This Temporal Inheritance
This textual-to-video work by Antonia Pont was commissioned as part of All School LAB in October 2022 – responding to the provocation of ‘Inheritances’.
This Temporal Inheritance proposes that one of our less-explicit inheritances (that we all receive without noticing it) is our relations to time – to rhythm, waiting, expectancy and so on.
The piece builds on Antonia's work on philosophical conceptions of temporality that allow for transformation with stability.
Antonia Pont
Antonia Pont is a widely published author of fiction, essay, poetry and theory. She tackles questions of time, atmosphere, weather, transformation, memory, unknowing and the future. She has made work for exhibition and performance, collaborating on local and international projects. A long-time worker in movement and stillness, she writes and thinks in parallel with a yoga practice and is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (est. 2009). She is Associate Professor at Deakin University and lives with gratitude on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Selected works include The Memory Library (2024, fiction), You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel (2019, poetry), A Philosophy of Practising (2021, philosophy/practising theory) and numerous essays (Literary Hub, The Lifted Brow).