Slow Art ?

this is a tumblr collecting various projects and artworks dealing with slowness as a conscious element of art and media production, countering the acceleration of the globalised system of art by fostering meditative, enduring, local or sustainable practices.

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Field_Notes – Deep Time is a week long art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the Deep Time theme.

Field_Notes – Deep Time is in search of artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. The local sub-Arctic nature, ecology, and geology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station will act as a catalyst for the work carried out.

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There's a world of these out there now - pop songs slowed down until they  become contemplative, droney atmospheres.

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Douglas Gordon is reknown for expanding film classics in time by decelerating the frame rate. With this method, he created '24 hour Psycho' and a section from 'The Searchers' by John Ford. This project, entitled '5 year drive by' (see image) aimed at decelerating the film to the length of the story narrated (5 years).

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Blog about slowness in the arts initiated by Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo during ISEA 2011 at which Lawson Jaramillo convened a panel on “Slowness: Responding to Acceleration through Electronic Arts.

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Bruno Nadeau / Jason E. Lewis: Still Standing, 2004-2005

"still standing was produced in collaboration with Jason E. Lewis. It is an interactive installation that invites participants to stay motionless and contemplate its poetic content, a poem titled seeking sedation."

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What is the mobility turn ? (by Forum Vies Mobiles)

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Caspar David Friedrich: Moench am Meer, 1808-1810, Oil on Canvas, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

...is painted slowness/meditation also slow art?

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exhibition showcasing slowly painted paintings. translated from the website: "What happens, if painters paint slowly? Can time become the material of painting? What does this mean for the viewer? ..."

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from website: “This online museum emerged from our own experiences making environmental art and from seeing firsthand some of the challenges facing artists, community groups, nonprofit organizations and arts institutions when it came to presenting and discussing environmental art.”

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Franz Gertsch, Rüschegg (1988/89), Holzschnitt, 1 Platte à 234 x 181 cm, Handabzug 10/18 auf Kumohadamashi Japanpapier von Ivano Heizaburo, 276 x 217 cm, eibengrün, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, © Franz Gertsch

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Dominique Mazeaud The Great Cleansing of the Rio Grande, a pilgrimage, September 17, 1987 to April 17, 1994

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Website presenting curatorial, editorial and artistic projects by Maja and Reuben Fowkes: "Collaborations in curating, research and writing to create translocal knowledge and experience."

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Elisabeth Schimana: Ein Dorf tut nichts / A village does nothing

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Bogomir Ecker "Die Tropfsteinmaschine 1996 - 2496"

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John Cage, Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), 1987, performed on Halberstadt Organ, 2000-2639 (image source: www.nmz.de). First developed for a piano in 1985, Cage adapted the score for an organ in 1987. On an organ, any note can last infinitely long. For the Halberstadt performance, which started in 2000, it was decided to extend the piece to 639 years, because it was in 1361, then 639 years ago, that the world's first monumental organ was built in Halberstadt. which was exactly the age of the organ when it started playing.

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Turrell's Roden Crater: the luxury of taking one's time on an expensive project, toward the end of facilitating slow looking.

"The first major phase of construction, including the movement of over 1.3 million cubic yards of earth to shape the Crater Bowl and the construction of the 854′ East Tunnel and related spaces, is now complete."