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"Telling Time": Raqs Media Collective at MUDAC, Lausanne

Posted On:Monday, June 22nd, 2015 | by project88newsadmin

Raqs Media collective
Telling Time
MUDAC, Lausanne
May 27 – September 27, 2015
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The vocabulary of watchmaking uses poetic and evocative language to express the plethora of ways employed through the centuries to display the time – how about wandering hours, mysterious time, digital time, hands in the air or singing hours? Telling Time juxtaposes historic pieces and works by contemporary artists and designers, which all share the same desire to tell the time. The more recent creations often build upon and adapt the inventiveĀ¬ness of watchmakers of yesteryear. Each of these domains – watchmaking, art and design – brings its own particular resonance, its own poetry and aesthetic language …
“Telling Time”: Raqs Media Collective at MUDAC, Lausanne