BFFA3AE: "The time now is..."
December 13 – 26, 2011
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The Internet’s impact on the ways in which time and space are experienced in the modern era is complex, contradictory, and illusory. Websites exist in a perpetual state of revision, replacement, and interconnection. Social networking platforms, email and chat correspondence, and “web presence” each create their own enclaves of relationships between people, events, and situations in both the online and offline environments. And ultimately, these ostensibly separate realities demand that we accept them all simultaneously. Examining these new facets of our shared environment, BFFA3AE’s “the time now is…” begins with a assemblage of texts and quotations exploring instability in space, time, and relationships created in multiple instances across several social media platforms. The resulting work with texts and drawings spread around sites like flickr, tumblr, okcupid, and twitter, examines the notion of selfhood online, while highlighting the properties and assumptions inherent in each platform. The piece will also include a leaflet distributed at the gallery the duration of the show, and a physical event happening at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. The performance event, “the time now is 7:30PM” will serve as an extension of BFFA3AE’s newest project for klausgallery.net, and will create a timeline of the event as mapped out by the social interactions happening within it. The beer cans made available at the opening will be attached to a string that measures the distance in time in which various people have come into the space. This performance serves as a separate site of reception for the work, measuring in real time the social interactions within the gallery space itself.