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I Got Time, 2013

2013
Performance and Sculpture
Artist’s Left Hand, 24-Hour-Held Concrete in Plastic Cup,
Lambda Print on Dibond, 24 Exp. Positive Film in Full Length with Light Tube
Dimension Variable
ca. 12 x 8 dia. cm each (Sculpture) , 15.2 x 10.2cm (Print) , 15 x 123 x 10cm each (Film)

Selected Exhibitions

2013
“Slade Show 2013 MA/MFA”, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Artist Statement

Wong’s twenty-day durational performance can be described in simple terms  – holding a cup of concrete for 24 hours.  A pledge from which a multitude of tiny terms and conditions come into view as he maintains his hand’s position throughout one whole day without letting go of the cup in any circumstances. The artist has set up a situation in which time is constantly revealed by this enduring mundane action. Since the backdrop of the performance is not an aestheticized formal setting, it seems to synchronize perfectly with everyday life although the stillness of both the gesture and the concrete creates a subtle alienation. Wong’s urge for temporal materialization would probably be diagnosed as chronophobia by Pamela M. Lee: the artist is suffering from “an uneasiness with time and its measure”. However, the performance is not simply an act to index time in order to resolve this anxiety. Photographic documentations are deployed intentionally and executed specifically. They represent a strong sense of urgency in striving to create the artist’s own trace through the imageries left behind by his deed. The cups of concrete have gradually taken the artist’s imprint and formed themselves as urban fossils. After all, the state of being that emerges through an almost meditative perseverance whilst time passes irrepressibly is the essence of the work.

I Got Time
Exhibition View at Slade Show

I Got Time
Exhibition View at Slade Show

I Got Time
Exhibition View at Slade Show

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