MEANTIME I.
What do people do in the meantime? And what that meantime actually is?
I had been concerned with this question during my stay on student exchange program in Kraków, Poland. I was so overloaded with work and getting to know the city, people, culture, and first and foremost – myself, that I wasn't able to manage my tasks in time (until people go to sleep normally). My tasks were beginning to get postponed and I was usually doing them in
the meantime. In this case, meantime was a part of the day which is happening after midnight and before going to sleep,
a time when people somehow procrastinate; when time and space disappear and there is only a human in the meantime what remains. This work was created in that exact time and contains everything – my worries, my problems with time management, my joys and yet unfinished tasks.
It was also a part of my drawing project (although it’s painting), on a topic “Not allowed”. I was hinting at the system on my mother university, that I knew and I was used to working according to it – system that is conceptual and contemporary. On
the contrary, polish one was rather academic, in a way. While the Polish system was more about getting to know the given technique, our system aimed to think the work through as a whole, with a concept behind it.
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