- Polymer foam, carbon, muscle-wire®, self-built Lehman seismograph, geophone, and custom electronics.

The overall basis for Kerstin Ergenzinger’s kinetic installation is a continuous observation of natural phenomena. Her works relate to their spatial surroundings and to sense-based cognition. Technology is used to render visible that which we rarely notice in nature. The works simulate the movements and cycles of nature, and at the same time the presence of an audience is always a crucial factor for the completion of her works.

A mountain-like landscape pulsating as if alive. This is what Kerstin Ergenzinger presents her audience with as they encounter the work Study for longing/seeing. The work is a reactive installation using data from seismographs and sensor-based structures to simulate a landscape and its changes.

The installation responds partly to movements in the earth outside the exhibition building, and partly to audience movements in the exhibition room itself. It establishes, then, a mutual transfer of sensory impressions between the two sensing entities: human beings and the work of art. The earth is an organism which lives its own life, but is affected by the presence of human beings. In other words: As we ‘touch’ and sense the mountain, we change it.

Slide mechanics and Muscle-Wire sponsored by igus GmbH and Dynalloy, Inc.

Kerstin Ergenzinger er født i Reutlingen i Tyskland. Hun er uddannet på bl.a. på Universität der Künste og Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln i Berlin og Chelsea College of Art and Design i London. Kerstin Ergenzinger arbejder med grænserne mellem virkelighed og konstrueret virkelighed. Hendes værker bygger på den anskuelse, at menneskets perception af virkeligheden er baseret på stabilitet og jordnærhed, og at vi altid vil forsøge at holde os til en simpel forståelse af verden. Det er denne forståelse af verden som Ergenzinger forsøger at udfordre med sine værker. Kerstin Ergenzinger arbejder både med kinetiske installationer, billed- og videokunst og har udstillet i blandt andet London, Berlin og Köln.