Time-r — See Lab

Short description:

Time-r

There is no time. (I was told
today)
What time is it? When shall we meet? How long is I love you forever…
Look at the sun & moon,
dialling day & night.

Time-r: Isn’t a moment uncountable?

Time-r is an aural installation by Kim Ho & Remco Jongejan, reflecting on the multiplicity of time. In this work, questions on our relationship with time are reframed and pondered, not verbally, but experientially. Communicating through a bodily-oriented experience, this work invites visitors to mind their own time, listen to it at their own pace.

As clock-time system becomes pre-dominant in modern social structure, we (when participated in a society) become habitual to arranging life in segments without aware. Often, time is conceived as a countable object: sometimes a commodity, sometimes a governor of our daily routine. The censorship of time seems out of our hands, while the time in our hands seems like a limited resource, always out of stock.

We become a living time-r.

Welcome to all (time-rs) who’d like to experience a moment of freedom.

We rarely see light itself, but what light shines upon. Is time, as far as we have experienced socially and culturally, not a mere reflection of time? Can we infer time through experiencing different “time”s? What are the possible relationships between a human-being and time: am I the perceiver, the perceived, or somewhere in between? In quest, this project embarks on creating a space where a multispectral temporal experience is possible, both metaphorically and physically, a place where multiple mirrors of time stood against/with/opposite one another where one’s attention are the eyes to sharpen the image. In this work, time is a reflection is explored as a spatial metaphor.

Time-r is constructed as a space composed of multiple “timers” embedded in different materiality. Noteworthily, here, time is not regarded as a life-less, ever-passing substance which leads our everyday decisions to a certain direction—it is treated as a living entity, with whom we can have a dynamic dialogue with. The language we use is not verbal, rather, it is experiential. Walking into this work, a visitor establishes bodily relations with the space through a heightened notion of various temporalities, facilitated by the elements that fortifies the space.

By situating time from an outsider’s perspective to an insider’s experience, it is an experimental ground for where our perception may lead when multiple layers of temporality becomes a tangible and embodied experience. This work intends to research time from as many angles as possible, while being manifested into an installation—a self-aware space—where the visitor (Timer) can view time as time itself.

P.S.

Time-r is a project set off from an experiential enquiry into the nature of time. Often, time is experienced as an entity outside us with a dualistic characteristic—that of which swings between objective and subjective, cyclic and directional, intangible and measurable—Time-r intends to question these pre-conceptions, researching how we (human-beings) as an agency with a multitude of perceptual intuitions (selves) attend to time in different contexts.