Resistance of 24/7 Productivity is a series of experiments on the experience and perception of intangible time.

Opposed to the characteristics of clock time such as uniformity, order, repetition that imposed by our current society, Resistance of 24/7 Productivity aims to help the general public acknowledge a fundamental need for slowness and mindfulness and find their own way of measuring time in daily life.

Resistance of 24/7 Productivity takes three different approaches to help people better understand time. It first presents a poetic way of visualizing the passage of time to weaken the excessive exposure to information about time in our daily life. Then it offers audiences an alternative logic for tracking self-time to better settle into the present moment. And finally, it invites audiences to step out of the mechanized time and regain the control of their time.

[A POETIC PRESENTATION OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME]

In our life, in addition to natural phenomena like sunrise and sunset, intended indicators of time are everywhere. They are built into the electronic devices that we carry every day. We don't have to look for them because they are always in the foreground. It is actually difficult for us to count how many times we check the time each day because we are checking time all the time. The Silent Clock is designed to lessen the chance of checking time by downplaying the presentation of specific time. I call the Silent Clock a non-ticking clock not only because it cannot make a sound but it also “mutes” the display of time information.

The Silent Clock accepts the rules of mechanical clocks by automatically forming the shape over a period of 24-hour cycles. However, it avoids the showing of exact time information and instead, invites people to guess time from the changing shape. Twenty-four images on the right side record the changing structure of the clock for each hour starting at 12 p.m..