Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Refusal Of Time - MET

This post talks about an exhibit at the MetroPolitan Museum Of Art, New York.
The Artist made a five - channel video installation titled The Refusal Of Time with the purpose of meditation on time and spacial aspects of colonialism, globalization and his own intellectual life.
This thirty minute video explores various attributes of time.

I really like how he works around Albert Einstein's idea of 'railway stations don't operate exactly on schedule. This was clearly shown in his 4 tier work, where one act was done on 4 different time slots. And in between there was a weird version of a pendulum made of wood working continuously with the same intervals.

I enjoyed the part where the room suddenly looks like a Galaxy or the milky way , and there are sound waves that go across the room. That makes the sounds feel like its running through my body. The colonialism was shown when a man keeps walking around the room and shows the labour he puts in.
He shows his intellectual work through his journal.

He used really good sounds that sounded like wavelengths, it gave the whole room a feel of being inside a machine and it is continuously working but at different speeds and modes.




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