Now-Time, Issue 1, 2025, “A Whirlpool in the River of Becoming”
6.75" x 9.5" – 226 pages
Now-Time is a research and publishing project coordinating a multiplicity of historical lines oriented towards present activity. We aim to relink design,¹ critical consciousness, and social-historical perspective. With collaborators we create new works that move through the maze of what has been,² and transform those old works that speak indirectly but lucidly to the present situation.³
¹ Design defined as courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
² Truth, questions and ideas in art / stories / evidence passed from the past, pleasant and unpleasant.
³ The necessity of overcoming the icy waters of egotistical calculation.
Locating buried agreements between generations creates a coexistence of hopes and struggles that demystify and defamiliarize everyday life. By tracing repetition and novelty throughout historical processes we can make perceptual ruptures between what exists and what is possible.
We make objects and publications as vehicles for the productive power of cooperation, bridging private and political life, creating new shared points of reference. By observing, collecting, and testifying, we collectively gain deeper perspectives about problems and fundamental questions.
Against mechanical time, mythical history, and the trap of the present, we collapse the hyphen between now and then, finding correspondences between moments without distinction between major and minor, creating spaces with tools encouraging intervention. History does nothing, we do.
The task is to cooperatively construct a counter-past of charged material, contributing to the general social imaginary, highlighting untimely potentials and capacities to draw from.
Contributors : Present : Experimental Jetset, Ben DuVall, Megan Switzer, Rania Dalloul, Blake Leigh, Zoe Kauder Nalebuff, Jacob Lindgren, Matt Peterson, Nickolas Calabrese, William Lockett, Alex Wolfe, Maria Rivero Gonzalez, Alan Smart, Gilbert Again, Alan Reed OSB, Tiger Dingsun
Contributors : Charged with Now-Time : J.A. Comenius, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), A.S. Eddington, Facteur Cheval, Abraham Moles, Jean-François Lyotard, Barb McClain, Flora Tristan, Born In Flames (1983), Bertolt Brecht, Frantz Fanon, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, + Much Else
T̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ The whirling of time
What is...is dependent on what's in circulation What stands... what is about to disappear... what should be no longer. Renewing whats been dragged to the bottom of the vortex.
What = useful ideas, questions, and truths in art / stories / evidence passed from the past.
