STILL, SUN

40X60 cm, C-print, mounted on aluminim, edition of 5+1 AP

 

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THE GOLDBERG VARIATION (2012)
Konstfrämjandet Bergslagen, Örebro

The new works by Jesper Norda currently presented at Konstfrämjandet Örebro revolves around the concept of time, or rather the interstices, those that we constantly experience but never think about. Using methods as printed pages with all the seconds of a day and night, where the blackness of the ink varies according to the solar power, we are made aware of these gaps. By converting one medium to another we get insight into the invisible but essential components that create the space that we exist in, and in particular the perceptual process that we experience it with. Abstract substances often form the backbone of Jesper's work, such as the frequency of a sound wave and how it affects us, but especially the time it takes for a sound wave to travel, the vibrations it creates or the traces after a sound has subsided. The silence is as important as the sound. The illusion only illustrates reality. With a parallel career as a sound producer and composer with three solo albums behind him, Jesper's sensitivity to the rhythm and the silence in between is a detailed game of pulling apart and putting together. A calculated order re-organizes experiences to clockworks, where mechanically depicted words create mental images, or where every note becomes deserted and left to echo out alone, accompanied by a sunrise that lasts for 13 hours. Reduced to abstraction and the colors black and white, the room lights up, slowly and patiently, pixel by pixel. Time is eminently physical, and no moment is ever the same. Everything changes, all the time, with the tremendous power of a progressive movement.
Sofia Mavroudis, curator, www.curareart.com

 

 

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THE GOLDBERG VARIATION / 13 HOUR SUNRISE

Sound (12 hours 25 minutes) / HD-video (12 hours 48 minutes)

Video, excerpts, 1 minute/hour

The Goldberg Variation is based on JS Bach's works Goldberg Variations. Each note / impact is played every two seconds. The dynamics are equalized, all drama and musical direction is removed. The original work is about 30 minutes, this version is 12 hours and 25 minutes.

13 hour sunrise: a black surface where a line of 33 pixels turn white every two seconds. From left to right, top to bottom.
A horizon and a room that very slowly gets brighter.

MAGNOLIA CLOCK

HD-video, no sound (11 hours 17 minutes 41 seconds)

Installation view, (Sound: The Goldberg variation. In the background: 13 hour sunrise)

Magnolia clock consists of all the words in the script for the film Magnolia by PT Anderson.
The words line up one by one, second by second.

MAGNOLIA CLOCK

HD-video, no sound (11 hours 17 minutes 41 seconds)

Excerpt  (2.44 min)

17 DECEMBER 2011

193 A4 pages. Inkjet print, paper: mohawk matte, edition of 5+1 AP

All the seconds in a day in a time code, presented as a stack of paper on a podium.
The blackness of the ink "follow" the rise and setting of the sun december 17, 2011.