In his extensive oeuvre and in various media Mladen Stilinović mirrors and questions the ideological signs which condition a society. Among many political signs, the figure of the artist and the relationship between labor, creativity, and cultural value further permeate his work. Destabilizing strategies have remained a major component of his practice as he has called into question ideological power created by and maintained through symbolism, bureaucracy and language. In his two last films, Time 1 and Time 2, Stilinović films a clock, i.e. clockwise motion. In 1979 he published his book I Have No Time, in which he obsessively writes and rewrites the title, as an ironic and serious comment on one of the most uttered phrases. “People who had no time always got on my nerves. Today in particular, the excuse of not having time has become the worst kind of rhetoric. Today time is being wiped out as an element of the city, the street, anything at all.” (Mladen Stilinović)
