TEAM｜ Yezi Xu, Xiaoting Tan, Zihan Guan

This project was produced in a 3-day workshop in Shanghai.

Cities are a mixed time pedigree, and each city has its unique timeliness. The city's different time dimensions are just like different characters with different personalities, which are exposed in the urban space, and together they interpret the rich bridges. Clausius used "entropy" to measure the unidirectional irreversibility of heat to describe the flow of time, and Einstein's theory of relativity compared human beings to "worms" in time.

When based on the city system, what defines the time of a city? How do we perceive the time in the city? And do we exist in time, or time exists in us?

“The Trashcam Project”

This is a series of black-and-white images taken by a pinhole camera modified from a trash rubbish can. Every picture has experienced a long exposure of six minutes to an hour.

The different time dimensions of the city are just like different characters with different personalities, which are exposed in the urban space, and perform the rich stories together. Based on the city system, if the traditional time counting method is broken, how to perceive the time of a city?

3D space

4D spacetime

Relevant sounds of Shanghai were recorded on a 24-hour timeline. We want to create an immersive 4D spacetime in which the audience could feel the unique time of Shanghai by projecting sound and video. Also, the audience can feel their presence in time through their interaction in this space.

24-hour Time Black Box of Shanghai