Christian Marclay / The Clock
This is a video installation which is 24 hours-long and works in real time (ie. If it says it’s 12.01, there will be a clock showing the time 12.01.) It took 3 years to compile and the film clips were painstakingly knitted together by his team. It includes lots of different ways of telling the time, from sun dials to microwave LEDs. I like how this illustrates patterns of communal behaviour and shows how people do things at roughly the same time and how people are connected through these shared moments.
Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/lists/five-ways-christian-marclays-clock-does-more-just-tell-time
Benjamin Bennett / Sitting and Smiling
Bennett's work shows the passage of time - he just sits there smiling over a four-hour period. He has created many of these strange videos and there is no reasonable explanation for this which frustrated many viewers on Youtube. They question whether it is durational art – more about the endurance of the performance than the content of the piece – or whether the artist is even mentally ill! It is certainly very unsettling and unnerving.
Richard Long / A Line Made By Walking
The photograph shows trampled grass, showing Long's repeated path through a grassy field, demonstrating the physical effects of progress through time and space. I like how simple the idea is but is still so effective.
Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/long-a-line-made-by-walking-ar00142
Richard Long / A Line In The Himalayas
Daniel Eatock / Sixty, Second Circles
60 circles, one drawn each second for a minute. I like the continuity, which works well with the circular shape, overlapping of the circles and the use of different colours.
Source: https://eatock.com/projects/one-second-circles-drawn-for-one-minute-/
Pia Männikkö / Déjà Vu V
This is an installation of hand-painted silhouettes on tulle fabric, through which people can walk around. Air drafts make the images move and I like the ghostly, apparition-like nature of it. Even though the piece is actually stationary, there is actually a real sense of movement, through the differing positions of the silhouettes, giving a sense of the passage of time.
Francis Alÿs / Paradox of Praxis 1
For more than 9 hours, Alÿs pushed a block of ice around outside in the heat of Mexico City until it completely melted. The piece serves as a memento mori, reminding one of the inexorable passage of time. Although created in 1997, the piece could be used as a warning in today’s society about the perils of global warming and the melting of the polar icecaps.
Source: https://francisalys.com/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing/
Daniel Eatock / One Minute Circle Painting
Eatock painted a circle using spray paint on a gallery window, using the second hand on the clock as a guide. I find the video makes me realise how long a minute actually is, as you don’t believe he will complete it in the time, and you think more time has passed than it really has. The fact that it is on a window allows people to see the creation of the piece from a different perspective.
Hiroshi Sugimoto / Theaters
I like the eerie quality to the photos. The white screen almost seems like a portal to another dimension. While the passage of time is not immediately obvious, when reading up, I learnt the photo is exposed for the entire duration of a movie so that block of time is important to the piece.
Source: https://hyperallergic.com/323313/hiroshi-sugimotos-otherworldly-photographs-of-movie-theaters/
Daniel Eatock / One Hour Circle Painting
Eatock asked 60 different visitors to spray circles around a clock onto a gallery wall, taking 60 seconds to paint with exact time-limits for contributors. The resulting piece is messy but bold, and I like the fact that so many people had to contribute to its creation. He uses time in a clever way, as it is only one minute of the visitor's time, but collectively, it amounts to an hour.
Source: https://eatock.com/projects/one-hour-circle-painting/
Daniel Eatock / One Hour Circles
Eatock asked 24 participants to draw a freehand circle in a clockwise direction using coloured felt tips. The whole process of one circle was to last an hour. The final set of 24 circles represents a combined drawing duration of one day. I like how each participant was given the same instructions but each circle differs so much in size, colours and shape. The ink has bled on some of the circles and I like this effect.
Daniel Eatock / One Hour Circle
Eatock once again uses time in an unusual way. The final piece is a circle representing an hour - it was drawn in 12 sections, each taking 5 minutes, simultaneously by 12 people. I like the bright colours differentiating each section, and find it particularly interesting how each line is so different, with varying widths and bleeds.