iuliana varodi

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time space and poverty

In any place of the world, at the corner of a street, someone may stop you asking “one dollar please?” or “one rupee?” You may think they are poor, feel pity for them and accordingly to your mood and change in the pocket, give them or not a piece of currency. Have you ever felt that these people, the homeless, have something we don’t have? We, who are always in a hurry to get somewhere, to get something (done)… How does their timespace look like? Ain't we actually missing our own spacetime as badly as they miss that one dollar / rupee?

How much would we need to pay in order to get for ourselves the time and space that we would like to dedicate to love (or art)? From whom would we have to buy it? Our employers? Our schools? The state, the social security system or the labor market? Our wives and children or parents and neighbors? From ourselves? Could we get it in another way than buying? Could we claim it? Or beg for it, if we don’t have enough money to buy it ? Beg from whom? Beg from ourselves? (let’s try):

“Iuliana, would you please give me some time and space please?”
“What do you need it for?”
“I want to make a portrait of the future man dying of lack of time and space.”
“Who do you think wants to see this?”
“Man themselves, it would be like a new type of mirror, that shows other sides of reality, from a time still to come. Not that they want but it may serve them.”
“Sorry, I don’t have, I need to work to earn my bread, go ask somewhere else. But you should know, begging doesn’t work in this society”.
“What then?”
“Applying.”
“What’s that?”
“Sort of begging but you’ll need a sharp discourse and a smart portfolio to convince them you deserve it”.
“But we all deserve it, why pretend I deserve it more then others? Begging seems more honest to me.”
“As you want, but it won’t work”.
“I’ll try anyway, it’s part of the concept.”

“Sir, Would you please give me some time and space? One year only.”
“What are your plans, your strategies? Can you show some work?
“I want to make an installation, a portrait of the future man dying of lack of time and space. I could come along with some work, we could have a talk, if you have some time and space.”

(sort of fiction)