Deep Time: The Art of Time

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

Prx, Philosophy, Knowledge, Wpr, Ttbook, Wisconsin, Society & Culture

4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Some artists work with pen and ink, some use brushes and paint. And some make art out of time. Meet some contemporary artists who are finding new ways to bridge the distance between us and the furthest reaches of time.

Deep Time is a series all about the natural ecologies of time from To The Best Of Our Knowledge and the Center for Humans and Nature. We'll explore life beyond the clock, develop habits of "timefulness" and learn how to live with greater awareness of the many types of time in our lives.

Original Air Date: February 15, 2025

Interviews In This Hour:
Crafting cosmic art through deep time — What if clocks were synced to the flow of a river? — Capturing a symphony of time in a dawn chorus

Guests:
Katie Paterson, Jonathon Keats, Alex Braidwood

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0:00.0	If you've been feeling like the world is coming at you too fast, if the urgency and volume of the news is keeping you on edge,
0:09.0	this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge is all about shifting tempos, regaining perspective by taking a much, much longer view.
0:19.0	Coordinating Universal Time Like, e longer view.
0:24.6	Like eons long.
0:28.5	I'm Anne Strange Champs, and we're picking up our Deep Time series today.
0:34.9	We'll be talking with contemporary artists at the forefront of imagining new ways to perceive time.
0:38.8	Keep listening.
0:44.6	From WPR.
0:49.2	It's to the best of our knowledge.
0:50.6	I'm Anne Strangeamps. Technology was supposed to give Strange Champs.
0:59.0	Technology was supposed to give us more time.
1:02.0	Instead, it feels like we have less and less.
1:07.0	Markets and information today move at the speed of light. News cycles are frenetic.
1:09.0	Attention is fragmented. As a society, we're losing our ability to think long-term.
1:14.6	And individually, we're losing our connection to the deeper, more natural rhythms of time.
1:20.6	At least, that's how it feels to me.
1:28.9	So how do we find our way back to something bigger?
1:33.6	Meet Katie Patterson.
1:35.6	She makes art out of deep time.
1:39.9	What's the oldest material you've ever touched or worked with?
1:45.0	Wow.
1:46.0	So it was material that I crushed up from a certain kind of meteorite that's older, we believe,
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