Tools for Slowing Down
Verwoert asks how we can change the way our society lives as we consume our own products if we are performing and producing at a prolific rate?
Chloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
powerful position of resistance against societal norms, that there are more meaningful, gratifying ways of interacting with the world besides aggressively consuming and producing through these superficial modes and channels.
Chloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
To have no time, to tirelessly do more at once, to become increasingly flexible, to constantly change goals, plans, preferences – and to earn less and less. All this characterises neoliberal work and life.’
Chloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
it is that knowledge that puts pressure on us to be complicit in our own (self)exploitation
Chloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
Capitalism chases us with its' perpetual existence even in 'desirable' professions/pursuits
I wonder if you experience a different set of values that are perhaps slightly more empathetic to a more considered, slower approach in your geographic context—do you feel the same or different pressures? I recently met with an Italian curator, Viviana Checchia (coincidentally also an ICI alumna) who has just finished a PhD thesis on slowness in
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The ways different cultures see slowness and solitude
intends to cultivate more space and time for slower experiences and deeper reactions to artworks and in turn begins to suggest alternative modes of being, thinking and negotiating the world, and for consuming culture. By offering this constellation of slowed experiences where visitors are required to invest time performing and navigating the... See more