1. Multiple Temporalities
Base to Understand Artistic
Representations of Afro in the
Globalization

2. Afro,
Afro Time and
Representations
Afro has been understood as a unified
image th t obeys particular t
i that b ti l temporal l
designs

3. Bonnie Barthold
Black Time: Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean
and the United States (1981)
African Internal of Linear
cyclic time passage time

4. The above entails…
A conception of time as
External Vs Internal
Unified
Universal

5. Multiple temporalities…
Time as sets of processes based on
coordination of actions, events, perceptions,
di ti f ti t ti
natural phenomena and socio-cultural
organizations.
These processes are multi-scale . It means,
t ey
they obey to se e a p c p es as
several principles
instantaneity, simultaneity, networked
connections, volatility, multiplicity and
complexity.

6. In that sense…
Time is susceptible to be
Transmitted Learned
Imposed

7. Artistic Practices and Time
Multi-layered and multi-temporal processes
Artist’s T.
Observer s
Observer’s
Work’s T.
T.

8. So…
If the artistic representations of Afro come
together in a network…
They
Th are based on network temporalities:
b d t kt liti
Overlapping
Criss-crossing
Coexistence

9. Global Scales

10. Local scales
Some examples

11. Thank you all
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