Project 023. Timed 1+2
"Where all possibilities exist – there are no longer any possibilities” (Beuys). Where all time exists – there can be no time. If we make machines into our idols we will become – machines. The mass media out-put grows larger and larger. Clever teams work in shifts in order to find new ways to access your very time. So my question goes – “Is there capacity to think one soul original thought?" In a timeless environment, with the primordial force of a bale of straw as a background, I mounted 100 station clocks as a reminder of mortality and the continual cyclic event which is near us.
The indoor exhibition consisted of six bales of straw where I had assembled TV monitors. I showed four video films where I zapped through the channels aimlessly. I had placed the channels in a sequence of various ways, something which changed the feeling in the films tangibly. One exciting parenthesis is that our memory functions in such a way that we remember different images depending on which images are shown before or after a main image. For instance the sequence could be – news + porn + children’s program + advert + bingo lottery + thriller etc. One of the films showed censured film clips in a long sequence, with the last film showing only waves breaking on a beach. Sound effects accompanied the exhibition; the sound of a heart beating above a clock ticking filled the room. The mixture of the sound from the TV, together with the other sounds, raised the tension.
The exhibitions took place at Gislövs Stjärna, as well as in Simrishamn Art Gallery.
