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Durée, part 1

July 2008 The title of this work refers to a concept of the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1951), that of "la Durée" ("the Duration"). This concept is rather hard to explain but in effect posits that time as measurable and quantifiable (seconds, hours, years) is quite different from time as experienced by conscious individuals. This inner life, or time, is the Duration. It occurs to me that this phenomenon serves as a useful metaphor for how we as individuals must deal with the reality of our existence in the world and surrounded by others. Since the private time (and following Wittgenstein, language) of the soul is incommunicable with the outside world, we are thus condemned to isolation, to a type of core of loneliness which cannot be overcome. In this work, as in others, I have attempted to visualise and paraphrase this concept through literal means. The work consists of a series of four high-definition videos of exactly 2 minutes, each slowed down to somewhat less than half real time. It is not obvious to see in this slow time that I am performing a series of otherwise normal actions extremely fast indeed. The effect of this is that the slow-motion playback and my frantic actions serve to cancel each other out to some extent. Whereas everyone else seems stuck in treacle, I am as close to normal as can be found in this strange, dreamlike world.