CHRONARTA addresses people for whom a reflective relationship with time matters and supports them in developing and applying their own practices with impact.
The project has emerged from many years of practice across diverse contexts—under varying conditions, in different places, and in collaboration with people from a wide range of backgrounds. Over time, work in teaching, research, and mediation contexts revealed that the musical engagement with the phenomenon of time unfolds effects far beyond the artistic sphere.
The point of departure is a transdisciplinary practice working with complex rhythmic structures and polyrhythms from different time cultures. In lectures, workshops, and seminars—often deliberately situated outside academic art institutions—this work has been continuously tested and further developed.
Across very different group constellations, a similar resonance repeatedly became apparent:
whether medical students, psychiatrists, executives, diplomats, or UN peacekeepers, engaging with time practice sharpens perception of one’s own relationship to time and of acting in and with time. Not as a fashionable method of optimization, but as a conscious engagement with time as a proactively shapeable material.
CHRONARTA offers a unique learning, reflection, and experiential framework for individuals, teams, as well as organizations and institutions seeking to consciously examine and further develop their relationship to time.
It addresses people who wish to acquire time-based competencies in order to shape their actions with greater clarity, responsibility, and impact in an increasingly complex everyday reality—both individually and collectively.
Work with individuals focuses on the conscious alignment of one’s own relationship to time. Teams engage with CHRONARTA to reflect on their temporal interactions and to restructure collaboration. Organizations and institutions draw on its formats to review and further develop temporal processes and to remain capable of action even under volatile conditions.
CHRONARTA works with the diverse techniques of time-based arts, particularly contemporary music, jazz, and various art musics of world cultures. These highly refined artistic practices are released from their original contexts and reflected into a wide range of practical fields. The focus is not on the art forms themselves, but on the temporal principles embodied within them and their practically transferable applications.
The situationally developed program of a Time Practice LAB integrates artistic practice, research, and teaching into a transdisciplinary process format of time design. This format is embedded in social, institutional, and specialized professional contexts and is consistently oriented toward the demands of intersubjective action in increasingly complex constellations.
The aim of a LAB is to develop a deepened understanding of what time-based competencies are and how they can be cultivated.
Participants experience, for example, in a practice-oriented way what "Timing" in the work of an excellent jazz drummer actually entails: the precise interplay of time perception, decision, and response within a collective context and across extremely short temporal intervals. These principles can be transferred to other highly complex situations, such as the coordination of a surgical team before, during, or after an operation, or the interplay of a professional kitchen team preparing for a new season with a new menu.
Another central field of work is the engagement with "Multiple Way Independence": the ability to perceive, manage, and shape multiple independent layers of action simultaneously. Through musical practices, it becomes experientially clear how this principle can be transferred to the demands of multitasking situations across different professional contexts—from civil aviation to parallel responsibility management in complex organizations.
The outcome of a Time Practice LAB is always the tangible presence of newly acquired or sharpened time-based competencies: the ability to perceive complex situations in their temporal dynamics with differentiation, to structure them with appropriate composure, and to shape them proactively—situationally, individually and collectively, and with sustainable impact.
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