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Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 121 twenty years and apart from a brief stint at the By stopping to contemplate and pray it is as if a Marinus of Tyre, 70 very start of my career, I’ve experienced regular, knife were given to us with which we can carve out Phoneician mathematician if thankfully brief, periods of “resting”. These a doorway to another world. Taken out of one world, Hero of Alexandria, Greek engineer 10 intermittent times nearly always follow the same the hours physical and present, we are able to replace pride, greed This means that there are only pattern: intense work (The Beach! Hollywood! and exploitation with peace, purity and justice. time issue 26 human “touch generations” Di Caprio! Danny Boyle! Thailand!), then a huge The title for my show, The Hours, also seeks to explore iven the extreme rate of change the explorer Sven Hedin. I then found am currently reading Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass between me and Jesus of Nazereth. I comedown (student film! half-naked on a roof in the how we can change the priorities of time in our day. Grayson at work in our culture today it a notable person who was born shortly trilogy. In it, a knife with magical powers allows g could form a human bridge between driving rain! Croydon!), followed by mind-numbing i Perry, the potter who won the Turner prize, has himself called seems reasonable and responsible before Hedin died. And then someone characters to cut a door in one world to be transported me and Christ’s life on earth with boredom (house-hunting in London!), coupled with for a “Slow Art” movement to resist the current art market to expect tremendous change in born before he died, and so on. With to another. In my recent show, The Hours, I was quite contents only 26 people reaching out finger a growing sense of anxiety for the future (will I that requires artists to produce art faster and faster, for more It’s been a long day Brandon Dickerson 2 the Christian church in the next little effort I can arrange a chain of only taken by this concept, this lifting out of the everyday tip to finger tip across time. ever work again?), eventually relieved by another and more shows, leaving no time to contemplate one’s ideas Art fever: Bejing Jonathan Kearney 3 1,000 years. Yet who in the church 13 people that will reach back 1,000 into another reality. Through prayer and meditation we Calculated this way 1,000, or even intense, involving job (Greenfingers! Clive Owen! and inspiration. Deadlines, productivity, the talk of business Time-lapse Patrick Dobson 4 is preparing for this great shift? years. are indeed able to be lifted from our material reality to 2,000 years doesn’t seem so distant. Helen Mirren!), then the cycle starts again. Phew. schools, all seem to be creeping into the creative fields. It is 13 Generations Kevin Kelly 5 Where in the church is the needed Me 1952 an awareness of something bigger than us, a help in To span 1,000 years we need only Even beyond a believing walk with God, you can important to carve out time for ourselves to seek this other Time is the master? Patterson Joseph 6 long-term perspective? What is the Sven Hedin, world explorer 1865 times of trouble and source of inspiration for all we do. 13 lifespans. We can hold a list of see how potentially unhealthy this up and down reality, to take our knife and carve out a place where we can The Hours Natasha Kissell 7 scenario for the next 1,000 years William Hooker, early botanist 1785 13 names connecting us to the year of activity/passivity could be in the long term. be still and exist in a world of infinite goodness beauty and of Christianity? As the wisdom in James Oglethorpe, 1696 1000 AD in our head, and going in the The remedy? That ugly phrase, “time eternal inspiration. For, as Dostoyevsky said, “Beauty will save Proverbs 29:18 reminds us, “Without founder of the state of Georgia opposite direction we can imagine only management”. I’ve learnt and, indeed, am learning the world”. a vision the people perish.” Pope John III of Poland 1629 13 lives (and perhaps fewer if longevity think the most bizarre aspect of time is its very through the help of my family and some good One thousand years may seem Hieronymmous Praetorius, increases), linking us and the year i resistance to definition. It has been used from friends, to prioritise my time before the pressure too distant and remote to even German composer 1560 3000 AD. In terms of lifetimes, which time immemorial to describe variously, a gift: “I’ll of work forces me to prioritise work over family, contemplate, particularly for busy Andrea Doria, 1466 are steadily increasing due to medical give you more time...”; as something we can own: friends and personal space. This is not easy for the folk who have trouble making Italian naval commander progress, 10 centuries is just next door. “I’ll take my time to do it...”; and even this strange freelancer and will be a constant battle, but I must next summer’s vacation plans. Donatello, Italian artist 1386 But in technological change terms, and tortuous phrase, “It’s only a matter of time...”. believe in the “led life” above the “driven life” if I’m Ten centuries so exceeds our own Peter IV of Aragon 1319 10 centuries is a distant as another But the reality is that time does not, in any to walk in anything resembling the way of Christ. lifetime that we want to dismiss it Duccio, Italian painter 1255 galaxy. Remember all the revolutions tangible, physical sense, exist. We can neither hold In the cut and thrust of this busy market-place, as extraneous and unapproachable, Tankei, Japanese sculptor 1173 that have happened in the last century. it, throw it or contain it in a box; it doesn’t have a “shelf-life”, the time before your “best-before date” and not worth thinking about. When Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford 1116 contributors and credits Now times it by 10 or more. Landing shape, a colour or an odour. It is, then, a concept expires, is a constant sword of Damocles that hangs reckoned in years, a millennial is Coloman of Hungary 1070 in the next millennial will be like we humans need and use to portion out the hours threateningly over every artist. We feel that we have forever. But reckoned in human life Robert I, Duke of Burgundy 1011 landing on an alien planet. How will and days, in order that we can organise our lives. only a small window of opportunity to make our STEVE COLE JONATHAN KEARNEY Thanks to all our contributors times, it is nearer than it first looks. None of the notable luminaries in Christianity change and adapt over So, the other essential truth about time is that mark and make a difference. Time presses. We feel Steve is married to Rachel and has two Jonathan is an artist who has recently For more articles and information about Everyone understands a generation, this chain had actually met, so this children Sam (6) and Jasmine (4). He founded returned to London after living in China for Artisan go to www.artisaninitiatives.org the next 13 generations? How will it although it cannot be felt, held nor seen, it can be we must focus all our energies on breaking through, and how values and consequences unbroken circuit is purely conceptual. I Artisan in 1996 and loves meeting people 3 years. As well as exhibiting world wide, deal with all the weirdnesses those measured. And this is where the intangibility of time of striking whilst the iron is hot. But are we really Editor can flow over many generations. The was forced to use notable people who and hearing stories over a decaf Americano he works part-time as an Associate Lecturer 13 generations will experience – from finally meets the practical needs of our day to day to sacrifice all for the service of our art? Family, Jess Bee Bible pays attention to generations. were unlikely to cross paths because at London’s South Bank. The most inspiring and researcher at the University of the Arts, artificial intelligence, everyday robots, existence. Imagine trying to meet a friend without friends, perhaps personal growth? I don’t believe so. [email protected] The book of 1 Chronicles is full of we have so few historical birth records place visited so far would have to be Assisi London. He continues to travel to China genetically engineered people, new a clear sense of Tuesday? Five o’ clock? March Finally, I believe that as a follower of Christ, in Italy which you have to experience regularly where he acts as an advisor to a generational perspectives listing for ordinary folk. The only people with Design cults, virtual realities, and things we the 22nd? 2008? Multiply that meeting of mates my time is not even defined as a quantity (for around 7am before the tourists arrive. large contemporary art gallery and lectures familial generations of father to sons. recorded birth dates are the famous. Sparks, London can’t imagine yet? Who is preparing with the billions of similar human transactions that after all in God’s economy, “a thousand years is at universities. Jonathan is married with If the average age of fatherhood If I hopscotch thirteen generations BRANDON DICKERSON [email protected] the church for the next 1,000 years? must take place everyday all over the planet, and as a day and a day is as a thousand years”). Time, three children, is involved in leading his local is 25 years, then this span of 13 into the past, I can land in the year Brandon is a husband, father, filmmaker and For if Christians are not preparing for you begin to sense the chaos that a world without for me should be defined as a quality. I need to church and loves Liverpool Football Club. Illustration generations will reach more than 1000 AD. But why stop there? I can current lead Pastor of Ecclesia, Hollywood. www.jonathankearney.com Zöe Barker the next 1,000 years, then the rest of time would look like! Time is not the enemy. ask myself this question: Is the quality of my time three centuries. But there is another continue for another 13 generations www.spiralfilms.com [email protected] the world will shape our future. But what then can these prosaic musings deep and meaningful and lasting, or is it shallow, www.churchinhollywood.com KEVIN KELLY definition of generation besides father/ of “born before the other is dead” (Rewritten and excerpted from a Fermi short essay) on the nature of time do for us as followers of mundane and stingy? I know which answer I want Kevin is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine ARTISAN INITIATIVES son that might be helpful. We might generations and reach the year 10 AD, PATRICK DODSON Jesus? Frankly, the same as for everyone else on to give and I know how far short I almost always which he helped launch 1993 and editor 9 Adam Street count a lifetime as a generation. A during the lifetime of Jesus. In hours per week: this planet: help us adjust to the truth that time is fall. But that’s the road less travelled, isn’t it? and publisher of the Cool Tools website. Covent Garden generation would go from birth to Emperor Reizei of Japan 950 Sleep = 63 His work has also included publishing and London, WC2N 6AA neither a “given” nor a “due”, but an idea. And So why don’t we take our time, and try and death, birth to death, and so on for Al-Farabi, Islamic philiosopher 870 Kids = 56 editing the Whole Earth Review, co-founding this powerful idea has one great motivating force walk that way? Taking the time to apportion time Research = 16 [email protected] a full 72 years on average. Imagine if Pope Adrian II 792 the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and behind it, and that is the urge for action. In other for holidays, weekend breaks or days off to take Writing, teaching = 15 www.artisaninitiatives.org we were trying to pass on a treasure Malik ibn Anas, Islamic scholar 715 involvement with the launch of the WELL, words, it matters little how I measure out “my time”, care of the home and the loved ones; these can Cooking = 12 and all that was necessary was that Musa bin Nusair, 640 a pioneering online service. He has written +44 (0) 17 3236 3639 in hours, days or weeks; it passes at the same pace help to regulate our irregular patterns of living. In Misc = 6 New Rules for the New Economy and Out one person be alive if even for a North African leader as anybody else’s. What deepens the meaning and this way of living time is not the master, I am. www.patrickdodson.com of Control. Artisan Initiatives Charitable Trust 1056949 day, during the life of another to Emperor Jomei of Japan 593 effect of time passing for a believing soul is how www.kk.org PATERSON JOSEPH Artisan publication, The Time Issue transmit it. As long as a person is born Gregory of Tours, Roman historian 538 I actively use the measure of time I’m allotted. Paterson is an actor with a long line of NATASHA KISSELL © Artisan 2008 before the previous holder dies the Severus, Patriarch of Antioch 512 And that leads me to the crux of my thoughts: television, film and theatre credits. He studied Taught at the Byam Shaw and the Royal Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, generation chain remains unbroken. Shen Yue, Chinese poet 441 If time is a measure given to me for a certain span at LAMDA and his work includes roles in I recently constructed such a King Bleda the Hun 390 Academy. Based in the fashionable Notting NEW INERNATIONAL VERSION Copyright © 1973, of earthly existence, what am I really doing with it? Peep Show, The Beach and most recently The Hill, London a few doors down from the 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by personal generational chain back 1,000 Didymus the Blind, theologian 313 How am I making it “count” as a portion of eternity? Emperor Jones at the Royal National Theatre. great Lucian Freud, Kissell paints in a floor to permission of Hodder and Stoughton, A Division years. I searched for a notable person Maximus, Roman Emporer 270 Let’s get out of the infinite for a minute and ceiling north lit studio. of Hodder Headline Ltd. All rights reserved who died shortly after I was born. A Claudius II, Roman Emperor 213 take a common portion of time in the world of www.natashakissell.com Scripture taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © few minutes on Wikipedia turned up Pang Tong, court advisor 178 an artist: unemployment. 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