Our Time
Hobart, 2016
How long is a moment? At what rate does time actually pass?
Our Time is a large-scale installation continuing United Visual Artists’ enquiry into the subjective experience of the passing of time. The work joins a series of kinetic sculptures that began with Momentum (2014), an installation designed as a ‘spatial instrument’ that reveals the relationship between expectation and perception in physical space.
Our Time materialises a physical environment where pendulums swing overhead at a pace unhindered by the laws of nature and gravity, and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound in a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional space through which the visitor can wander. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable.
