I didn’t start to understand this chapter fully until about the third page because there were too many differing expressions about the ambiguous topic of time. It really got me thinking about the exhibition Crying Men by artist Sam Taylor-Wood, in particular, the installation of David Beckham sleeping but I didn’t know why. However, when I reached the part on Bruce Nauman, the chapter became clear. Sam Taylor-Wood, like Nauman has redirected our attention to the minute events that occur when seemingly nothing is happening.[1] Taylor-Wood has captured reel time and real time together, the unedited and the unmediated by surveilling.[2] Famous sportsman, David Beckham is shown, in her installation, at his most vulnerable. She has cleverly made the uneventful, tiny event become magnified.[3] There is ofcourse, nothing new about this approach- see Warhols’ Sleep.[4] The entire exhibition is focused on the subject of time and I think we are all fascinated by it. Time is something we cannot control but would like to very much and perhaps, this is our way of pretending we can.
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