CLOCK

CLOCK, a twelve hour performance, consisted of an action or demonstration in which twelve clocks were cast inside concrete blocks. The performance began at 12:00 AM. Twelve forms for concrete were already on site, placed in a circle. Each form was one cubic foot in volume. A clock with actual, local time was situated in the center of the circle together with the cardboard box it was purchased in. Each empty form had an identical clock, each with its box, on the floor in front of the form. The positions of the forms conformed to the positions of the numbers on a clock face. The performance began with the mixing of concrete by hand and at one PM the alarm of the clock in the one o’clock position went off. The time on that clock was 12:00. The cement was poured into the form and the clock, still ringing, was inserted into the center of the wet concrete and covered over. The procedure occurred every hour with each alarm ringing as each clock reached 12:00. Each clock was set one hour earlier than the one behind it. At midnight the last clock read 12:00 as did the clock in the center of the circle. The next day the forms were removed which revealed the blocks constituting a kind of clock themselves, the first block cast was light gray, being drier and the last clock was of course much darker with the blocks in between graded in shades of grey.