Pace Investigations No. 6.3 | Sandrine Schaefer

In the 1850’s The Waltham Watch Company developed machinery that produced interchangeable parts. This influenced the mass production of timepieces on an international scale and consequently privileged a shared time consciousness still felt today. Pace Investigations No. 6 is a yearlong performance artwork that explores Waltham’s role in the mass synchronization of mechanical time, considers pre-colonial understandings of time buried by Industrialization, and proposes ways time might be felt and measured in the future.

Beginning on the 2017 Autumnal equinox, Pace Investigations No. 6 repeats at dawn and dusk on the equinoxes and solstices for a full calendar year. Sited on a public pathway behind the former Waltham Watch Factory, the actions and materials of the performance are site-specific. The duration of the performance adapts to changes in sunrise and sunset times from season to season. As Pace Investigations No. 6 unfolds, the tension between mechanical, cyclical, and felt time becomes palpable.

Pace Investigations No 6.3

March 20, 2018

5:12-6:46 AM and 6:57-8:32 PM EST

Pace Investigations No 6.4

June 21, 2018

2:53-5:0 8AM and 8:25-10:40 PM EST

To view documentation from Pace Investigations No.6.1 (fall) and Pace Investigations No.6.2 (winter) visit: SandrineSchaefer.com 

Pace Investigations No. 6 is supported through a Live Arts Boston Grant through the Boston Foundation and a grant from the Waltham Cultural Council (supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency).