Kirsten Johannsen
«The Aeonian Concert»

Five small LCD monitors are suspended between ceiling and floor by steel ropes, in front of them circular magnifying glasses. The configuration is derived from the pentatonic system limited to five notes in the spaces between octaves; this system was the basis of the glass harp music which was once considered divine and is now piped into the installation space. As a visual link to the background radiation resulting from the cosmic rays of the big explosion that ever since has been expanding the universe, like an inflated balloon, in every direction, Kirsten Johannsen shows on the LCD monitors the black-and-white dots of light, the ‘white noise', it is still possible to receive on TV sets that are not hooked up to a cable network.
Kirsten Johannsen's work circles around the flowing and ebbing, but no less so the standstill and infiniteness, of time. Personal history, confrontation with nature, and questions about the validity of a physical-linear understanding of time act as the interface at which she develops a poetic visualization of time.