MADE IN CYLAND

The time signals have a strict utilitarian purpose and are used as a reference to determine the time of day. Not only humans, but machines too, are sensitive to them. Coordinated Universal Time — an imposed time — splits space into time zones and divides days into slots for labor and leisure. A seemingly ordered and planned timing of the day bends the stream of life. It establishes hours through a hierarchy of choices we make throughout the day.

In this project, utilitarian, purposeful time-counting is displaced by a subjective logic. It is guided by one’s personal sense of time — where what feels too long or too short is a matter of perception, shaped by what is happening and when. It appears as a temporally staged game, existing only for the sake of play, without any clear purpose. Whatever slice of time is noticed will be neither a beginning nor an end. They are all part of a broader continuity, where the sound from this installation is just one of many fragments — existing like pulsars, like strangers’ shouts from nowhere — a barely recognizable fragment of someone’s voice, snatched from the surrounding noise.