Walk The Clock by Tom Chung Man- Testing

Walk The Clock
Tom Chung Man
clock, rope
30.5 dia x 11cm
2017

Rope leads the clock in “Walk The Clock”. Rope buckled and stopped the second hand moving while reaction had caused the self rotation of clock.

The clock is slowly moving like walking a dog. Realising our incapability to change the flow of time but only the attitude in facing our time, this work jokes on the substance of time by the absurd behavior. Text on wall: I walk the clock on the street. The second hand moves not forward for the pulling rope.

The clock rotates as to against the reaction force of the second hand.

I control the time.
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We Must Imagine Sisyphus is Happy
18 - 31 August, 2017
Karin Weber Gallery ,Hong Kong

We Must Imagine Sisyphus is Happy’ refers to a never-ending and futile routine in contemporary society. By observing the mechanical, repetitive operation of daily objects, the artist draws an analogy with Sisyphus’s never-ceasing process of pushing the boulder to a conversation about daily absurdity and oppression of life. Modern factorial office working is a new embodiment of Sisyphus’s uninterrupted and meaningless labor. Whilst performing repetitive operations of the same form and shape, human beings are realising the mechanicality and purposelessness of daily routine