Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux

Horloge de miel  is an apparatus composed of blown glass, cameras, honey, computer vision and robotic elements. This apparatus explores decelerated and embodied time, using the viscous flow of honey as our unit of measurement.

TIME
Here, unlike the classic hourglass, the flow of sand being replaced by the uninterrupted flow of a trickle of honey, the counting of time changes from a digital principle (grain, void, grain, void ... 1, 0 , 1, 0…) to an analog principle (continuum without empty space) more faithful, from a psychological point of view, to the sensation that the passage of time imprints on consciousness. The Honey Clock offers an immersive visual and sound experience entirely based on the integration of consciousness into the moment.

The performance : a group of individuals gather around the device in order to collectively experience what Carl Jasper calls “the eternity of the present”. According to the philosopher, the present is the only real moment, where being is in immediate connection with reality, past and future existing only as vague and uncertain ideas. The Honey Clock is actually an anti-clock, in the productivist sense of the word, instead of capitalizing on the fragmentation of duration, it offers a meditation that immerses consciousness in an entropic stretch of the present moment.

The Honey Clock collaborators: 
Patrice Coulombe - Programming
Guillaume Arsenault - Robotics
Jean-Simon Trottier - Glass blower
Atelier Gagné - Milling shop

Exhibitions :

Miel du Temps (première) at Musée d'art de Joliette, Quebec, (Canada) 2024.

Plural Art Fair, Old Port of Montreal, April 2025.

The creation of the Honey Clock has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec.

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