'Timing Is Everything' at UCSD's University Art Gallery

Timing is Everything is an exhibition that explores the ways that built space situates us in time through phases of a conversation between moving images, photographs, and text.

Over the course of eight weeks, an exhibition of video installations by Charles G. Miller, Hong-An Truong & Dwayne Dixon, Cauleen Smith, and Uriel Orlow will rotate in and out of the gallery in conversation with The Exhibition of a Necessary Incompleteness, a constant exhibition of photos, text and videos by Joseph Redwood-Martinez and essay contributions by Ayala Levin, Alexandru Balasescu, and Demilit. 

Initiating this conversation, Redwood-Martinez investigates the broader implications of deliberately postponed construction: inhabited buildings continually in the process of becoming.  His project thus provokes alternate understandings and experiences of time, in space that is always being built. If conditions of past, present, and future become less distinct, how does this affect our notions of history - "time" in the collective singular?

In conversation with the questions raised by Redwood-Martinez's project, Timing is Everything introduces four video installations as epistemological tools with which to examine other instances of architecture and corresponding notions of time, memory, and history. As another medium that constructs space and the only experience where time is given as a perception, moving images act as apt poetic interlocutors.

The premiere of each video installation will be accompanied by a breakfast reception and public program with the artists and their guests with various backgrounds in architecture, urbanism, sound, philosophy, and archaeology.