Silje Iversen Kristiansen
Weekly Planner I

Weekly Planner I and Weekly Planner II chronicle Norwegian artist Silje Iversen Kristiansen’s experience of daily life between 2021 and 2023. Containing a vast series of drawings based on smartphone photographs taken over the span of two years, both books provide a deep awareness of time, in part through the depiction of relaxed moments that consider daily activities and routines such as gardening, cooking, reading, socialising, and thinking.

Importantly, with each publication productively rearranging ‘clock time’ or the mechanical limits imposed by diaries, digital alerts and alarms through the skewing of the calendar format, Weekly Planner I and II suggest different possibilities for modes of existence in subtle and provocative ways.

As such, Iversen Kristiansen’s intimate gestures become a rumination on duration, and a wider philosophical investigation how we experience time in contemporary life.

As the German writer Jan Verwoert suggests:
Iversen Kristiansen offers no easy escape from how little or how much time there might be. She has the guts to look time in the eye and show how it moves. Without flinching, she records the many ways that time passes or accumulates, using simple clear outlines. In doing so, she shuns the default style that twentieth century art held for engaging ‘real time’, for example, the air of deep seriousness and clouds of cigarette smoke that existentialists would surround themselves with to make people understand that they were getting ‘real’ about Being and Time. Instead, Iversen Kristiansen picks her tools from two other champions of time who had no taste for sombre heroics: Charles Schulz and Simone Weil.
From ‘Time Born from Unruly Lines’.

Verwoert has written a special essay on the subject of how multiple temporalities relate to Iversen Kristiansen’s work for each publication. ‘For Now’ appears in Weekly Planner I, while ‘Time Born from Unruly Lines’ is contained in Weekly Planner II.

Edited by Andrew Hunt, Silje Iversen Kristiansen, Jan Verwoert, and Tris Vonna-Michell

Designed by Silje Iversen Kristiansen

Essay by Jan Verwoert

Softback, 152 pages, 142 b+w illustrations, 180mm x 120mm

This book is co-published with Mount Analogue

ISBN: 978-1-910516-34-8

Artist’s book printed in a limited run of 200 numbered copies