clock
Clock
Kingson Chan
2022
Live Performance Documentary
Colour, HD video, stereo
65:05.00
The original church of San Juan Evangelista was built in 1508 on top of an old Mudejar mosque. The church obtained its current appearance with the reconstruction at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, carried out by the stonemason brothers Lucas and Antonio de la Lastra, who built a church that is characterised by its humble and severe baroque appearance, foreign to the pomposity of the eighteenth century.
According to the multimedia portal about the Region of Murcia, a work project was carried out by the architect D. Juan García Carrillo in 1996, concluding the execution in 1997. Coincidentally just a day before the year that Hong Kong returned to mainland China, the church clock was inaugurated in 31st December 1996, with the previous one stopped working after 105 years.
The clock chimes every 15 minutes throughout the whole day: 1 chime for the first 15 minutes, 2 chimes for an half hour, 3 chimes for 45 minutes and the number of the 4th chimes tells the hour of the day. There is a rumour that the chiming system serves a modern agriculture propose: farmers manage the amount of water supply from the sewer watering system with the number of chimes that they heard.
Right after 11am outside the church, artist holds a ring bell and try to give a chime with his own bell in every 5 minute without watching the clock, until 12 noon. The every-15-minutes chime from the church provides an amendment to the artist. This work explores the self-perception of time and spatiality, productivity in modern era (clock-based verses task-based), the idea of religious impact onto limited human lives, self-concentration and identity exploration.
Kingson Chan
2022
Live Performance Documentary
Colour, HD video, stereo
65:05.00
The original church of San Juan Evangelista was built in 1508 on top of an old Mudejar mosque. The church obtained its current appearance with the reconstruction at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, carried out by the stonemason brothers Lucas and Antonio de la Lastra, who built a church that is characterised by its humble and severe baroque appearance, foreign to the pomposity of the eighteenth century.
According to the multimedia portal about the Region of Murcia, a work project was carried out by the architect D. Juan García Carrillo in 1996, concluding the execution in 1997. Coincidentally just a day before the year that Hong Kong returned to mainland China, the church clock was inaugurated in 31st December 1996, with the previous one stopped working after 105 years.
The clock chimes every 15 minutes throughout the whole day: 1 chime for the first 15 minutes, 2 chimes for an half hour, 3 chimes for 45 minutes and the number of the 4th chimes tells the hour of the day. There is a rumour that the chiming system serves a modern agriculture propose: farmers manage the amount of water supply from the sewer watering system with the number of chimes that they heard.
Right after 11am outside the church, artist holds a ring bell and try to give a chime with his own bell in every 5 minute without watching the clock, until 12 noon. The every-15-minutes chime from the church provides an amendment to the artist. This work explores the self-perception of time and spatiality, productivity in modern era (clock-based verses task-based), the idea of religious impact onto limited human lives, self-concentration and identity exploration.