Capturing the vastness of time, space, and the origins of man is an ambitious task, and one that many philosophers have attempted in words. In Timee, an A/V installation, artist Guillaume Marmin and musician Philippe Gordiani try to tackle some of the same big, heady concepts using a projector, a haze machine and a hole-filled wall.
Timee is based off Plato’s “Timaeus,” the famous dialogue in which the philosopher explores the creation of the universe. More specifically, the installation looks at Plato’s philosophical concept of Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres, which regards the movement of the celestial bodies as having tones. The system Plato describes is comprised of 7 planets, each one with its own tone based on its orbital revolution. In other words, Plato reasoned that the universe could be viewed as a perfect musical score.
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