Abstract

Sunday June 12, 2022
@4pm - 5:30pm CT

A Performance Lecture

Pace Investigations is an ongoing series that asks how one copes with acceleration and deceleration while enduring mediated time, shared space, and other external forces. Each iteration of Pace Investigations is new. The actions and materials of the performance are site-specific and the duration of the performance is precisely staggered. The same performance repeats multiple times consecutively, daily, or seasonally. Each time the performance repeats, its duration either loses or gains time.
In Pace Investigations No. 12, the same performance consecutively repeats 11 times. What begins as a 14-minute performance incrementally loses time to become a 24-second performance, then gains time to become a 14-minute performance once again. As this constriction, then expansion of time occurs the performance must shift. Some actions that make up the performance speed up or slow down. Some actions become unrecognizable from previous cycles. Some are abandoned, while others gain significance. Some actions merge. Regardless of how the performance adapts to the temporal constraint, the tension between measured and affective time is palpable. Works in the Pace Investigations series have been sited in a range of art-designated, outdoor, and public shared spaces. Each place has offered insight into ways time is collectively marked and felt. In this new iteration, “real time” technologies are challenged and the screen is explored as a public site for meaningful exchange.