Narrative Material
Winter 2014

Jerome Gautier
Equiveillance

Simon Weckert
Equiveillance

Alisa Goikhman
Greenwich Globe

Martin Stelter
Hoyerswerda

Gyujin Lee
Illusion Installation of Intersection

Erik Freydank
laterna obscura

Catharina Dörr
Mithras’ Message

Paul Kolling
Mithras’ Message

Seaum Shim
Moiré-Mauer

Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
Ort des Geschehens

Felix Worseck
self-exposure
Alisa Goikhman — Greenwich Globe
Narrative Material — Winter 2014
The Greenwich Globe restores the connection between time and space by giving a physical representation to the way we keep time. The shadow it casts on the wall operates like a hybrid between a world clock and a sundial. While rotating at the speed of earth, each spike in the shadow shows the local time at a corresponding geographical region.
Time zones were invented to unify the clocks of neighboring regions and form a system that is easy to follow. In reality this artificial division is strongly influenced by political and economical forces. This means that some countries share a time zone with their business partners and allies rather than their neighbors.
The globe’s shape was generated by an algorithm that treated time as physical matter. Each additional hour is represented through a constant degree of elevation. It contemplates what shape our earth would take if our understanding of time was reflected in its topography.





