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Antonio Vega Macotela
INTERCAMBIO 89

24 Month Meditation,
a two year project by Robert Vincent
September 2010
London
TIME DIVISA
Work in progress

Time Divisa is a project that explores the possibility of replacing money with a time-sharing system based on the exchange of time for different tasks. It consists of 365 individual exchanges with inmates of the Santa Martha Acotila prison in Mexico City.

On a specific day and time, mutually agreed upon, the tasks are realized simultaneously. Each of us does the tasks the other requires and the documentation of it is the currency. The documentation of these tasks is done by electronic means on my part, such as audio or video, while the inmates by drawing and/or making objects.

The time exchanges are classified according to what I ask the interns to do. I consider the outcome of each exchange as a piece of work. I present these works as mine since they are the result of our time exchange, and I choose not to present what I do for them because those documentations represent the time that belongs to them.

The 365 exchanges (348 accomplished so far) are classified into 5 categories:

Time as corporal experience
Time as displacement/ mapping
Time as caprice
Time as creation of relationships
Time as the creation of systems of intervention in the prison
INTERCAMBIO 89
Part of Time Divisa

In this collaboration between the inmate Ivan and artist Antonio Vega, an exchange of meditation and visiting, for a time of one hour was agreed upon. Antonio was to visit Ivan's grandfather and record the meeting and at the same time Ivan was to record himself breathing.

Antonio went to Tepito to meet Iván’s grandfather and on arrival the old man mistakenly thought that his grandson had come to visiting him - maybe in a disembodied way. The grandfather entered a state of trace as he chatted with his invisible grandson, asking him questions in a way that it seemed he believed that grandson was present and not Antonio.

24 MONTH MEDITATION

24 Month Meditation is a two year project, which develops a Biennial in real time. Curated by Robert Vincent, this has taken shape from a radical reflection on international art exhibitions and will be a time of work devoted to different states of meditation or self-transcendent practice, both private and collective, that can be achieved in art through a state of high/altered perception.
The Biennial is a project that does not mean to stack intentions, places or people into an organised vertical - structure, in order to prompt a dialogue with the art system. The Biennial stems from a personal necessity.
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