bioBreak
2021
video art, digital art
dimensions variable
bioBreak speculates a scenario where time is not fixed and it is dictated by devices that push, even further, the urge for immediacy, labor, and exhaustion.
video art, digital art
dimensions variable
bioBreak speculates a scenario where time is not fixed and it is dictated by devices that push, even further, the urge for immediacy, labor, and exhaustion.
bioBreak points out how unequal access to infrastructure constructs uneven realities. The work creates a made-up scenario where three devices have accelerated time differently for their users. Thus, creating a class system that separates citizens based on experiences of time lived through their digital devices.
The infrastructural reality - an outcome of the time transmutation- is displayed in the form of a video and speculative calendars that seek to represent graphically how these desynchronized existences coexist. The overall duration of an infrastructural-immediate day, for each device, is calculated from the acceleration of each of them in the video.
The project started by capturing a basic task at a regular time frame. The task is one already highly affected by the infrastructural time experience, which has pushed our time expectations and demands to a place where taking breaks is a privilege not everyone can afford.
