Time, Object, Commodity From the time it takes to learn to make,
to the time it takes to make, to the time that an end product
remains on exhibition or in storage – the organization of time
around discrete works is an essential element of value-formation
in the field of art. Today, everyone from exhibiting
institutions to viewers to collectors have come to accommodate
dematerialized and time-based art forms. And these are often
based on some sort of contract – be it a written document
commensurate to the work itself or a tacit agreement leading to
and determining the nature of a performative exchange. As
conceived by Diedrich Diederichsen, value is not only determined
by the amount of time invested in production, but also in terms
of the investment of our – the art world’s – time in reception
and participating. This is the social contract that we, as
acting members of this landscape with vested interests and time
invested in our own production as individuals, have entered into
with the subject of our attentio