Apparatus and Method for Time Displacement

Full description

Work produced under pseudonym Antoinette J. Citizen.

Across three wearable devices, Apparatus and Method for Time Displacement investigates how we sense time. The first device is a clock set to the wearer’s personalised perception of time. The wearer is invited to press a button when they sense a minute has passed, and the clock adjusts its calculations accordingly. Worn face-down around the leg or arm, the device displays the wearer’s unique time on the floor next to them as they peruse the gallery. The second device is a headset with a screen that streams video of the gallery space, recorded from different points in time. Time can be sped up, slowed down or compressed, visually morphing the past and present. The third wearable device records sound and plays it back through a headset at a displaced time. The wearer can set a short delay. In doing so, they intimately experience the sound of moments just past.

Exhibited in Experimenta: Make Sense touring exhibition

2019 Albury Library Museum, NSW
2019 New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
2019 USC Art Gallery, Sunshine Coast
2018 Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell
2018 Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton
2018 Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW
2018 Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
2018 The Lock Up, Newcastle

2017 RMIT gallery, Melbourne