lemniskate protuberantia

object, rabbit‘s fur, filling
2008

In the third piece, lemniskate protuberantia, Fegerl condenses the process of intermedial translation into a sculptural work by modelling the infinity symbol in fur. The cipher for eternity is thus carried over into three dimensions and presented as half object, half creature. The fur object is reminiscent of a white rabbit, a creature that can shift between different levels of reality, as we know from Alice in Wonderland. It can suspend the conventional orders of space and time, connecting and merging both times and spaces, both the imaginary and the real.

Fegerl’s approach can be understood as the transmedial development of a motif. Abstract signs are transcribed into the spatial-material, the acoustic into the graphic and vice versa. The transcription process itself constitutes an “asynchronous circuit”, in the sense that it is not directional and does not follow any causal or “synchronous” logic. Rather, one piece leads to the next, with each implicitly participating in the other. Fegerl, not unlike the figure of the rabbit in its mediating and translating capacity, connects diverse medial and semiotic levels. The fur object is no more real than the symbol which precedes it, and vice versa.

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

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