Timezone5

“In a monolithic terminal reminiscent of public information displays, Temporal Secessionism investigates alternative systems of timekeeping, as opposed to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) used in our everyday lives. Building on previous iterations that explore divergent temporal regimes - from broken quartz crystal frequencies (“healing time”) to Google’s consensus algorithms (“machine time”) and blockchain rhythms (“energy time”) - this new work specifically interrogates industrial time and manufacturing processes. In Timezone 5, created especially for the exhibition, Seidler examines how production lines, supply chains, and automated systems generate their own temporal logic alongside standardized time. The work makes visible how networked infrastructures and industrial processes create parallel temporalities that exist distinct from, yet interconnected with, traditional chronological measurements. Like its predecessors, this iteration serves as both prototype and critique—suggesting new temporal frameworks while exposing the multiple, overlapping systems that coordinate and control time in our accelerated present. Seidler’s work prompts us to question how automated processes have become new authorities in determining not just how we measure time, but how we fundamentally experience it. The result is a meditation on time as both a technical protocol and an instrument of coordination in contemporary society.”

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