Postponed until further notice.

Join us for a conversation with time.Set within the context of Betelhem’s solo exhibition, Rock Standard Time (RST), artist Betelhem Makonnen and University of Texas professor Dawna Ballard will facilitate a collective discussion about our society’s current mentality around time and how our temporal practices and attitudes impact our lives.

Betelhem Makonnen researches questions on perception, presence, and place within a trans-temporal and trans-locative topology that operates on the relational dynamics of diasporic consciousness. In addition to her artistic practice, she is on the curatorial team of Fusebox Festival and co-editor of the online arts periodical Written & Spoken. She is also a founding member of the Austin-based contemporary arts collaborative Black Mountain Project.

Dr. Dawna Ballard, associate professor of organizational communication and technology in the Moody College of Communication, is an expert in chronemics—the study of time as it is bound to human communication. She researches what drives our pace of life and its impact on the communication practices and long term vitality of organizations, communities, and individuals.