HOW FAST CAN YOU

TAKE YOUR TIME?

Attaining authorship over time.

"HOW FAST CAN YOU TAKE YOUR TIME?": The question originates from a film by Gus Van Sant inspired by a short story by William S. Burroughs. It describes a moment of extreme compression, just before an action becomes unavoidable. The protagonist has only one single chance. He must take it without being able to prepare for what lies ahead.

This is not about a banal procedure of decision optimization, but about the question of how to attain authorship over one’s own time: the ability to take time at the right moment, to be present, and to act with precision even under volatile conditions. This is a quality familiar to skilled improvising musicians—when time cannot be “waited out,” when no margin remains except to act, and to do so as appropriately as possible: in an uncertain environment, in interplay with people whose actions and reactions are often not 100% predictable.

CHRONARTA works precisely at this threshold: where time does not simply pass, but is held under tension and calls for a clear and deliberate setting, as well as practical know-how.