In Time
On Time
Set against Sydney Observatory’s timeless backdrop, On Time is a Powerhouse series exploring the philosophy of time. Across four conversations journalist Rachael Hocking engages with leading thinkers to examine how time governs our world by measuring moments, defining cycles and shaping our deepest sense of self.
‘Saṃsāra is that cycle of birth, life and death from which we are taught that we are to escape through karma or through other forms of yoga in which we realise our own divinity.’
In Time
What does it mean to live across multiple temporalities at once? How do our memories, imaginations and lineages shape our experience of time? In this conversation on being In Time Professor Dean Rickles and novelist Shankari Chandran reflect on the complexities of moving psychologically, culturally and ethically through time.
Featuring Speakers
‘Time is clearly a piece of perennial knowledge that we all have stuck in us somewhere because it arises over and over everywhere, across time, across geography and culture.’
Photography Commission
Photographer Kai Wasikowski was commissioned by Powerhouse to produce a series of portraits of the On Time program speakers and a photographic study of Sydney Observatory, situating these contemporary voices within a site shaped by science, timekeeping and colonial history.
About Photographer
Kai Wasikowski is an artist working across photography, video and sculpture, based on Gadigal Land / Sydney, Australia. His practice is informed by a familial connection to landscape photography and environmental conservation and critically examines how colonial ways of seeing shape ideas of land, resources, possession and belonging.
