After a recent historical discovery where scientists documented the existence of gravitational waves that modify contemporary notions of space-time, abraso, the Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices, decided to imagine a present in which time, distorted by the affectations of those gravitational waves, accelerates immeasurably. 

Based on empirical, emotional, and experimental methodologies, we want to carry out a study to measure and resist, physically and affectively, this hurried time. For this purpose, Abraso's artists have invented the project “Interferometer: measurements and mediations of a slower space-time”, a place to think and activate delaying strategies counteracting the present speed in which we inhabit. Intertwining reality, history, and science fiction, this proposal displays a collective learning device to invite different audiences to imagine ways of inhabiting our present, thus speculating leisurely on possible futures.

Through fictional exercises and critical reflections, this artwork presents a stage to confront the hegemonic notion of time, and its implications in an era determined by the exploitation of resources, consumption, and overproduction. In our current technocentric and hypercapitalist world, Abraso proposes a meeting space of slowness and laziness to relieve an existential eagerness that has been hastily consuming the space of our time.