100 Ways to Consider Time: an evening with Marilyn Arsem
- Date
- Friday 18 Apr 2025
- Venue
The Garrett Centre
- Address
117A Mansford Street, E2 6LX
- Timings
Doors open: 6.30pm
Event: 7-9pm
Please join us on Friday 18 April at 7pm for an evening considering durational performance art with Marilyn Arsem.
Across a 100-day period in 2015-16, Marilyn created one hundred different six-hour performances which took place daily in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Each of these durational works represented a different inquiry on the nature of time.
For this special event, Marilyn will present an artist talk reflecting on this body of work and sharing her research on performance art and time. Following the talk, there will be a Q&A chaired by curator Joseph Morgan Schofield.
This event is curated by Future Ritual as an extension of their festival CEREMONY, taking place in London between 23rd and 27th April, for which Marilyn Arsem is making a new performance.
CEREMONY is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Further support towards the project has been given by the Mayor of London.
I dripped water from an eyedropper onto the large rock continually. I had a spotlight on it, so that the drops of water sparkled as they fell off the dropper. I used six oz of water, and at the end of the six hours there were particles of sand in the water in the dish below. According to information on the weatherization of granite in New England, it would only take 10,000 years for that rock to become sand. That was when I recognized that I understood time differently, when I thought “only ten thousand years".
Marilyn Arsem
Marilyn Arsem (b. 1951) has been creating and performing live events for more than forty years and has presented her work in thirty countries around the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, she also teaches performance art workshops internationally. In 1975, Arsem established a collaborative of artists now known as Mobius Artists Group, who create experimental art in all media. From 1987 to 2014, Arsem taught performance art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A book on her work, Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem, edited by Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, was published in 2020 by Intellect Books.
Future Ritual
Future Ritual works to support the emergence of new and more attuned cultures by collaborating with artists to create contemporary expressions of ritual. Established and led by Joseph Morgan Schofield, Future Ritual fosters spaces of sensitivity and attunement in which to think and feel through ideas of land, desire, belief, mystery and death. Since 2017, Future Ritual has intentionally shifted shape between iterations, temporarily activating and inhabiting borrowed spaces, organising curatorial programmes and pedagogical exchanges, and generating artist-driven research. The company is an engine for collaborative work, including sustained relationships as creative producers with a constellation of artists and practitioners.
Access Information
Event information: This is a seated event. All are welcome to join in a relaxed space and are free to come and go as they please. The lighting will be fixed with no sudden changes and microphone amplification will be used. There are disposable masks available. Please be aware that the event will be audio recorded.
LADA space: LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms. You can find more information and see photos of the space here. Should you have any particular access requirements, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to offer further support.
Event Documentation
Audio documentation of Marylin Arsem’s talk 100 Ways to Consider Time. For a version with closed captions, please visit our vimeo channel
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