Three film-installations by artist Ollie Palmer

  • Exhibition at Natlab | Time Frames 

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    How does the time we live in shape the way we see the world?

    Join us for the opening of the exhibition "Time Frames" on Saturday, June 22


    Through three film-installations, artist Ollie Palmer presents an absurd, situated approach to the experience and management of time. The solo exhibition plays with the tension between two ways of thinking about time - Chronos, the scientific, quantitative measurement of time, which guides the way in which time is measured, ordered, and managed; and Kairos, the subjective experience of time.

    This exhibition presents three time-related films and installations. Time Frames (2024) is a film essay about the ways in which time itself frames our experience, perception, and the bounds of what is and isn’t possible. The film was made using a rules-based constrained creative process, and ties together three distinct perspectives about time. 86400 (2016) is a real-time 24-hour long film composed of images that show up in a Google Image Search for the exact time at that moment (e.g. 11:41:14). As an unconnected string of images, the film forms a visceral snapshot of the US-indexed internet in late 2015. Finally, Warm Impermanence (2024) is a small installation featuring stretched, fluid, elastic qualities of time, and invites the audience to tune out of measured time.

    This exhibition is supported by Baltan Laboratories and CBK Rotterdam.

    About the artist

    Ollie Palmer is an artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Rotterdam. His work critically questions technology and control systems through designing machines, software, films, and performances. These have been exhibited in galleries and film festivals worldwide, including the V&A Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Opera Garnier de Paris, Seoul Museum of Art, FutureEverything Festival, Royal Academy of British Architects, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Architecture Film Festival London. He was artist-in-residence at the Palais de Tokyo, and holds a PhD by Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL entitled ‘Scripted performances: designing performative architectures through digital and absurd machines’. He teaches at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures and is a researcher in the Situated Art and Design Research Group at the Centre for Applied Research in Art, Design, and Technology. He previously taught in the Bartlett’s Interactive Architecture Lab, TU Delft, and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. For more information, see olliepalmer.com

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