METRON

2014. 3 metric rulers, projector, computer and coding

Metron is a metronomic clock that doesn’t tell time but suggests its passing. The audience perceives randomly colored bars of light running across steel metre rulers at different speeds. The metre rulers measure the hour, minute and second respectively. 

The work was first shown in an exhibition which looks at the city as manifold, distinct time-spaces. Growing up in a small town, the artist was moved to the city at age nine. His corporeal sense of time – of his home – was jolted by his new physical environment. Time in the city is largely quantitative, parcelled into seconds and minutes of the clock; its space, linear and frictionless. This is in contrast to the rhythmic flow of life in a small town.   

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Exhibitions
2016 Betwixt, Art Science Museum, Singapore
2015 ArtJog 8, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta
2015 San Diego Art Institute International Exhibition, Balboa Park, San Diego
2014 Drawing Cage, The U Factory, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (solo exhibition)

Bibliography
2016 Bruce Quek. Beyond the accessibility of the Betwixt Festival. Today, 26 Feb 2016. Print.
2015 Carla Bianpoen. ArtJog Cements Its Place as Leading Display of Indonesian Contemporary Art, Jakarta Globe. 17 Jun 2015. Web.
2015 Yuliasri Perdani. Art Jog ∞ Into the Infinite Universe of New Media Art, The Jakarta Post. 6 Jun 2015. Web.
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Top video: 2014. 1 min 20 s video documentation. As installed at The U Factory, Gillman Barracks, Singapore in Jan 2014. Projector by Canon.