Jeremy Isao Speier

MIJ: MADE IN JAPAN, (2006-2009)

A lot of my work is about duration - time and space, perception and memory. My kinetic work is visceral. I play with time and space and with the accumulation of time periods, and with the manipulation of time psychologically with the object in my kinetic work, or with scene-duration in my cinematic work.

I construct a fictional time that is leading the relationship with a subtext, utilizing nostalgia as a strategy, not just as nostalgia. I am working with the fragmentation of time, matter, and memory. I am interested in layers of time and space and the multiplicity of duration, which is heterogeneous.

Duration which in reality is incomplete and continuously growing with states not beginning or ending, but intermingling with one another, unextended, mobile and continuously interpenetrating itself.1 We have reached a difficult crossroads in the digital world, but it is in the duration that we can speak of the experience of freedom, and the inner life of man.2


1. Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction To Metaphysics. Pages 163 to 165.
2. Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An essay on the Immediate Data Of Consciousness, 1910.
    Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction To Metaphysics. Pages 10 to 14.