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August 28, 2024 blog

self portrait as time

Linking here to Marcus Coates’ digital video Self Portrait as Time (2016).

https://www.marcuscoates.co.uk/projects/154-self-portrait-as-time

This is a 24 hour long video in which Coates has recorded himself manually moving the second hand of a watch second-by-second.

I saw the work at an exhibition called 24/7 at Somerset House in late 2019 and was enthralled by it.

Curiously, when I see the brief excerpt now, it leaves me a little colder. Perhaps this is because I’m increasingly less interested in the conceits of contemporary art and instead yearn for more concrete or perhaps real relationships to resources, objects and making.

Up next the comfort/chaos circle A model for thinking about learning, which consists of three concentric circles: the comfort zone, the learning zone, the chaos zone. The circles ecosytemic practice research I finally got round to posting a piece of writing for Dance Research called Ecosystemic Practice Research (for the benefit of others):

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