90" to Midnight, installation.
Video projection on German cuckoo from the 1940s, 175 x 220 cm
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic instrument created in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to measure, through the study of probability, the distance between the present and the apocalypse.
In 1947, two years after the invention of the atomic bomb, the Doomsday clock showed 7 minutes to the apocalypse.
2023 set the all-time record of 90 seconds.
The project consists of a German cuckoo from the 1940s whose minute hand makes a complete revolution in just 90 seconds.
Once a complete revolution has been made, the hands stop to make room for the cuckoo song. Afterwards, time rewinds on itself and everything repeats all over again.
The mechanism inside the cuckoo was exported and replaced with an Arduino mechanism, made of 3D printed motors and gears.
A video recalls the shape of the historical prototype of the Doomsday Clock and it’s projected above the cuckoo. The video shows fragments of documentaries of climate change and historical events. There are also fragments of an animation created entirely by an artificial intelligence that interpreted the word "Doomsday".
The work presents itself as an alarm, but also as a question: what will we do to rewind the minute hand?
