Weekly Planner I & II de Silje Iversen Kristiansen sont deux livres de poche individuels remplis de dessins. Les dessins traduisent de manière fragmentée son rapport subjectif à l'espace et au temps. Chaque livre couvre une année, commençant toujours en mai et se terminant en avril. En plus des dessins, les livres contiennent un texte de
Jan Verwoert qui réfléchit au sujet.
« There never is enough time. There always is much too much of it. A contradiction? Not when you experience time for what it is. Real time has no clear shape or tempo. It comes and goes, fast and slow, disappearing before your eyes, like the train you just missed. Or it reappears in unbearably large amounts when you least expect it, like when the train breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and no one can say if and when the trip continues. A primary purpose of clocks and calendars therefore is to stop you from thinking too much about time, and how strangely it behaves. They give you something to hold on to, and protect yourself from standing naked before time. Modern people rely as heavily on such protection as they do on trains and planes. But they didn't fully forget how time actually comes and goes in long cycles, or sudden events. In Latin languages tempo, tiempo, temps still means both time and weather. As climate is changing, seasons are shifting, it's no use denying: time is an atmospheric condition. Tracing new cloud movement (or lack thereof) today, different calendars might soon need be drawn. Silje Iversen Kristiansen is already working on it. »
Jan Verwoert
Silje Iversen Kristiansen (née en 1994 à Sandvika) est une artiste norvégienne. Sa pratique associe dessin, chant et sculpture, principalement à partir de matériaux facilement disponibles et recyclés dans son environnement immédiat. Les œuvres prennent généralement la forme de publications, d'installations, de vidéos, de performances et de chansons, dans une approche intrinsèquement sculpturale.
