‘Real Time’ Uses Amusing Manual Techniques To Track the Passage of Each Minute
A part of a collection of performances centered on cumbersome and surreal timekeeping units, Maarten Baas’s “Sweeper’s Clock” chronicles two males as they monitor every passing second with heaps of rubbish. The aerially shot movie follows the pair as they push strains of trash consultant of the minute and hour palms round a big circle faintly outlined within the panorama, holding time as they go.
Launched in 2009, the video piece parallels different intelligent works in Baas’s Actual Time collection, together with a painter manually unveiling a digital display and one other exhibiting the Dutch artist trapped inside a grandfather clock. Guests to the worldwide terminal of the Amsterdam airport in 2016 had been additionally greeted with “Schiphol Clock,” an analog machine suspended from the ceiling wherein a person adjusted the time by hand. “The employee’s blue overalls, yellow rag, and purple bucket pay homage to the well-known Dutch artist, Mondrian,” Baas writes.
Watch extra of the artist’s works on the intersection of artwork, movie, and design on Vimeo. (by way of Laughing Squid)
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