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Installation. 28-minute composition from field recordings and video footage; 2 transducers, 1 x 1.5 m x 1 mm curved iron plate. Commissioned for the exhibition Treffpunkt:Berlin at Arken - Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, 2012

Kirkegaard’s vibration recordings of the heavy mechanical equipment that rotates the large globe at the top of Berlin’s TV tower (Fernsehturm) are fed into a large curved metal plate. Video footage of the city as seen from the tower for one full rotation of the globe is projected on the curved iron plate