Time Management

A site-specific work consisting of 100 deckchairs and 5mins | 33 seconds animation. A public artwork commissioned by Middlesbrough Council and produced by Navigator North, with support from Art Council England’s Cultural Recovery Fund.

Appearing at events in the Town Centre over the next year.

Offering a space to contemplate how we experience patterns of time, Time Management is a site-specific artwork by Colin Priest consisting of 100 deckchairs designed by the artist and a short animation inviting everyone to sit back, pause for a while and escape their schedules.

Through research into Middlesbrough Town Hall and its emblematic clock, conversations revealed the variety of ways our everyday lives are measured from alarm clocks to meditation, safety inspections to virus scans, screensavers to last orders. Meanwhile these last months, we have also recalibrated our relationship to time; the natural world and built environment anchoring our collective sense of place.

Here and now, as time flies around us, where numerals cascade and pareidolic clouds roll, how might we keep time?

• https://navigatornorth.co.uk/programme/p...
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5CHCgS...