For three nights the Tape Projects space in Carlton will house a series of new Chronox devices, games and publications designed to absorb the viewer into its simple temporal mechanics, to be activated by and evolve in the mind of the audience.

Chronox creates an environment with which to escape the motion of time. Transforming rhythm, complex patterns, phasing synchronicities and utopian architecture constitute parts of a Chronox machine engineered to distort temporal perception. The work meditates on the shared qualities of nostalgia and utopia, by coaxing an audience outside of chronological flow, out of their own time and place, into a world where time ceases to move forwards.

Chronox has featured recently at the MONA FOMA Festival in Hobart, First Draft Gallery in Sydney, Lamington Drive in Melbourne and PICA in Perth.

New Chronox editions on vinyl and in print will be available.

"The installation is beautiful, calming and suggests multiple interpretations.”  Ted Snell (from: The Australian, May 09, 2009)

“It is as if we’ve entered the unwitnessed mechanisms of time itself; a world in parallel, unaffected by the rotation of the globe and passing of the seasons. Chronox is a virtuality that transcends the arbitrary ticking of a clock. It is a world that exists between the cracks.” Dan Rule (from: The Age, A2, June 12, 2010)

Supported by the City of Melbourne and Arts Victoria.