For German philosopher Martin Heidegger, time is not simply something we move through, but the horizon through which the world becomes intelligible. Artist Daniel Crooks offers a striking visual analogue to this idea; treating temporality not as a backdrop to experience, but as a force that shapes how space, movement and reality are perceived.

This July, The Calile Hotel and the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) present a special one-night-only Calile Culture event with one of Australia’s most significant moving image artists. Hosted on the hotel’s open-air rooftop, the evening will feature Crooks’ latest commission for award-winning architecture firm m3architecture.

Working across video, photography and sculpture, Crooks stretches, compresses and fractures the image, unsettling the familiar and reorienting perception. Set against the Brisbane skyline, the rooftop presentation places his investigation of place, duration and motion in direct dialogue with the city itself.

The screening will be followed by a conversation led by IMA Director Robert Leonard, who will join Crooks and m3architecture Director Michael Banney to trace the meeting point between art, architecture, design and theory through the shared question of how we experience place in time.