Time is precious. Quantity of time (time as we know it), is limited. It is what we cannot make more of.We live in an era where humanity has consolidated a system in which every action is inscribed in a financial algorithm, converting the exchange of time for money in a fundamental practice of our existence. This performance invites you to reflect on time and interpret it with your most subjective point of view.CUT CUT CUT was a performance done in New York / June 26th, 2024. Viewers were invited to choose one of the 60 clocks tied to the artist’s clothing, follow the chord of the object and cut the piece of clothing attached to it with sharp black scissors in order to take it home with them. The clocks run out after 2 hours.
I. time
/tīm/
noun
the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
II. “Capitalism is dead, but it has achieved immortality thanks to financial and virtual transubstantiation. The financial mathematization of the ordinary business of life is the source of the immortalization of the corpse of capitalism.”
- From Franco “Bifo” Berardi on his book The Second Coming.