TIME COMMONS
时间公域
CURATE · SEALTAN PROJECT
Sealtan Project
Let today’s judgments enter time.
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Begin with the person.
The Sealtan Project develops through sustained research on individual artists. Each case brings together writing, documents, fieldwork, and subsequent research, and continues to evolve as new material and judgments emerge.
HOW IT WORKS
Writing and sealing.
Writing gives provisional form to research and judgment. Sealing assigns those judgments a number and a point in time, leaving them open to being revisited.
01 · WRITING
Writing as Curating
Case writing develops around people, works, documents, and field encounters. Judgment and the structure of the research are revised through the writing itself.
Explore the writing method→02 · SEALING
Sealing and Revisit
Texts, materials, and judgments are held at a defined point in time, then reopened later for comparison and further research.
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FIELD · BEIJING · 2025.08.16
Four Seasons Beijing
On August 16, 2025, the Sealtan Project held its first public action at Four Seasons Beijing. Writing, images, participant records, and the discussions that followed became the first body of material for continued research and future revisits.
View the Four Seasons Beijing field record→
ONGOING
The research continues.
West Notes
Field notes anchored in Ottawa, following institutions, people, spaces, and the ways they operate in practice.
Images & Records
Images, process documentation, and related material create a record that can be revisited alongside the written research.
SEALTAN PROJECT
The Sealtan Project continues to add new cases, material, field encounters, and revisits. Research subjects are updated through the People system.
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