Artist Television Access Window Gallery, December 2026
Time Keeping, a site-specific durational performance for Almost/Public Semi Exposed at Artist Television Access.
Time Keeping is a meditation on surveillance, a lengthy observation of time’s subtle shift, a performative ode to celluloid film reels, and a physical document of Valencia Street over a couple hours on December 13, 2025. Inspired by Craig Baldwin's myriad reels stacked in the basement of Artist Television Access, I created a live reel from the window gallery at ATA. Using a digital camera with a built in, timestamped thermal printer, I took and printed a picture of every 3 minutes, creating a 60 frame photo reel over the course of a 3 hour performance.
In Time Keeping documentation and performance intertwine, the artist and audience's gaze becomes reciprocal, like a two way surveillance camera rendering the flow of street traffic in real time. In past iterations of my durational photo strips, I have been in constant motion - photographing shifting landscapes from buses, trains or car windows. With this performance that method is reversed, and a new opportunity emerges as the camera is stationary while the world passes by around it. Recording the way light shifts with the late fall hours, the movement of bikes, cars and people passing by as I sit still.
