Sreshta Rit Premnath and ALAgroup on Time and Eclipse

Sreshta Rit Premnath addresses a letter to ALAgroup members Maria Rosa, Maria Pia, Sara, and Marco, reflecting on time and two upcoming obscuration events. He references Roland Barthes' concept of pre-method as an expandable preparation time, with method as a mirage always deferred, making the present an impossible time between never again and later. Premnath connects this to the film "Werckmeister Harmonies" by Béla Tarr, where protagonist Valushka explains a total solar eclipse to drunk workers who remain unimpressed. He draws parallels to the "Great American Eclipse" as a political statement, but notes celestial movements ignore human history. He proposes using the eclipse to discover other ways of sensing the world, like "listening to the absence of light" and perceiving distant times, such as the night in Rome. The letter is published in Artribune Magazine #39 and references ALAgroup (Accademia Libera delle Arti), a contemporary art and education platform founded in 2012, continuing work from 2010 with esterno22.