Emily DiCarlo’s interdisciplinary work merges visual representations of time with the affective qualities of duration. She rests on the floor of Canada’s official time dissemination room at the National Research Council to protest 24/7 clock time; airmails postcards westward from the Arctic Circle to chase and keep pace with a setting sun; choreographs groups to think like fungi and speak in spores; creates choirs from global talking clock hotline services; and executes “time-specific” performance-for-videos to manipulate the absurdity of Daylight Saving Time. Her writing runs parallel with her visual practice and explores the sociopolitical implications of predominate time structures in contrast to alternative temporalities through the perspectives of feminist phenomenology, queer time theory and more-than-human ontologies.
