RETROACTION l
Closed circuit video-installation, dimensions variable

Click HERE to see video documentation of RETROACTION l

In a dark room a projector is switched on, a camera records the projection and sends this recording back into the projector, which thus shows its own cone of light and creates feedback. Since the camera is at the same time placed at a 45º angle to the light signal of the projector, a displacement is created that gives a dimension of depth to the recording. If you move inward in front of the lens of the camera, a process of spiral-like organic patterns arises in the combination of the empty light beam, the 45-degree displacement and the physical interaction of the viewer.
The nothingness of the medium and the physicality of the body collide and create a friction that triggers off organic patterns and figures, which end up in kaleidoscopic motion at the epicentre of the projection.
A projector is normally used to show films, representations of reality, but RETROACTION instead exposes the distinctiveness and technical constitution of the projector, which ends up in aestheticized form when it produces its own beautiful pictures.

In July 2008, RETROACTION l was exhibited at the Drawing Room in London in the exhibition, Reconfigure. Due to lighter ligthing conditions, the manifestation of the installation differed significantly from the piece as it was exhibited at Gl. Strand in Copenhagen.
It thus illustrates the flexibility of the piece that reacts – just like a kind of mirror – to the circumstances under which it is presented.

RETROACTION l has been exhibited at Contemporary Art Centre, Gl. Strand in Copenhagen, DK; at the Drawing Room in London, GB; at Gallery Jules Julian in Copenhagen, DK, and in a slighty modified form at Galerie MøllerWitt in Århus, DK.

As of November 2009, RETROACTION l is included in the art collection of the Danish Arts Foundation.