David Lamelas Brings His Iconic Conceptual Performance Back to Life—Over Zoom

Argentinian artist David Lamelas’s artwork Time, in which people standing in a line say the exact time out loud in sixty second intervals, has been reenacted numerous times since he debuted the piece in the French Alps in 1970, but never during a pandemic lockdown—until now. This week, Art Basel’s virtual programming includes an online recreation of Lamelas’s piece, in the viewing room of Brussels gallery Jan Mot, with caveats to address the “new normal.” Twen