TIME

When I first read the article in "Themes of Contemprary Art" I was slightly confused as to what the article was getting at, but the more I reaqd the more I realized that I had never looked at the many different ways time is expressed. Especially in Contemporary Art, "Contemporary Artists have approached the recording and representation of our experience of real time in many unexpected and novel ways..." (Robertson and Mcdaniel 128). The passing of time was most frequently expressed throughout art history in static forms, like paintings, sculptures, tapestries, and ceramics. The contemporary arts took the expression of time to a whole new level.
My favorite expression of the passing of time has to be Andrea Bowers' "Waiting". Because normally when we think of the passing of time we think of movement... the progression of something... seeing something evolve. However Bowers took a different approach in this video. It shows an ice skater kneeling on the ice as if she is waiting for her music to start so that she can begin her performance. When the music starts she just stays kneeling and the music loops, but she never moves. There is no narrative either. Its almost as time is standing still.
Andrea Bowers took a very beautiful take on time... Normally in out society when we think of time we think of it flying by... but in this installation by Bowers she seems to make it stop.

http://teachingphoto.com/photos/Waiting.jpg