Hubris of absenteeism

Abstract

Harnessing Walter Benjamin’s [2009. One way street and other writing. London: Penguin Classics] Eingedenken and Jetztzeit along with the co-author’s notion of the Absent (a term in impossible redemption) into insurgent allegorical devices, are useful in reassembling reflections of ‘Time Flies’: a treasure hunt led performance project co-created by the co-authors between 2008 and 2018. The reflective essay is made in three parts (or theatrical acts) and prescribes to three themes: (i) absence, (ii) foolishness and (iii) remembrance. These three parts occur through an embodiment of absent authorship, made as a point of considering how the project and ideas collate into allegorical absence in reconsidering colonial space in the post-colonial city.