Temporal Deflector

magnetic field, electronic controll, compass
2008

In Temporal Deflector, the first installative part of the “an incertain array of curves” assemblage, Fegerl stages a “locochronometric” system. The artist groups sixty magnetic coils in a circle around a compass and controls the coils at intervals, so that the compass becomes, perforce, a chronometer of linear-metric temporality, of a mechanically generated “infinity” – monotonous, synchronised, repetitive. The measurement of space (the orientation of the compass) converges with, and converts into, the measurement of time in a metrical hybrid. The two categories, understood in classical physics as separate, become a spacetime continuum. The “locochronometer” thus produces an “enforced infinity” (the title of an earlier work of Fegerl’s), which the artist explores further by means of motivic development in the second part of the installation.

Text: David Komary, Asynchronous Ciruits, Galerie Stadtpark Krems, 2008

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