Commissioned by
Akademie Schloss Solitude
Stuttgart, Germany
Solitude Journal 4
Time After Time
The fourth iteration of Solitude Journal, Time After Time is based on the perceptions of time inscribed in and reproduced through colonial systems, as a decolonial approach to the length and/or parameters of time. Writer and editor Dzekashu MacViban was invited to develop a theme for this edition with co-editors Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi.
For the cover of Solitude Journal 4, Time After Time, Beton.Studio processed a drawing from the series Studies in Aqueous Time by former fellow Zahra Malkani. We would like to thank the artist for the possibility to use one of her drawings as the cover subject. Reproductions of the original drawings can be found in the journal.
Kala
Chakra
Temporality in Contemporary Hindi Poetry
Kalachakra gathers temporal hacks
within an archive of translated Hindi poetry
spanning epochs. Synthesizing
fragments in Hindi poetics with contrapuntal plead
and spirituality, BaRiya’s anthology
represents language’s quantum
and inherited nature. Or with what they describe
as »chants and lore emanating from language’s dips
into temporal devices,
of disrememberment, of devotion,
of ruins, of elsewhere(s),
of waiting,
of delays;
of restfulness.«
- Solitude Journal 4, Time after Time,
Akademie Schloss Solitude