We are also currently in discussion with Toril Johannessen about a
provisional work for the programme – confirmation of this project will
follow later in 2012, due to the artist’s current commitments.
Toril Johannessen
Toril Johannessen lives and works in Bergen. Her most recent
exhibition, Nonlocality, in Oslo and Dusseldorf revolved around how time
and place are variables that change according to technological and
scientific developments. The work Mean Time, 2011 is controlled by a
computer, which continuously retrieves information about traffic on the
Internet and the speed of the dials is determined by the global Internet
activity. When the activity on the Internet is high, the clocks go
faster, when the activity is lower, they go slower. The clocks will
therefore be guided by human activity, and not be defined by an
“invisible hand” or fluctuations in crystals or atoms. The clocks are
railway station clocks with two clock faces. Efforts to synchronize and
standardize, not to mention establishing a global time is historically
linked to the development of the railway network by the end of the
1800s, a process that is also related to the unfolding of capitalism and
ideas of progress. Other recent group exhibitions include: Space. About
a Dream at Kunsthalle Wien, The End of Money at Witte de With in
Rotterdam, Run, Comrade, The Old World is Behind You, Kunsthall Oslo,
all in 2011.