The Artists Play with Time project began in 2022 with an installation by Ingrid Ene – an instrument made of old clocks connected through contact microphones. The mechanical ticking could be shaped, combined with the human voice, or integrated with other musical instruments, becoming the starting point for artists from Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Bucharest, and several residency programs to create their own compositions. Their recordings were collected on the online platform www.artistplaywithtime.ro, and during the opening event the cassette collection from the first edition will be presented. For its second edition, the project emphasized its inherently mobile and expansive nature by envisioning an open-ended creative network. Within this framework, the artistic object could travel indefinitely, without a fixed route or any appointed nodes from a centre. Over the past few months, the clock-based sound installation has functioned as a mobile instrument, passed along by a spontaneously formed network of artists. This network expanded through association, as each participant invited another artist to join the project. Ingrid Ene started by sending the installation to Andreea Vlăduț, who then passed it on to Florine Mougel—thus expanding the network. Each artist received the installation by mail, used it to create a sound performance, action, or impulse, and then mailed it to another artist of their choosing to continue the process. During the installation's circulation, two invited artists—Lăcră Grozăvescu (working with textiles, photography, and family archives) and Cătălina Gubandru (who engages with body, text, and objects in participatory configurations) responded to the sound pieces arriving from the network. They developed new or acted upon existing projects inspired by the audio material. In this way, the project remained true to its original impulse: associative connectivity. Rather than encouraging clearly defined projects in response to a single theme for a short-term exhibition, the project fosters real and imaginary, human–nonhuman, social and artistic connections within a long-term framework. Artists use the provided artistic object as a creative tool. In turn, their sound-based responses become triggers that inspire or challenge other existing or emerging art projects. In this way, the works open pathways for experimental dialogue and uncover connections between participants. At the same time, the network gathers fragments of life into an idea, reshapes ordinary objects and sounds into instruments and allows past contributions to settle into imaginative impulses that inspire future actions. During the opening night, visitors will have the opportunity to take part in an interactive performative action, where they can taste drinks created and selected by the artists participating in the 2025 edition. Each drink carries a nostalgic character and is designed to act as a memory trigger, evoking personal recollections or significant moments from the participants’ lives, creating a dialogue between individual experiences and the creative universe of the installation.