This month, we invited artists, writers, and interdisciplinary practitioners to submit work that explores the liminality of time—those thresholds where past, present, and future blur, overlap, or dissolve.
Time is often imagined as linear, measurable, and fixed. Yet our lived experience tells a different story: moments stretch and contract; memory reshapes chronology; anticipation folds the future into the now.
There are spaces where time hesitates—twilight hours, transitional seasons, states of waiting, endings that feel like beginnings. These are liminal zones, where certainty loosens, and transformation becomes possible.
Artist: Josh Rendell
http://galacticwomble.teemill.com
Dali would be proud
Description: A somewhat literal interpretation of the instability of time, with a clock tower that has itself succumbed to the fragility of time. Reminding me of the Dali melting clocks, this local clock tower stopped working, and the hands of time started to eat themselves into each other, eventually causing time to stop on this face, while the other 3 faces still operate as usual.
Artist: Charles Eades
https://charleseades.co.uk/
Don’t Go in the Room
Description
This is a haunted house-themed video art piece that explores the liminal zone of an empty room, inhabited by restless and violent spirits. It challenges reality and perception while exploring the psychological impressions and uncertainties left by traumatic memories.
Artist: Arata Nakamura
NO FACE - 60 / 90
Description: In 1969, The Beatles stood on a rooftop and sang “Get back to where you once belonged,” as if lamenting the passing of their own era. That image would later become myth. In 1994, Oasis released “Whatever,” singing “I’m free to be whatever I choose,” and ignited the world with a vision of rock ’n’ roll that embraced change without fear. In traditional Japanese Noh theatre, the mask of Okina represents something sacred, with a meaning that does not waver, while the Ko-omote mask expresses something ambiguous, whose meaning shifts depending on the viewer. By placing two masks that never appear together within the same Noh performance side by side, this work overlays the relationship between what becomes mythologised in rock culture and what continues to be reinterpreted through time, while reflecting the temporal distance between the 1960s and the 1990s.
Art film time road
Artist: Koki Kisawa
https://www.asuka1992.com/en/
on the road
Description: Duration: 7 min 41 sec Genre: Fiction / Experimental Film Concept Time is a mysterious thing. Even within the same span of time, it may hold little meaning for one person, while for another it may be profoundly significant—perhaps even a matter of life itself. Each individual experiences time differently. The boundary between one body and another is also a boundary between different experiences of time. This work explores the relationship between time and the boundaries of the human body through the lens of reproductive medicine.