kazadokei

2008.03

for Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The kazadokei is a two-metre-tall clock with a second hand that measures 150cm. As these dimensions might suggest, the clock uses the same kind of mechanism employed in large timepieces for buildings and parks, rather than indoor wall or tabletop ones. When the hands of some faces align, the faces on their slender poles look like a hill of windmills. We’ve seen the clock’s raison d’etre shift from functionality to personal taste and design sensibility. Today, in an era when our perception of time is increasingly dulled, the kazadokei lets us experience time directly with our bodies and senses – and is a way of linking windmills, which revolve when they catch the wind, and clocks, which revolve when they catch time.

kazadokei是一个两米高的时钟，其秒针为150厘米。正如这些尺寸可能表明的那样，这种钟使用的机械装置与建筑和公园的大型钟表所用的机械装置相同，而不是室内墙上或桌面上的钟表。当一些脸的手排成一列时，它们细长的杆子上的脸看起来就像一座风车小山。我们已经看到了时钟存在的理由从功能性到个人品味和设计敏感性的转变。今天，在我们对时间的感知越来越迟钝的时代，kazadokei让我们通过身体和感官直接体验时间——它是一种连接风车和时钟的方式，风车随着风旋转，时钟随着时间旋转。