![]() ![]() ![]() The dimension of memory, hallucination, dream and boredom. Henri Bergson sought to define duration as relative to time, and then Einstein observed that time itself was relative, a fourth dimension. Martin Heidegger said we are time and time is us and is inseparable from our conscious minds, an illusion of necessity full of deep-seated paradoxes, not all that different from money. Despite the apparent empiricism of clocks and calendars, for centuries people have pulled their chins over the question of whether or not time even exists at all, except as a figment of our imaginations. Measure velocities in space with time, measure the regression of time with history time is both linear and circular, a perplexing fact of consciousness. We think of time as a system of measurement, but it is almost entirely a construct of memory and imagination. The work she is perhaps best known for is the Poodle** Dog Ornamental Bar, 2009, a time travelling speakeasy she constructed in the backyard of a rented house as a working recreation of a local saloon that last served drinks in the 1890s. It’s a broad subject, and Feyrer’s treatment of this theme is also open-ended–she makes sculptures, films, and installations that all deal in different ways with our perception of time. In the seven years between the rock show and the art show, representations of time became a recurring theme in Feyrer’s art. ![]() Back in 2005, the Vancouver artist Julia Feyrer was keeping time as a drummer for the short-lived but internationally popular rock band They Shoot Horses Don’t They? In March of 2012, with her debut solo exhibition of clock-based sculptures and looping 16-mm films, “Alternatives and Opportunities” at Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Feyrer stopped time. ![]()
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