Clock (60bpm)

Clock (60bpm) is a timepiece initially created for the Soloway gallery at the Dependent Art Fair 2012 in New York City, which occured on a floor of the Comfort Inn with different NYC galleries in each hotel room.

The piece functions similarly to a carillon bell tower, sounding every 15 minutes denoting the correct time via an upbeat dance music melody. While the mechanical clock of 13th century Western Europe predates industrial capitalism, it plays a significant role in the large social shift from a task-based experience of time to a clock-based experience of time in quantifiable units. Like the bell tower, this instrument of social order historically unifies individuals in acoustic space for specific aims, whether for economic production or religious practice.