Time Together

Time Together (2012/13) was commissioned by the Baltic Triennial as a daily broadcast in twelve episodes. A fictional scenario unravels in parallel and within the daily performances of the Triennial. This methodology finds its origins in the ethnographic cinema of Jean Rouch, where ‘Radical Fabulation’ provides a relation between the ethnographic authentic image and the inauthenticity of cinema.In the case of Time Together, the narrative begins when a young woman misses her stop on the train and arrives at Vilnius station. A woman who watches her from the train offers a lift, which starts a disconcerting relationship between them, hovering between cult entrapment, emergence of a political cell, a predatory sexual drive or indeed, friendship.Each day the episode is introduced by a physicist explaining phenomena related to our Sun and its electromagnetic radiation reaching Earth. His announcements to camera bring the audience into the constellation of levels of representation that Time Together joins up. As we plunge into the narrative we become astutely aware of the mechanisms surrounding our characters, their elusive organisation, the Triennial, the performances, the audience, and the universe.