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Kairos Clock

Yiling Hu

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Yiling is a spatial designer whose practice is rooted in everyday experience and quiet resistance. She explores time and ritual as forces of intervention, engaging with fragmentation in modern society and the potential of systems to generate new spatial narratives.

Yiling is a spatial designer whose practice is rooted in everyday experience and quiet resi...

Kairos Clock is an interactive installation at the Firth of Forth, where the act of interaction reenacts the process of pearl formation. It becomes a commemorative ritual for the disappearance of oysters, realigning past and future during an ongoing ecological crisis. At the same time, the ritual serves as an intervention into the disordered perception of time in modern society, fractured by systems of temporal construction. 

Collabrators:

Eano Gu, Research Support 

Lyra (Yijia Li), Techincal Advisor 

Talia Li, Project Advisor 

Krista Fu, Project Advisor

Final work

Kairos Clock

Using the shifting speeds of modern transport to express time’s fragmentation and invite reflection on its disordered experience. 

  • Office cubicles lifted from Playtime and placed onto a natural beach landscape.
  • Office cubicles lifted from Playtime and placed onto a natural beach landscape.
A sequence of pearl formation paired with a diagram showing interaction with office cubicles.

Interactive process

People’s interaction with the environment mimics pearl formation, turning office cubicles into oysters on the beach.

Transparent bubbles rise from cubicle-like structures on a riverside landscape under a wide sky.

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Kairos Clock

Kairos Clock is an interactive installation at the Firth of Forth, where the act of interaction reenacts the process of pearl formation. It becomes a commemorative ritual for the disappearance of oysters, realigning past and future during an ongoing ecological crisis....

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