DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and a Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Wolfgang Ernst is a Professor for Media Theories at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the author of numerous books, including Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

Jacob Lund is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. He is the author of The Changing Constitution of the Present (Sternberg Press, 2022).

Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist and writer living and working in Oslo. They are part of the Institute for Scene Experiments.

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.