William Kentridge, Primary
Philip Miller, Composer
Catherine Meyburgh, Video Editor
Peter Galison, Dramaturge
The Refusal of Time, 2012

Artwork Info

Artwork title
The Refusal of Time
Artist names
William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh, Peter Galison
Date created
2012
Classification
video installation
Medium
five-channel video with sound, 30 min., with steel megaphones and breathing machine "elephant"
Dimensions
dimensions variable
Date Acquired
2013
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Jointly owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift and the K. Hart Smith Trust) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (purchased with Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and Wendy Fisher Gifts and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler 21st Century Art Fund)
Copyright
© 2012 William Kentridge. All rights reserved.
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2013.250.1-3
Artwork Status
Not on view at this time.

Essay

Rudolf Frieling on The Refusal of Time

By Rudolf Frieling, January 2017

Media arts curator Rudolf Frieling discusses the “maze of cross-references and exploding trajectories” that defines William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time.

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In this video produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, South African artist William Kentridge explores the question of what time looks like

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