Emily DiCarlo’s interdisciplinary work merges visual representations of time with the affective qualities of duration. She rests on the floor of Canada’s official time dissemination room at the National Research Council to protest 24/7 clock time; airmails postcards westward from the Arctic Circle to chase and keep pace with a setting sun; choreographs groups to think like fungi and speak in spores; creates choirs from global talking clock hotline services; and executes “time-specific” performance-for-videos to manipulate the absurdity of Daylight Saving Time. Her writing runs parallel with her visual practice and explores the sociopolitical implications of predominate time structures in contrast to alternative temporalities through the perspectives of feminist phenomenology, queer time theory and more-than-human ontologies.
Emily DiCarlo is an artist, researcher, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice considers site, temporality and collaboration as the foundational principles for meaning-making. Evidenced through video, installation, text and performance, her work connects the infrastructure of time with the intimacy of duration. She is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Canada Arts Council Research-Creation grant, the 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize and held the 2019-2020 Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research grant (SSHRC). Since 2016, she has served as a council member for the International Society for the Study of Time recently contributed her chapter, “Transcending Temporal Variance: Time Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site,” to the current volume of The Study of Time (Brill Publishing). She lives and works in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Canada.
Emily DiCarlo's residency at NARS is made possible by Canada Council for the Arts.
