A Week Without Days

A Week Without Days

A concept for a digital publication born during the isolation. This intuitively (non)curated set of texts was gathered in one week in April 2020. Renouncing rational classification according to topics or themes, it fuses a reader and a diary - a chronological ‘the best of’ record of a reading routine. Divided into hours instead of chapters. The title reflects the shape-shifting quality of time - hours are stretching, and the distinction between days spent in lockdown is melting. Time is a trickster. Keeping a diary in a world without weekends turns into farce. The formats for keeping time we have known till now might turn obsolete tomorrow. The Readiary allows the reader to reach the cited texts through links embedded in the pdf. It also features a poem born out of my research into ways of keeping time, the subjective experiences of passing time and the relationship cyclicality versus progress. It can be listened as a soundscape on soundcloud.com/czprn98/a-week-without-days

As a second part of the bachelor project I developed a series of images. While the mind wanders in the endless depths of the internet, what does the body do? We are products of our environment, we exist as something beyond ourselves. Constrained in lockdown the physical space we are allowed to take up suddenly shrinks. Collage allows for transgressing what is normally visible, tearing pieces away and layering them, merging the self and the surroundings into one. The aesthetic treatment is a response to the dissonance between where we would rather be and where we are.