Keer Wei
Poetic Time - Time Care in Family
Summary
The research examines how we perceive time in late capitalism, trying to offer an alternative to the fragmentary nature and hyper-efficiency, which is a non-periodic, interrupted and inalienable rhythm that turning competition into a new form of collaboration.
Within the vast subject of time, I find the care of time in families as an entry point, Observing our perception and expression of time in the home in relation to the concept of phenomenological time, emphasising that the individual's perception of time does not exist in isolation and attempting to find the relationships and connections of time in families, which offers an alternative that will help to counter the growing anxiety of the capitalist time system with the family as a unit.
Family time was prolonged by the pandemic and time relationships within the family were magnified. The research focuses on how to find a time comfort zone for families in the accelerated temporal order of the moment. Introducing the concept of individual time perception to people, with the aim of discovering and amplifying individual's time regimes within a macro conception of time. Creating a shared value of time in the home to facilitate communication between family members and improve time care within families. The home will become a safe zone in the midst of a great social acceleration vortex.
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The case study focuses on my boyfriend Sone and I. As we are currently separated in two different time zones with a seven-hour time difference, our time together and our patterns of spending time together have been greatly affected. This experiment explores how we adapt to a new time regime at a particular time, attempting to create a new expression of time through the way we share time between us.
We had between tens and a hundred calls during this time in a different place, each with a certain pattern of duration, the shortest being one hour and the longest usually at the weekend, up to eight hours. We recorded the duration of each call and divided them into five layers, each corresponding to a note (whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note and sixteenth note), which gave us the rhythm of the time we spent together during this period. In addition, a computer programme can translate the date and time of the start of our daily calls into tones. This allows us to create a unique melody from the time we spend with each other.
