are but culturally shaped by different time perceptions.

In synchronous like diachronic time models the following questions are treated:

+) how was the time divided and counted here and at the other places, in the past centuries?
+) how one measured the time without a watch and
+) how one imagined the eternity
+) does the debate about „ sustainability" has something to do with our time conception
+) how the term "time" is changing today
+) how the relationship between free-time and working time (and unemployment time) has been changed and how is this to be interpreted?
+) why in different cultures, the relationship to "being in time/ accuracy" is differently understood and interpreted?
+) are phenomena like „Slowfood "and „Slobbies "(„Slower but better working people ") indications for a fundamental change in the weighting of slowness on the one hand and speed („in case of acceleration ") on the other hand?

In former times the life of humans was usually represented with a time axis. This understanding slowly disappears as well as the intimate relationship between humans and the time. Today different people, from different ethnic groups share a same time concept. The time is today simplified to an abstract of its digital sequences. The western linear time concept means today, that the time consists of numerous segments of the continuous moments. Development of new technologies influenced this linear model of time, so we talk today about parallel and simultaneously times.

The concept of parallel time exists already in the Asian cultural. However it is certain that large differences exist both, while individual handling with the time and concerning the general life speed. This leads us back to the question whether a certain form of "Time Colonialisms" exists today?

Will progressive technological development and globalization, while providing a degree of cultural equality, also affect that different concept of time will disappear? How will humans and cultures find a balance between their traditional conceptions and new values, which the global economy required of them? Parallel time calculation is a cultural phenomenon, which places local cultural history and modern time next to each other. But still, the most crucial moment is how one understands the time.

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