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RA Walden
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  1. 23 astronauts at varying distances from a black hole
  2. the universe is a clock
  3. Crip Ecologies (2024)
  4. earth again being a body
  5. time, building itself, adagio
  6. access points // or // alternative states of matter(ing)
  7. feladŷifâ / feladŷi
  8. Crip Ecologies (2022)
  9. science fiction is not pretend
  10. ẍây ithřa: a pledge
  11. a slow and burning hope
  12. Structures of Care
  13. -o-:06:19
  14. Notes From The Underlands
  15. My Body Is The House That I Live In
  16. Remedial Geologies IV
  17. My Body Was A River
  18. Primer
  19. Border Crossings // I Am Here
  20. Potential Future Performances
  21. Remedial Geologies III 
  22. Crip Ecologies (2018)
  23. Utopias (IRL//URL)


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23 astronauts at varying distances from a black hole (2024)







Image Credit: Jules Lister
Photographed at Grundy Gallery, UK, for ‘object transformations through the coordinate of time’, 2024, RA Walden 


23 astronauts at varying distances from a black hole, 2024

office clocks, adafruit trinkets, aa batteries

This work utilises hacked shop-bought wall clocks reminiscent of those found in offices around the world. By integrating specially programmed microchips into their mechanisms, the artist has produced a series of clocks that, rather than running to ‘normal time’, each run to their own time. The title of the work refers to a concept in physics called ‘gravitational time dilation’, where for an observer, time would pass slower closer to a black hole than further away. By pointing to this, the artist is asking us to question the idea that time is fixed or stable, therefore inviting us to explore our own conceptions of how we experience the passing of time.

Text by Paulette Brien
 

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