the timekeeper’s meditation

durational performance & installation
by Lindsey Barlag Thornton

premiered:
SAIC's New Blood Festival
​Links Hall, Chicago
​November, 2013

​remount:
8 hour durational performance &
installation on view as part of
Mind the Gap Exhibition
curated by Steve Juras
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
August, 2014

 photos by Claire Demos

 

Using the troubled voyage of Ernest Shackleton's "Endurance" as a metaphorical/symbolic departure point, the work explores our relationship to the dissonance between objective and subjective time. One hundred pounds of ice slowly melts atop a hand-made wood table, dripping into tin buckets, as my body is present on the ice for the duration of hours. At various intervals a text is read aloud, meditating on time, past, present, and future happening simultaneously as ice melts, and as I keep time throughout the duration of a day—seconds…minutes…and hours—as they are actually experienced and surreally imagined. Audience members are free to come and go, engaging with both material and performer.

 

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