Time Fragment

 What makes a thought contemporary? is it an awareness about today's world? if so what makes this any different than people of the past in their times? 

A significant difference in comparison is created with introduction of  the Internet. Today, a tap on the screen is enough to know about remote corner of the world in seconds, however authenticity of the information remains unquestioned but access is evident. What information we chose to believe is subject to individual choices. 

Drawing connections between these scattered informations is a personalised process. when we make an effort to fill the gaps between what has been said and what it appears to be through other means of observation and reading, collectively fused together forms our version of the story. Our emotions and cultural conditioning plays a powerful mechanism to process these informations. 

We have learnt concerns of the past, the wars, suppression, slavery, inequality, discrimination of the individual as well as certain community. we are well aware of the history, however these issues are pertinent and exist between us even today. Ironically we haven't been able to find a resolve inspite of several years of study and modifications in administrative policies. Rest assured that these issues are not present today in the same old form but with a new complexity.   

The complexity of the age old problems is so much intricate today,  making it excruciating to separate ourselves from the existence of these disturbances, making us both retort and at the same time be an integral part of it than take up the responsibility finding a wholistic resolve. We are struggling to separate ourselves from the problems even as an observer or a spectator. our lives are intertwined if not dissolved more than ever with these complexities. 

In today's world, our correspondences, lifestyle, art, culture, administration so on so forth have taken up this complexity reflecting the time and its characteristics. one is dissolved in the other. the question arises as to how is it possible to comprehend and negotiate this complexity? 

We have gained more attention and sought demand for research more than ever. There are growing number of researchers and relentlessly blooming universities exist today than before. Have we managed to keep up the pace to understand our time inspite of our technological resources and knowledge? As an individual, the pause and reflect may be one of the many solutions to address this learning, but do we have the luxury to do so in this unstoppable force of constant rapid movement? 

We are driven by a system, more mightier than ever. you chose to call it capitalist or fascist or anything else but the existence of a mighty force is felt every moment if carefully observed. We reveal and record our lives every moment, and we are stipulated to function this way may be temporarily, tweaked through a strong evolutionary byproduct of communal living inherent to us.  

When we are inevitably intertwined in this fast paced power frenzy current, how are we supposed to make creative or intellectual interpretations of our time? at least as an expression, let alone be defined in future. The current is so brisk and rapid that before we manifest a stance, there’s a new appealing yet modified version presented before us further intensifying what was already complex.  so in short this agenda driven manipulative movement (however you may want to identify) has caused a tentative time which doesn't allow us to think and reflect but only to direct endlessly until we reach a predesigned destination, like time loop. 

This ever changing manifestation of movement is tangible not as concrete anymore because of complexity but fleeting and momentary. The amalgamation of time, culture and lives have been shifting too rapidly to trace the trajectory of change at least at present. however today, we have acquired the capacity to behold and scrutinise specific tangible fleeting experiences which are the essential parts of what makes this movement challenging to comprehend. It is these fleeting momentary experiences that remain as fragments of time that guide us to understand the movement within complex structures. These scattered and gathered pieces of invaluable fragmented cognitive experiences when translated as an artistic expression reflects our time effectively. 

The explosion of information whether necessary or not, the consumer driven directions to keep the restless and anxious movement alive, the superficial need, weaved through inevitable participation, exclusion of the absent and promised validation of the presence makes it impossible to hold anything concrete as a subjective interpretation. The little trails left by the change encapsulates the time more effectively and efficiently making the thought fleeting, fragmented and disoriented but truthful to time.