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How does time feel in the body? How do perception, emotion, and material conditions shape our sense of duration? This course explores time as a sensorial, embodied, and political experience. Students will investigate how artists materialize and manipulate time through moving image, performance, installation, sculpture and sound. Together we will examine how rhythm, repetition, slowness, and stillness structure both experience and meaning. Through the lens of expanded cinema and critical media practice, students will create works that attend to perception as an embodied and situated act. Projects will move across analog and digital processes, including performance, video, projection, sculpture, text and site-based installation. Field trips and in-class exercises will emphasize presence and the somatic registers of time (heartbeat, breath, gesture, and attention) as sites of aesthetic inquiry. Readings and screenings will include texts by Christina Sharpe, Agosto Boal, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Caroline Woolard, Donna Haraway, Rashida Phillips & Black Quantum Futurism, alongside works by Ulysses Jenkins, Senga Nengudi, Ana Mendieta, Chantal Akerman, Tabita Rezaire and others. Through iterative experimentation, students will learn to craft time-based artworks that engage affect, duration, and sensory perception as material forces. The semester culminates in a final project responding to the prompt “Feeling Time,” where students synthesize conceptual, embodied, and technical investigations into a time-based work that makes the invisible structures of perception felt.