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Dusk bloom clock The Evening Primrose is a clock. This four-minute video, above, shows how it blooms at the close of a summer’s day. If you

#flower clock #temporal design

Sheep eye clock While working on Stereochron Island, I read that herders and farmers in parts of Europe loosely judged the time by their ani

Cautionary notices for clock users Signs to be placed beside clocks, for my Stereochron Island campaign. Cautionary notices for clock users,

A Storm is Blowing / Timekeeper Timekeeper research residency & public programme From January to October 2013, I was Timekeeper in residence

My project for the Petrie Museum explored how time is modelled, mapped, measured and lived. As Timekeeper in residence I devised a programme of collective research by programming and and hosting a series of multi-disciplinary public discussions, events, interviews and workshops with specialists from archaeology, ancient history, archaeology, architecture, science, philosophy and psychology. The Timekeeper project created a model of engagement that has since been adopted widely across UCL culture.

Stereochron Island ARTIST RESIDENCY IN VICTORIA PARK FOR CHISENHALE GALLERY (2013-14) This public research project playfully re-imagined Vic

"This public research project playfully re-imagined Victoria Park in East London as a tiny state, Stereochron Island, that was campaigning to liberate itself from the mechanical clock."

Architect Davidson Norris has designed four Heliotropes. They all very accurately tell civil (solar) time. But their deeper purpose is to migrate the observer's understanding of time from "arranging days and weeks and months in a definite order" to the observation of plant life in order to better understand the "manifestation of life ruled by the time and climate".

#clocks #temporal design #flower clocks #phenology #sundials

(via William Kentridge Interview on 'The Refusal of Time' - YouTube)

#youtube

Kalyani Tupkary’s Even Odd Calenders https://www.kalyanitupkary.com/even-odd/

#Temporal Design #calendars

(via Historical Time - Toril Johannessen) Thanks to Elisabeth Jensen for pointing this out to me!

#Decimal time

(via Silent Agitator – Ruth Ewan)

Silent Agitator is a large clock based upon a detail of an illustration produced by Ralph Chaplin in 1917 for the Industrial Workers of the World union (the IWW). Chaplin’s illustration, bearing the inscription ‘What time is it? Time to organize!’, was reproduced on millions of gummed stickers, known as ‘silent agitators’, that were distributed by union members in workplaces and public spaces across the US. The clock hands bear workers’ clogs or, in French, sabots from which the word sabotage is derived (sabotage was originally used in English to specifically mean disruption instigated by workers). Clocks are a ubiquitous symbol within industrial disputes as hourly wages and the extent of working hours are often the source of argument.

(via Another Time – Ruth Ewan) A nice take on the floral clock, which challenges the modern interpretation of it as a series of flowers opening with mechanical reliability, in favour of understanding local ecological temporalities.

I was speaking to a German curator who complained about the trains not being on time, as they were in Switzerland. I said – ‘You should come to England!’ But that gave me the idea of the station clock being broken. So I started to collect the same clocks, but pulled all the blades out, jumbled them up and reassembled them so they all kept time in perfect harmony and had this metronomic unified sound – but the display was this gobbledygook of abstraction. Then I started to distil that look down into paintings, initially in black and white.

Darren Almond: ‘Life Line’ continues at White Cube, Mason’s Yard to 4 May

(via Darren Almond: Interview of the Month, April 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent)

(via Standard Time) by Mark Formanek

Standard Time is a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual”.

via curated list of clocks by Tega Brain

(via Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art | Intellect)

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.

Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Walid Raad, Dierk Schmidt, Erika Tan, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions since 1990 undertakes a thorough methodological reexamination of the contribution of art to history writing and to its theoretical foundations. The analytical instrument of anachrony comes to the fore as an experimental method, as will (para)fiction, counterfactual history, testimonies, ghosts and spectres of the past, utopia, and the "juridification" of history. Eva Kernbauer argues that contemporary art—developing its own conceptual approaches to temporality and to historical research—offers fruitful strategies for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography, and contemporary art.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license.

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