Silvia Federici is an Italian-American researcher, educator and activist in the autonomous feminist tradition. She is the author of a number of books, including Caliban and the Witch (Autonomedia, 2004).

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri are artists, poets, activists and political thinkers working closely together, occasionally within the 16 Beaver collective.

Rana Issa a writer, organizer and translator based in Oslo. Her book The Modern Arabic Bible was published in 2023 by Edinburgh University Press.

Ayman Azraq is a Palestinian writer and director born and raised in Bethlehem. He obtained a master's degree in fine arts from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His works include the film Suspended Time (2014).

Mustafa Mohanna is a Palestinian artist who lives in Gaza and works with sculpture and video.

Joen Vedel is a visual artist, writer and researcher, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and currently a PhD fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim.

Joen Vedel has over the course of decades recorded many different protest movements, from Occupy Wall Street in New York, the Yellow Vest movement in France, the Kurdish feminist movement, protests against austerity measures in Greece and the uprising in Brazil in response to structural violence. Shying away from iconic, easily digestible images, he instead centered on what exceeds the event of the revolts: waiting periods, cleanups and disappointments, and the aftermath.

As a continuation of this documentary methodology, Vedel has developed an experimental approach where he adopts live video editing technologies and techniques—habitually used by mainstream media to streamline narratives—to instead examine the dynamism and multi-layered complexity of ongoing political unrest. To reject the historian’s demand of establishing a clear start and end point of the revolts as well as to insist that they are present even if they are out of sight.

The basis for the exhibition is an intensive production during its first three days, where live-editing sessions combine live taping in collaboration with multiple collaborators, found footage, Vedel’s own recordings, and the presence of the audience. Over the remainder of the show’s duration, three episodes entitled Endings, Intervals, and Beginnings will be screened in Kunstnernes Hus’ cinema and online. Giving emphasis to the multiple and overlapping protest movements erupting across the globe in recent history, NOW-TIME TV interrogates the revolt as a present condition, connecting the potentials, desires, and missed opportunities of the recent past as well as history in the making.

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The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Norwegian Photographic Fund, and the Fund for Sound and Image. Image above: Courtesy of the artist.