In Hjallerup, he has created a sculpture that consists of a circular corridor constructed of a wooden framework rotating on its own axis. The corridor is encircled externally by a series of wooden posts that, depending on your angle, either shield or open up a view into the sculpture’s inner space. Two openings lead into the corridor that unfolds as a dynamic spatial and acoustic passage. When you step into the corridor, which twists and turns in your gaze, you are tempted to move through and around in the corridor. The wooden framework creates a flickering pattern of lines that shifts with your movement. And depending on the direction of your gaze, the corridor is experienced alternately as an open and a private, intimate space.
The sound in the sculpture is a special dimension of the work. Footsteps and voices in the corridor and the surroundings are recorded by built-in microphones, while electrodynamic vibration units built into the wooden construction reproduce the sounds in a number of the wooden frameworks and posts. Thus, movement in and around the sculpture activates it as a sort of instrument. The reproduction is controlled by computer and programmed by the artist in such a way that the work creates echoes of its users and the life around the artwork.
ECHO is a work of art in which users with their active, physical participation become co-creators of the work. For those who live in the town, it is a free space for experiment and investigation of body and perception and a space for recollection and reflection. For guests in town, a visit to the artwork is a way of encountering the history of the town as it is created at any time by those who participate actively in town life.
- Peter Kirkhoff Eriksen
https://vores.kunst.dk/en/objects/11689/ekko?ctx=6cda47bb-ba35-4163-a51b-23cd493d104a&idx=4 (07.03.2021)