Collaboration with M. Laurinen
Studio Mustanapa, Rovaniemi, 2021
Site-specific installation. Acrylic on canvas (230×470 cm), customized LED light with software, natural stone, stereo sound.
‘200 milliseconds’ refers to the history of science when attempts were made to define a temporal duration of the present moment in terms of conscious awareness, to divide the indivisible into quantifiable units. At the same time, the exhibition title is a reference to the ubiquitous state of impermanence and change. It falls beyond our immediate perceptual faculties but nonetheless is something in which we are ourselves constantly ‘happening’.
In Czinege & Laurinen’s site-specific installation the visitor descends into a black room engulfed in an ongoing stream of events, for which time provides no fixed anchor point. The ceaselessly changing situation resembles a weird flux of indefinable processes, a recurring continuum, where one perceptual event cannot be distinguished from another and yet, where nothing is one and the same.
