Unruly Moments: Temporal Politics and Imaginaries in Artist Residencies, Retreats, and Gatherings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
My MA project explores decolonial temporalities that challenge the capitalist conception of time as a commodity. Through an investigation of artistic and curatorial practices—specifically artist residencies, retreats, and gatherings that emphasize sustained dialogue, curiosity, and play—my research contrasts these practices with capitalist notions of “use” and “productivity.” These creative forms resist material quantification, lack traditional measurable outcomes, and reject service to any utilitarian end in the global economy. Rather, by operating on the margins of late capitalist and colonial temporalities which prioritize progress and material value, they embody communal temporalities rooted in a refusal of “productive” time. My research consists of both a written component and a research-creation component grounded in community-based research. In the written portion, I analyze how capitalism and colonialism have enacted global, disciplinary temporal regimes based on standardization, linearity, and commodification. These regimes have shaped contemporary understandings of clock time, work time, care and leisure time. At the same time, I examine cracks within these systems—alternative temporalities that emphasize cyclical, autonomous, and multiplicitous notions of time. These temporal frameworks, I propose, offer a means to resist disciplinary measures of capitalist chrono politics that foreclose time and temporality. The research-creation component stems from Composed Escape, an artist residency I organized in the summer of 2023, which brought together five diasporic artists of color in Kingston, Ontario, in an informal gathering that embodied an intimate, non-productive being-in-time. Through reflections, anecdotes, and documentation collected during this residency as well as previous curatorial work, I present a praxis of decolonial temporal imaginings that centers autonomy, experimentation, and sensory ways of being. As I explore cultural practices of residencies, retreats, and gatherings through a temporal lens more broadly, my thesis proposes that by taking such projects seriously, one affirms the value of the intangible as a relational way of being outside of the constraints of mainstream temporality, and as a necessity for reclaiming agency over one’s own time. By distilling lessons from a wide selection of theoretical and research material, my interrogations contribute to a deeper understanding of how reimagining time can offer unruly possibilities for connection and restoration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".