An installation of David Eagleman's short story 'Sum'. The story imagines an afterlife in which you re-live your life when you die, but not sequentially. Instead you experience all activities grouped into distinct chunks of time. You spend 7 years in the supermarket, 2 years loading the dishwasher, 8 months trying to remember the name of someone you're supposed to know etc....
The installation featured hand printed time cards for each of the activities listed in the story, as well as a printed version of the story. People were invited to punch out the amount of time they feel they have spent doing the tasks and activities listed on each card in their lives. By the end of the exhibition the punches gathered in a pile under the cards.
The interactive approach and use of hand printed cards created a tactile experience that offers a reflection on our perceptions of time.
Featured in WIRED Magazine’s Graduate Roundup and included in the Best Of Show exhibition, UAL, 2010.
