TIME TO BE HAPPY

The Time To Be Happy Project delivers a simple message; Happiness - Lives outside of time and space.

When we think of time, we usually think of it in relation to space. The "where" and "when" are often collocated to contextualize one's position. Yet, what is the value of time itself within this time-space relation? Eternalistic thought examines time as a singular unit, in which past, present, and future are equally real and exist simultaneously; it regards time as the fourth dimension to our three-dimensional existence, highlighting how we wander between spaces and times, all existent, all possible.

In this constant drift between spaces and times, humans have created a machine to visualize the passing of time – a clock. Yet the clock generates an illusion – it does not control time itself, but only marks the time that had passed. Expressing a linear progression of time, it sets our understanding of time as flat and two-dimensional, preventing us from looking beyond the "now", "then" and "later", and notice their concurrent existence.

Time to Be Happy fosters the Eternalistic approach and visualizes it – combining both past, present, and future in one artwork, without prioritizing one moment over the other. In a sense, it allows the viewer to take a step back from the linear, predictable passage of time. Like a vintage-futuristic time machine, the work transcends time, or works through it, to observe space and time in their abstract form, and becomes timeless.

TIME TO BE HAPPY

All clocks featured in this project are IBM originals and were made between the years 1912 to 1930.

All clocks include 90 minutes of video art content featuring 50 artists Benzi filmed and collaborated with.