Time Instillation Ideas

So I’m very excited about this time instillation. As I’ve been brainstorming more and more there are several ways that we can go ahead with this project. My main hope is to really delve into the concept of time and how we are all ‘living in the moment’ without really absorbing it. I also like the idea of the past- so each moment that happens now will soon become just a time in our past. I don’t know how much I will go into the future aspect but I really want to focus on the current present time.

There are several images that we can project on the screen- maybe images of clocks entwined with different colors –the idea of how time can affect you with the different sight of color. Also there could be images of people growing old before our eyes but that might get tricky since I don’t think we have much experience technically to represent that well. We could also project images of the audience in present time with clocks spinning in the background to show visually that time is passing them all by in this very moment.

I really want to focus on the interactive element of this instillation and have the audience experience this with us. I thought a neat idea would be to display an image of a couple clocks and ask them to determine what is wrong with the image. This would just be a “waste of time” for the audience but would hopefully open their eyes a bit to how important each minute is.

Also I really like how the past can be different than we remember since our memory isn’t always the best resource. So it might be neat to ask the audience to remember certain moments in the past- although I mostly want to focus on time and not so much memory so we shall see.

One of the films from Cucalorus talked about living lie to the fullest. I really want the audience leaving with the idea that everything they do matters and each moment is important. I also want to close the instillation with celebrating cinema and photography because it is the only way that you can really “capture” time. I’m definitely struggling with how the best way to interact the audience but hopefully when we narrow our ideas it will become more concrete.