d4 N[vi] - chronotope I

The chronotope is conceived through a series of framing notions: the mediating device of the multiplicity of time; the icon/face of the character that pronounce excess and ecstasies; a scripting device that orchestrates the rhapsody of the city. the chronotopes designed are fundamentally a series of moments of epiphora. In the context of Chang’an and particularly the Xi Cang market, the time of the past events experienced by the characters such as artefacts dealer, the honey slicer, the kindergarten children are reconfigured as scripted time. The piece of cloth unfolded and laid out upon the ground as a stage for displaying the antique artefacts; the honey slices reveals the traces of the slicing knife; the shoes neatly placed along the corridor in front of the kindergarten hosts the absence of their subjects. The past time of experience is hidden behind the revealed traces. Between the past time of experience and the past time of the script, a moment of ambiguity is activated, out of this ambiguity, confronting the living present, is the chronotope as epiphora breeding the species of time.