रात दिन दिन रात (Rāta-Dina, Dina- Rāta) Night & Day, Day & Night, Raqs Media Collective (founded 1992)

Instead of numerals, this luminous clock measures the day with 24 Hindi words that describe time and duration written in Devanāgarī script. From concepts of social change, such as “revolution” (krānti, hour 19), to the movement of celestial bodies with “eclipse” (grahaṇ, hour 7), the range of terms combined with the calm glow emanating from the clock convey the variety of ways time can be represented and described. By rendering time with deeply coded, culturally specific terms, “Night & Day, Day & Night” disrupts the dominance of Euro-American timekeeping, presenting the viewer with the daunting diversity of time.