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| ALGECIRAS–TANGIERS A Time Lag in the Gibraltar Straight "On/Of Paper" Department of Architecture Faculty Exhibit Willard Rouse Gallery, Stuckeman Family Building The Pennsylvania State University 2019... PRESS – PENN STATE NEWS |
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The experiment is carried out in the spring of 2007. Objective: to record time lapse perception against measured time at precise yet circumstantial intervals during the crossing of the Gibraltar Straight, from Algeciras to Tangiers and back. A skipped meal, the delayed arrival of a ferry, an unexpected storm, the loss of luggage… all cause a discrepancy between the time of the clock and time perceived. The variance between objective and subjective time generates the data the project plays upon.
The proposal designs a knot—geographic, temporal—in the traveler's journey. It intends to create place amid two poles that represent the social, economic, and cultural tension between two continents. The interval implies a disturbance of time perceived, a modified experience of crossing, and a renovated understanding of the divide.
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