Interventions in the office building of the Württembürgischer Insurance Co., 1998
7 objects of shaped acrylic glass overlaid with slide film, hung on steel cables and height-adjustable via winches with timers 50 m long, 50 kg in weight
The light-flooded courtyard of the Württembürgischer Insurance Co is
what the employees working here look out on. If you make insurance the subject of your work, you think in terms of time: future time in which things and conditions enter into transition so that life can change.
The finite measure and the experience of time are two different factors. This realization is one that those working in this building also have. Time is a resource and a determining force in the work process...
Working hours, which is time as experienced by the staff, do not have the constancy of the wandering clock hands, but the compressed brevity of stress, the torturous interminability
of afternoon meetings...
Time, its rhythm and the transformation that occurs within it, its double character
of exact measurement and of subjective experience, was made the theme in the
Württembürgischer Insurance Co.'s new office building.
7 glass feathers traverse the wide space of the courtyard in a slow-motion fall.
The action is completed during one working day.
Via this unvarying rhythm, the employees can read the time from the position
of the feathers. 
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