2 Moments of Wonder in Time and Space (2024) Object is in the collection of the 24hrs of Wonder
When I was asked by the 24hrs of Wonder project, to make a record about moments of wonder in my life, I thought of the worn ‘the best of Leonard Cohen’ record I had saved without owning a working record player.
Somewhere in late 2000, I was standing in the desert of Australia in front of a small cave. It was early in the morning before the heat would take charge. I played this record on my disc-man and watched the sun come up over the rocks.
24 years later, I was filming a video-work in the Arctic desert of Svalbard, close to the North Pole. I was laying on the ground in the strange Martian-like landscape we were visiting for the day, and thought about this other moment in time, seemingly centuries ago. The camera was panning by, as I realized that these moments were connected to each other through time and space. I had even called my new video triptych ‘The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away’, a line I had shamelessly borrowed from Cohen’s song ‘Democracy’ on the ‘The Future’ record.
So I worked with the actual record to create this record of ‘2 Moments of wonder in time and space’ There is a small grey spot, below the video still I worked into the record, made from actual sand from that location.
Photo's: Peter Cox
24 Hours of Wonder project: An Invitational, perpetual, global art installation devised by Leticia Bajuyo and Sabine Senft
24 Hours of Wonder is a growing archive and a collective art installation that links together multiple artists through interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration.
This project started when artists Leticia Bajuyo’s and Sabine Senft’s proposal was selected for the “Eisenwunderwelt” exhibition in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in September of 2022.
Like a chain letter, invitations were sent which lead to more invitations sent until we reached 24 artworks. The primary focus of invitation is to create a “record” depicting or describing a moment of wonder in the past, present or future of your culture, heritage or life. Artists could choose any medium that inspires wonder and 2D, 3D, digital art, music or poetry….all are welcome. The size of a 12" LP record was chosen as a global item of reference and in a nod to Berlin's DJ culture.
In addition to the inaugural installation in Germany, Leticia and Sabine are creating and maintaining this online archive of 24 Hours of Wonder. The goal is to grow this installation into a traveling exhibition with each exhibit adding a half Day of Wonder = 12 more artist records. Alongside the growing archive and traveling exhibition, this website would complement it with a growing online archive.
