We Ought To Be Time Machines


“We ought to be time machines” (2017), 6:30 min, loop                   Unmute for audio                  





In 2016 I wrote a text called we ought to be time machines about sleep, time management and the feeling of not getting things done.  The text lead to the exhibition and video work by the same name, presented at Studio 17, Stavanger (2017). 

The visuals in the video is a blown out screen recording of a sleepless night’s scrolling session.  The abstract shapes seems to be alive, as microbal organisems, doing whatever microbal organisms do: eat, reproduce. 

The audio is excerpts of the original text about keyboard-researching a treatment of sleep as an pathological illness, read though a dictaphone with a tolerance filter, cutting out sections not recognised by the equipment, leading to a nonsensical or abstract narrative.

“More tubes leading nowhere” (2017) 
Materials: Vinyl tubes, cotton fabric, nylon fabric, bee’s wax









Index  //   Next


©jone Tou
2024