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# M+ Museum has some thoughts on the nature of time
- URL: https://www.kinoki.co/m-plus-museum-sensing-time/
- Published: 2025-01-23T00:47:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-23T00:47:10.000Z
- Description: M+ is organizing a day of events as part of Avant-Garde Now, a series that engages with current trends in moving image practices. This year's edition will focus on the subject of time.
- Author: Marija Olga
- Tags: News, Asia, museum, film, video art, performance

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M+ Museum, a major art institution in Hong Kong dedicated to contemporary visual culture, is organizing a day of events centered around the artistic perception of time as part of Avant-Garde Now, a regular series instituted by the museum that engages with current trends in artists’ moving image practices. [This year's edition, titled "Sensing Time,](https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/cinema/avant-garde-now/avant-garde-now-sensing-time/?ref=kinoki.co)" will revolve around the issue of time and its relation to the medium of moving images, while also inaugurating a year-long investigation of time as a venue for artistic expression and subject for contemplation. It will also serve as a prelude to the next edition of the [Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, scheduled to open in May 2025](https://aagff.mplus.org.hk/en/?ref=kinoki.co).

The day's events will consist of screenings, lectures and artistic experiments by four artists – Raqs Media Collective, Takashi Makino, Tzuan Wu and Morgan Wong – who have been invited by M+ Museum to present their research into how time affects the perception of reality by the artist and the observer. The event starts off with [Raqs Media Collective](https://works.raqsmediacollective.net/?ref=kinoki.co), who present two thought-provoking interventions. In *Knots*, [attendees are invited to playfully engage with different modalities of temporal experience](https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/exhibitions/226-raqs-media-collective-come-undone/?ref=kinoki.co), disrupting the traditional perception of time as being ‘unidirectional’. It is followed in the afternoon by a black-boarding inscription act titled *We Are Knotted, We Come Undone*, which elicits an active debate about how we dwell in time.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/98/98986ef2-474e-4f7c-82a5-62d592178e78/content/images/2025/01/wong_morgan_i_got_time.webp)

Morgan Wong, **I Got Time*, 2013\. Courtesy of the artist.

In the program "Unfolding the unknown trace," [Tzuan Wu](https://tzuanwu.net/?ref=kinoki.co) brings together a selection of contemporary analogue experimental films by Taiwanese creators, who employ a variety of techniques to expose the more tactile aspects of moving images. This curated collection not only presents the ways in which filmmakers tailor their works, but also places a subtle emphasis on [the ability of the cinematic medium to encode and decode an experience of time](https://tzuanwu.net/The-Siren-Project?ref=kinoki.co) as fashioned into a cogent narrative. Morgan Wong follows with the lecture-performance [*Some Thoughts on Time Dilation*](https://www.mill6chat.org/morgan-wong/?ref=kinoki.co), wherein he establishes a connection between scientific analyses of time and his own personal experiences of time as embodied in the five short films that accompany this lecture.

The final event of this one-day manifestation features Takashi Makino, who will screen a selection of five of his films followed by a performance by the artist. Takashi's practice displays a virtuosity with analogue and digital forms, wherein he manipulates sound and music and employs editing techniques such as foreground superimposition, layering, and multiple exposure to invoke a more personal and sensorial perception of temporal landscapes. 

Sensing Time will open to the public on February 15, 2025 at House 1 of the Moving Image Centre at M+ Museum. Support for this event is provided by Chanel. More information about this and other events at M+ Museum can be found on [their site](https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/?ref=kinoki.co).