“We began working on the idea of a Wandering Calendar in 2022. This project initially arose out of an interest in inter-calendrical approaches to the measurement of time. We sought to learn more about varying cultural and historical understandings of the years/months/weeks/days that humanity understands itself to inhabit, but has always counted and recorded differently. Global capitalism asks the international community to agree on the year this is. Even if you live a different calendar, you likely have to keep the dominance of the Gregorian one in mind. And, increasingly, the arbitrariness of measured time is made to look even more absurd as human-made climate catastrophes continue to disrupt the natural cycles that previously characterized the seasons. Time.Space.Weather.Change.Growth.Destruction.Death.Birth.
We asked Ashes Withyman, Abigail Collins, S F Ho, Erika Kobayashi, Logan Francis, and Jeanne Randolph if they could share their wide-ranging thoughts, research, interests and translations of time. Their friendly engagement has so far orbited the historical and philosophical concerns that continually reveal how human consciousness is shaped by its political present. They have feelings, ideas, insights and – most importantly – they are game to share this work in public.
With support from Kunstverien Toronto and help from Brennan Kelly, the resulting projects will be presented (in the order above) every other month throughout “2024,” on the streets of Tkaronto and via the KvT website.”
In an effort to tip the scale towards love in this leap year filled with suffering… Wandering Calendar will be appearing around Tkaronto & online over the next 365 days, with contributors:
Ashes Withyman - @ashes_withyman
Abigail Raphael Collins - @a___r___c
S F Ho - @_acertainparty
Erika Kobayashi - @erikakobayashiek
Logan Frances - @sshheeebbaa
Jeanne Randolph -#jeannerandolph
HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander - #haeahnpaulkwonkajander
Thanks to @kvtoronto for hosting this unruly public project and to @brennan_j_kelly for design, creative and energetic support.
more info coming soon soon to kvtorontom.com
Some drawings from the summer. Posting now to keep my steady rhythm of two posts per year. Coloured pencil and graphite on some stinky old paper culled from a scrapbook of newspaper clippings I found in a thrift store. Please enjoy the content :-)
1. Triple F Life (Flies, Feces, Floor)
2. Little Brother
3. Auto-poetic Lunch
4. Cigarettes & Band-aids
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