Tyler Brett, Setting Synchronicity: 4 clocks for a remote ambulance station, 2021. Four synchronized battery powered wall clocks maintained by paramedic staff, place name tags for four regionally affiliated BC Emergency Health Services ambulance stations on unceded Kwakwaka’wakw territories of the ’Namgis, Mamalilikulla and Kwakiutl Nations. Edition of 1, Station 132, Sointula. 

Setting Synchronicity exaggerates the logic of time‑zone displays—by applying the same visual language to four nearby ambulance stations that share the same time zone. The result is an intentionally over‑engineered system of order, where identical clocks require constant upkeep—battery swaps, minute‑nudging, periodic “synchronization checks”—to maintain the illusion of regional coordination. Within the rhythms of shift work, the installation becomes a small source of shared humour among coworkers, a low‑stakes ritual that offers levity amid difficult work. What begins as a sober conceptual gesture quickly reveals its own absurdity, doubling as a wry commentary on bureaucracy, proximity, and the everyday labour that underpins artistic practice and the small rituals that hold a workplace together.