TimeTable
This plywood and oak public installation piece is a pun (obviously). It’s a play on the first database-like image that comes to mind when one thinks of a timetable. Originating from Latin tabula meaning a board, it gained its meaning in 1863 as a system to record railway departures. Timetables say something specific about our cultural attitudes towards time—the contraction of time and space for production purposes. They evoke the mechanization of society during the Industrial Revolution. This wonky timetable plays into the idea that time is, first and foremost, an experience - and, therefore, subject to variations depending on our contexts and quality of attention.
On October 29, 2023, we asked passersby in Washington Square Park to answer the question, “How long is a New York Moment?” The purpose of the table was to playfully reconnect passersby with organic time—the perceived speed of the Earth’s rotation—and in so doing reflect on how the quality of our attention prolongs or shortens moments.
QuidityWhat is a timetable? How does it exist.HexeityWhat is a timetable? How do people interact.