Clashing Cultures
Frozen cultural times
The world faces wars, natural disasters, pandemics, and socio-political upheavals that shock and disrupt lives, dismantling daily routines and existing order. Despite this, we remain interconnected. Among these global issues, we examine the Russian-Ukrainian war from a spatial perspective. Festering socio-political tensions have escalated into the worst outcome: war. Countless young lives have been lost, deeply impacting both nations’ economies and the global economy
The clash of cultures causes significant changes in the perception of time. More than just the physical passage of time, temporality is subjectively experienced in relation to others, and can be altered or distorted by certain events or circumstances. During extreme events, people often experience temporal lapses, where time seems to stop or slow down. This phenomenon can be caused by individual or collective experiences, and especially in events that involve collective trauma, a distorted cultural sense of time is created.
This needs to be viewed differently from our everyday perspective. While physical time flows objectively and uniformly, cultural time is experienced differently depending on experiences and events. The main events that cause distortions in cultural time are those that result in the perception of time as if it were slowing down or stopping.
Clashing Cultures
Frozen cultural times
