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People\u2019s Clock by Maarten Baas, Courtesy of Maarten Baas<\/p>\nThe Dutch artist and designer bends our sense of time with a monumental, participatory clock<\/p>\n
People\u2019s Clock by Maarten Baas, Courtesy of Maarten Baas<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re among the tens of millions of passengers who pass through Amsterdam<\/a> Schiphol each year, you\u2019ve likely walked through Lounge 2. And if you did so any time after 2016, you probably stopped in front of a\u00a0very strange clock<\/a>\u00a0conceived by Dutch artist and designer Maarten Baas. In fact, it ran as video: a lone figure painting and deleting the hands, yet keeping real time all the same.<\/p>\n Head through Lounge 1 now\u2014for European\/Schengen flights and transfers\u2014and you\u2019ll meet\u00a0People\u2019s Clock<\/a>, the ambitious new functional work by Baas. A giant cube measuring 2.5 meters per side, it shows the time cleanly across four faces, once again a perfectly working clock in the form of video. Only this time, Baas trades one person for an entire village.<\/p>\n To build it, he enlisted 1,000 people, airport workers and other volunteers, for a 12-hour aerial film shoot in which every participant became part of a genuine performance. A single camera positioned directly overhead captured the choreography from above. Bodies moving in unison form the hour and minute hands, while the second hand falls to a single person running around the perimeter. Most of them work at the airport: baggage handlers, security, cleaning staff and others participated. For Baas, it reads as a tribute to the countless people who keep a machine as delicate and complex as an airport running, every bit as intricate and sophisticated as a clock.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Maarten Baas<\/p>\n He shot it all in a single day and, fittingly, inside one of Schiphol Airport\u2019s hangars. Baas\u2019s playful, irreverent spirit surfaces here too. This landed less as a set and more as a full-blown cultural happening, where volunteers didn\u2019t just feed the video but ate, practiced yoga, played, participated in a screen-printing workshop and more.<\/p>\n People\u2019s Clock extends Baas\u2019s\u00a0Real Time<\/a>\u00a0series, which he launched in 2009 at Milan Design Week<\/a> with\u00a0Sweepers Clock<\/a>, featuring two workers pushing debris into the shape of the hands. From there it grew into the\u00a0Grandfather Clock<\/a>, with a bearded figure repainting the time from inside a brass and bronze cabinet, and public commissions like the\u00a0Paddington Clock<\/a>\u00a0in London<\/a> and the\u00a0Schiphol Clock<\/a>\u00a0that preceded this one. Seventeen years on, the passion holds: that measured time, for all its precision, comes down to people, moving.<\/p>\n People\u2019s Clock by Maarten Baas at Schiphol Airport<\/p>\n \t\tAD SLOT: article_culture_incontent AD SLOT This placeholder is removed when the ad slot is configured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dutch artist and designer bends our sense of time with a monumental, participatory clock People\u2019s Clock by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1094,787,437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46,269088,269089,269090],"class_list":["post-594922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-amsterdam","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-maarten-baas","tag-peoples-clock","tag-schiphol-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TW-Peoples-Clock-2-817x1024.jpg\")
People\u2019s Clock by Maarten Baas, Courtesy of Maarten Baas<\/p>\n
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