I Have No Time (1983[1979])

Stilinović, Mladen

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“Despite Mladen’s instruction to read this book when I have no time, when I am very busy, I first ‘properly’ read I have no time when I had a lot of time, while lying in bed in a hospital in the early 1990s. It was then that I began to understand that this small book was more than some small joke. I have no time, I have no time, I have no time… is for me a kind of mantra, to stop and think about what and why I am doing something, anything…

Paradoxically the pursuit of laziness requires an active engagement in stealing back time. That activity becomes harder and harder when time seems to accelerate and is consumed by an endless quota of daily tasks (even supposedly art associated) and so this little book, first hand-written in 1978, becomes more and more important (to read properly) through time, especially when you are very busy…” 

– Kerrie Poliness

A reprint of Stilinović’s book ‘Neman vremena’ created in 1978 and 1978, for this current reprint an earlier reprint from 1983 was digitally scanned; the pages feature blocks of text consisting of the phrase ‘I have no time’ repeated over and over, with an afterword by Kerrie Poliness.

Saddle stitched, stapled, 22,5 x 15 cm, 72 not numbered pages, ed/500, Re-print #3, n.p. 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9873555-7-7