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“ClockClock“ was the name of a work of art with which the Swedish-German design duo “Humans Since1982“ caused a stir in 2008. It was a display wall with clock faces on which clock hands rotated – the artists Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson, together with the engineer David Cox, had programmed the movement of the hands so that not only each minute had its own image, but also regularly numbers or patterns were formed.
Above we show a current version of the artwork with 96 analogue clock faces: The title “ClockClock 24 – Bjarke Ingels“ refers to a collaboration between the artist studio and the well-known Danish architect, which took place in the Danish capital Copenhagen on the occasion of the 3daysof design festival (June 18 to 20, 2025).
What was unique about this version was that the display wall was made of travertine. This gave the artwork an additional temporal dimension, as the rotation of the hands not only froze the minutes, but also brought awareness to the age of the natural stone.
The Dutch studio SolidNature was the third partner in the project and responsible for the stone processing. In this case, the clock faces posed one of the greatest challenges, as they are only five millimeters thick. The stone used was Desert Dune travertine.
The artwork was presented at the headquarters of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Copenhagen. An exhibition titled “Materialism“ will run there throughout 2025: Various building materials are presented in the form of simple cubes, accompanied by discussions and talks.
The materials are natural stone, earth, concrete, metal, glass, wood, and textiles. Each of these seven materials is featured for a month in the Italian magazine Domus. Bjarke Ingels was invited as a guest editor to design this initiative.
“ClockClock“ is now marketed in numerous versions made from a variety of materials under the Collectibles section of Humans Since 1982.
Another famous kinetic time artwork is “A Million Times.“ A version with 504 clock faces is installed in Changi Airport Terminal 2 in Singapore. It is not without reason that it is often referred to under the motto “The Beauty of Time. “ At 7.5 m wide and 3.4 m high, it is one of the largest kinetic art objects in the world.
Changi Airport: “A million Times“
