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Public Clocks by Sean, N Mutans, Ted Pro

April 25th, 2011 1:40 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Help the marginalized and disenfranchised recognize/participate in the common origin and shared destiny of San Francisco by re-integrating them into the temporality of San Francisco's narration. (Install Public Clocks To Aid The Cause Of Empty Homogenous Time.)

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Help destroy the constant principles of San Francisco's culture that attempt to hark back to a "true" San Franciscan past by encouraging the kind of subaltern ephemeral temporalities that inhabit the space between the "I have heard" and "you will hear". (Destroy Public Clocks To Aid The Cause of Performative Time)

We installed a public clock in a public park!
First we walked a public mile.
Then we found a public sixpence upon a public stile.

We perpetrated public clockery in Seattle! Details of the whole thing are best explained in videos and pictures; see below.

UPDATE: Went back to the park the next day at 5PM, and the clock is still there undisturbed. Also, noticed that the name of the park is Counterbalance Park, which is kind of an awesome name for a park.

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The Cuckoo Clock

The clock, in position, looks like it really belongs there.

The Public Clock

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TedPro explains the cuckoo clock.

Cuckoo Image

Fresh and piping hot, right out of the printer.

Mutans At Desk

Mutans business services offers turnkey enterprise solutions for all your cuckoo-based quasi-clock chrononautic guerilla art installation needs.

Cuckoo Image

Colorized with watercolor from the hotel "Art Cart." It really does look quite photographic. Mutans sez: "I made the bug purple because purple is the color of Chrononautic Exxon."

What Is Time

The image on the back of the public clock we're installing. The text says "What is time? Time is a bug that we drop in the mouth of something that we think is our child, but is not." Incidentally, Papyrus is the font to use when you want to say "I am being very sincere."

What is Time?

Sometimes, the most important questions are answered on the back side of the clock.

Clock Face

TedPro insisted that Mutans put beautiful patterns on the front, "so it won't look like junk and get thrown away." But TedPro was not willing to take the effort himself. Fortunately, Mutans is jawesome and made this happen. We all still have superglue on our hands. It's too bad we don't have any crimes to commit; we'd leave no fingerprints. Oh wait, we did commit crimes. If you consider art a crime.

On The Street

If you can't move the park to your cuckoo clock, bring the cuckoo clock to your park.

The Clocks and Eyeballs Crowd

Posing at an optometry shop called Eyeballs along the way to the park. Looking jaded and clock-having.

The Park

This particular park is weirdly lit, but genuinely full of trees and benches. In the daylight, it looks so bland.

Multicolor Park

At night, the park lights change color every few seconds. It's like a Christmas Tree got turned inside out. Except that we did this on Easter Sunday. Worst simile ever, I guess.

Clock on Pillar

This may look like an eerie, ill-lit piece of machinery to you. And, to tell the truth, that would be totally accurate.

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted

The park is closed at night except for special events. I don't know why they make all the alluring light show all night long if they want to keep you out of the park, but they do. Fortunately, guerrilla art clocks is TOTALLY a special event.

Placing the Clock