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title: "Travelling back to the past – or is it the future?"
date: 2019-06-21
last_modified: 2024-11-16T16:58:45+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/double-feature-gerard-byrne-video-art-context-en/"
description: "In his video work “In Our Time” artist Gerard Byrne shows that time is just a cultural construct. And the present an idea that is not as reliable as it seems."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/header_Schirn_Presse_Double_Feature_Juni_Gerard_Byrne_In_Our_Time_still-1.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Travelling back to the past – or is it the future?