DICHOTOM

The transtemporal state of art is not a temporal status, but a form of intensity that enables art to see through our maximal division between the present and what we have not yet reached in it. This contradictory sense of the presence of something that is composed of dual, incompatible, or even transcendental elements can be called a “dichotom.” A dichotom is one part of something that is originally divided. For example, the dead part of something that was alive, or the living part of something that is already dead. In this sense, a work of art always reaches us as a dichotom. The transtemporal dichotom is that part that remains outside of time and cannot be experienced as time. The dichotomy creates a transtemporal tension, in which the artistic object is both accessible and unattainable. One part of it seems to have already been, and another not yet. One part of it will repeat itself in time, and another will never be again.