Conference for Chrononauts

Conference for Chrononauts

Moray Art Centre is proud to hosts Edinburgh-based artist Robert Powell, in new surreal exhibition, with support from Moray based artist Gillian Neish, from 1st September – 1st October 2023

Come and explore the arcane and the speculative unearthed through printmaking and collage. There has only ever been one Conference for Chrononauts but some attendees have gone every year of their adult lives. They go to meet chrononauts who travel through time via their clothes, or who have attempted to record every utopia that has ever existed.

Chrononauts discuss buildings where time flows at different speeds through different rooms, they reflect on how quarantine can stick time still and they make plans to retire to Greyghar, the nursing home at the end of time.  

Artist Robert Powell and philosopher Alasdair Richmond explore the ideas involved in Alasdair’s work with the philosophy of time travel. Conference for Chrononauts explores philosophical concepts and conundrums in a way that’s accessible, engaging and beautiful to look at.

Science hasn’t yet come up with a way to travel through time, but the philosophy of time travel makes sure that all the intellectual problems have been thoroughly thought through for when it does. 

ABOUT

Learn more about the artists

Edinburgh based artist Robert Powell employs an encyclopedic exploration of the philosophical concepts and conundrums of time-travel.

Previously he has constructed a suite of etchings showing the history of the world from the very beginning to the very end (in sixteen chapters), a search engine who only wants to talk about itself, and a cross-section sculpture of an entire city. Currently he is working on a large clock that doesn’t tell the time, but it will hopefully describe the nature of time. He has won various awards and his work has been shown extensively at home and abroad and is in many collections.  

ABOUT

Learn more about the artists

Edinburgh based artist Robert Powell employs an encyclopedic exploration of the philosophical concepts and conundrums of time-travel.

Previously he has constructed a suite of etchings showing the history of the world from the very beginning to the very end (in sixteen chapters), a search engine who only wants to talk about itself, and a cross-section sculpture of an entire city. Currently he is working on a large clock that doesn’t tell the time, but it will hopefully describe the nature of time. He has won various awards and his work has been shown extensively at home and abroad and is in many collections.