ce: 060609

Interactive theater // Intervention

“Meet time. It’s quite the renaissance conundrum. We keep it, manage it, run after it, run out of it, and we can’t seem to get enough of it. But what if? We turn it upside down; we unset it, we release it. Who’s in charge here? Has time created us, or have we created time? Has time kept us or is time ours to keep?

Deconstructing discourses around time, this collective experiment, was a time travelling journey for 99 individuals, called “060609.”

In writing this scripted 14 hour time travelling experience, Samina examines sensibilities around time, where notions of time are provoked and reinvented. Aboard the wonderland on wheels, 99 passengers were invited to become part of the investigation, each selected personally by being sent a red key in the mail.

Working with visual artist Irmak Canevi, the duo converted a double decker bus into a time capsule, positioning installations inside the bus, and experiments on boards, exploring the cyclical and mechanical functions of time, with specific reference to 6s and 9s.

Through a series riddles about time, participants were allured into an ephemeral narrative that induced each one into becoming a time traveller, with elements designed to create an environment of self-inquiry. 

New York based performers were invited to participate with their interpretations of time, including brassband musicians, tribal drummers, a cabaret performer, an opera singer, and a drag king.

On june 6th, 2009, all 99 passengers boarded their urban crusade which disrupted the streets of New York, staging provocations in 5 specific venues.

The city was the canvas; the passengers, the time explorers; the bus, the time capsule. 
Passengers were challenged to make their own time, or make time their own. 
Project link: 060609