Time experiment creates an temporal augmentation in the space.
The installation could be defined as a mirror with memory.
Lacan argues that self-knowledge is an illusion as the human mind
is not a unified whole. His “mirror stage” - theory
is a model for the relationship between the “I” and
the image itself. Having an image of oneself is part of human reality.
We are always, in a sense, "someone else" insofar as
the image is perceived as separate from us. The multitude of unseen
eyes in social networks increases the distance between the “I” and
the image, because only the image is visible for their gaze, while
the “I” remains hidden. The pleasure of watching us
as others disappears with the lost connection between the image
and the “I”. The panoptic gaze has been inverted, but
the fear of being seen has transformed into fear of not being seen.
The installation reconnects people with their own image in a seemingly
un-technological environment, in a familiar and intuitive way.
The immediate past is transformed into a temporal extension, which
is constantly updated by the events in the space. The seamless
flow of reality is spliced into short random loops, which can be
seen as a timeline of events. Traces of people’s movements
become tools for an ephemeral social play. People are aware of
themselves and others, while their captured presence works as an
interface to the augmentation in time. The logic of surveillance,
control and monitoring is transformed into a series of observations
about one’s own body, movement and relation to others.