Together with a group of Vienna-based performers, Japanese-Austrian artist Michikazu Matsune has developed a new work that deals with the power and impact of time. In Nothing is Something like Everything, there is a large countdown clock on stage – counting down every single second of an entire hour. 3,600 seconds of our collective experience of a never-graspable present. When have we started failing like this? When will all these problems end? Flowers bloom vividly, bread turns rock hard. Examining small details in our everyday lives, the performance reflects the logic and illogic of time, and raises universal and philosophical questions about our past and future. Together we share time, use time and lose time, until we individually and collectively reach the point of absolute oblivion. A journey into everythingness and nothingness. In his practice, characterised as both critical and playful at the same time, Michikazu Matsune examines the tension around our cultural ascriptions and social identifications. His work ranges from stage performances and interventions in public and private spaces to instruction pieces and conversation projects. At the crossroads between conceptual and documentary approaches in which poetry, humour, the absurd, and criticism meet, his distinctive method deals with the friction between identity and globalisation, action and language, the public and the private.