An interactive installation and thought experiment on the subjectivity of time, attention, and labour. When you look at the clock and blink, its hands accelerate. By linking the most basic, overlooked attentional act — blinking — to the clock's speed, the work makes visible that attention itself is a form of labour used to 'produce' time. Rather than measuring subjective time, it renders time's subjectivity tangible, placing attention in dialogue with other histories of temporal labour, from factory workers to emotional and care labour.
The Observer Clock
Installation
Installed in the gallery: when you look at the clock and blink, the hands accelerate — attention becomes the labour that produces time.
Publication
The publication — The Observer Clock: Time, Labor, and Attention.
Process
Set-up and process.
