Chapter 14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site
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Abstract
The Daylight Saving Time series offers four visual art projects that engage in interventionist strategies to push against the infrastructure of clock time. In I Need To Be Closer To You (DST IV) (2018), the most recent iteration in the series, artists Emily DiCarlo and Evan Tyler collaborate on a long-distance performance-for-video, which examines the history and inconsistency of Canadian Daylight Saving Time through an intimate lens. With consideration to the lineage of Romantic Conceptualist thought, this article traces site-specificity’s evolution, establishes “time-specificity” as a key component in the work, and explores telepresence as a means for remote collaboration, considering the phenomenological and empathetic potential of being “both here and there.”