Zachary B. Feldman

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management

Whitney Independent Study Program

Artists Space, New York, NY

Co-curator (with KJ Abudu, Emily Small, and Johanna Thorell)


A color film still depicting a person who walks up a dirt path carrying a myriad of empty plastic bottles. To the person's right is a billboard facing away from the camera

Still from Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Kobby Adi, Julieta Aranda, Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle, Yto Barrada, Black Quantum Futurism, Helen Cammock, Maria Chávez, Kajsa Dahlberg, Kevin Jerome Everson, Brendan Fernandes, ektor garcia, Hicham Gardaf, Gerard & Kelly, Simon Gush, Sky Hopinka, Clare Hu, Samson Kambalu, Karrabing Film Collective, Victor Masayesva, Jr., Rosalind Nashashibi, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Finnegan Shannon, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management challenges the dominant modern conception of time as objective, divisible, and linear. Situating the global imposition of this naturalized temporal order alongside the advent of Western capitalist modernity and the implementation of standardized clock time, the exhibition explores how time is represented, lived, and contested in the catastrophic present.

Presenting speculative, historical, and already-existing alternatives to the dominant temporal regime, the exhibition gestures towards a Time Beyond Management—a time outside of imposed regimentations, imperatives to productivity, and self-inflicted time management. The works on view foreground the orchestration of time as a site of struggle and critique, moving away from linear, progressive conceptions of time that historically and continuously enable interlocking systems of social, political, and economic domination. Spanning decolonial and Indigenous temporalities, alternative time-based economies, queered timekeeping devices, and materializations of interwoven time in textile practices, the exhibition resists the tendency towards a singular counter-hegemonic solution. Clocking Out is ultimately an invitation to imagine liberatory futures unhinged from the clock’s regulative hold on everyday life.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management encompasses a gallery exhibition, a performance program, and a reading room at Artists Space as well as a film program at e-flux Screening Room. More information on the screening times and location here.

More information here.


Photograph of a well-lit gallery space at the bottom of a staircase, with a glass vitrine on the left wall containing ephemera.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a glass vitrine sitting against a wall, containing ephemera, and a graphic poster on the left that reads "Dissolve the Arrow of Progress! Recreate Local Space-Times!"

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Time Zone Protocols, Black Quantum Futurism, 2022; vitrine of archival time-banking materials), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of the hallway entrance into a basement gallery space. Along the left wall is a clock card machine and time card rack, vinyl text, and a pedestal with printed materials placed on top of it.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Simon Gush, Clocking In, 2013), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a well lit gallery, with various multimedia works placed around the space, projected against the walls, and hanging on the walls.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo

Photograph of the left wall of a basement gallery space. In the back nook is a reading room with reading materials displayed on a shelf and a table with seats around it. Further down the wall are multiple projected videos, the projectors are placed on shelves of varying height in a row.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo

Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works displayed. In the center is a large wooden platform placed on the floor. Along the back wall is a projected video, a grid of works on paper, and a woven hanging piece.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo

Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works on display. In the center is a large wooden platform that reads along one side "Imagine/ Without Fear/ What is tomorrow?", to the left is a wooden bench painted blue on the surface sitting next to a woven hanging piece. Along the walls are various projected videos.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a basement gallery space with various multimedia works on display. In the left back corner is a reading room, and in the center is a large wooden platform, a wooden bench painted blue, and a woven hanging.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a corner of a basement gallery. A wooden bench, painted blue on the surface, sits between two columns. The back of the bench reads "THIS EXHIBITION HAS ASKED / ME TO STAND FOR TOO LONG." A woven piece hangs from the ceiling to the right. Behind the bench are projectors facing the wall at varying heights.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Samson Kambalu, Nyau Cinema, 2014 - ongoing; Finnegan Shannon, Do you want us here or not, 2018; Kevin Jerome Everson, Workers Leaving the Job Site, 2013; Clare Hu, Perimeter, 2022), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a corner of a basement gallery space with large columns along the back. Behind the columns are benches placed in front of video displays. On the right is a CRT TV monitor, and to the left is a projected video.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Simon Gush, Sunday Light, 2013 / Without Light, 2016; Victor Masayesva Jr., Itam Hakim, Hopiit. 1984; ektor garcia, portal DF/SF, 2021; ektor garcia, textile bronceado, 2023), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of one wall of a gallery. In the center of the wall are three TV flatscreens playing different synchronized videos. In front of the flatscreens is a large wooden platform with a piece of marley floor on it that can be written on. To the right on the wall is a small vitrine with a matchbox.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view (Brendan Fernandes, A Solo Until We Can Dance Again, 2021; Sky Hopinka, In Dreams & Autumn, 2021; Kobby Adi, Whiskey, 2022), Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a reading room, with graphic posters and shelves displaying reading materials along the walls. In the center is a long table with seats around it.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a corner of a gallery, with printed and woven works along one wall, next to a row of TV flatscreens on another wall. In the center of the space is a large wooden platform.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.

Photograph of a glass vitrine containing various archival time-banking ephemera.

Clocking Out: Time Beyond Management. Installation view, Artists Space, 2023. Photo: Greg Carideo.