7 Minutes 20 Seconds

The installation 7 Minutes 20 Seconds is a site-specific collaboration between Johannes GIRARDONI and Astrid STEINER. Two perpetually looped multi-media works investigate the relationship between perceptual phenomena and narrative imaging by layering opposite projections – pure light and video – into a spatial-temporal setting.

The installation is composed of two projected sequences:
The video is a visual metaphor of a dialogue between Alice in Wonderland and the Caterpillar. It refers to the different aspects of self-perception and identity in contrast to societal projection. Audio-visual analogies describe the redefining of identity, a process accompanied by the bitter feeling of shrinking as well as the liberating experience of growing.
The LED and sound projection sequence investigates the boundary between manufactured states and perceptual events. Visual planes open and close depending on the viewers’ position within the work’s layered setting, creating a constantly shifting environment. The electromagnetic waves of red and blue light are transposed onto mechanical waves of sound, revibrating light waves into sound waves, making purple “audible.”