Time out of Time

Sound measures time in space, and space in time: Reverb goes out, but echo comes back … back … back …

Any journey in time is fundamentally bookended. Our journey begins and ends on a bus, where UV Race vocalist Marcus Rechsteiner will sing a suite of new and old songs about time, in and out of time – and possibly in and out of tune, and possibly to the tune of Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 hit, Time After Time (here temporarily renamed Time Out of Time). Marcus also has offered to provide commentary of what he sees momentarily passing by the bus windows, in real-time.

In unreal time, Alex Cuffe has come unstuck. The artist will be multiplied, speaking with themselves across a multitude of space dates and timezones.

Saskia Doherty will be speaking to wet clay that is taking on the shape of her voice. As the clay dries, the time of her voice will be imprinted into its setting form. When spectators witness the destruction of the dried clay – both the object and the record contained within it – they will see, and hear, the artist’s voice, literally breaking.

At the same time, German Johannes S. Sistermans will be sounding the moment of time’s creation in a single volcanic basalt-lava stone, (old-) fashioned by a volcano, which he has transported in his rucksack from Germany. Geologically speaking, it’ll be the rock hit of the year (450 billion BCE). As Johannes says, let’s hear it for the ‘~tone al◊ne (read as “stone alone”)’. As Liquid Architecture says, zeitgeist is a German word (to be timely).

Time out of Time is presented in association with the exhibition Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015, curated by Amelia Barikin and Victoria Lynn