Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management | Artists Space and e-flux Screening Room, New York
Co-curated with Emily Small, Zachary Feldman, and Johanna Thorell, Clocking out: Time Beyond Management was the culmination of a year of collective study as a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. The exhibition, running from May 17-28, 2023, encompassed a gallery exhibition, performance program, and reading room at Artists Space as well as a film program at e-flux Screening Room.
Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management challenges the dominant modern conception of time as objective, divisible, and linear. Situating the global imposition of this naturalized temporal order alongside the advent of Western capitalist modernity and the implementation of standardized clock time, the exhibition explores how time is represented, lived, and contested in the catastrophic present.
Presenting speculative, historical, and already-existing alternatives to the dominant temporal regime, the exhibition gestures towards a Time Beyond Management—a time outside of imposed regimentations, imperatives to productivity, and self-inflicted time management. The works on view foreground the orchestration of time as a site of struggle and critique, moving away from linear, progressive conceptions of time that historically and continuously enable interlocking systems of social, political, and economic domination. Spanning decolonial and Indigenous temporalities, alternative time-based economies, queered timekeeping devices, and materializations of interwoven time in textile practices, the exhibition resists the tendency towards a singular counter-hegemonic solution. Clocking Out is ultimately an invitation to imagine liberatory futures unhinged from the clock’s regulative hold on everyday life.
Featuring Kobby Adi, Julieta Aranda, Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle, Yto Barrada, Black Quantum Futurism, Helen Cammock, Maria Chávez, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brendan Fernandes, ektor garcia, Hicham Gardaf, Gerard & Kelly, Simon Gush, Sky Hopinka, Clare Hu, Samson Kambalu, Karrabing Film Collective, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Rosalind Nashashibi, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Finnegan Shannon, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor.
The exhibition was accompanied by a publication, which includes theoretical essays from each of the curators as well as short texts and illustrations on each of the featured artists.
Images of the publication of Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management courtesy of Hicham Gardaf.
Cover image: Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.
