Lene Vestergaard Hau

See images here!! About "SIX SAINTS: LENE VESTERGAARD HAU": Is it possible to stop the forwardrunning time in the course of a performance? In this work, I perform an interpretation of Lene Vestergaard Haus feat of freezing a light beam in 2001. Like Lene Vestergaard Hau created a bose-einstein condensate to stop and preserve light, I use "information" as a means to stop time. By documenting my progress, while progressing, I make information behave like a recording material. I gradually turn energy into matter; action into video; gradually slowing down the forward progress of the performance. For each new documentation of the documentation, the interval to the next forward action grows and grows until the whole performance moves so slowly that no action can be detected anymore; stopped in a condensate, that documents its own existence; waiting forever for the next forward movement -   This work is the fourth in a performance series about six famous Danish scientists, who have dealt with light, time and energy. As these matters are weightless and in part invisible, the scientific investigation of them must concern itself with the influence of the observer on the results and the terminology. The questions regarding documentation and observation are easily transferred to performance art and can be investigated with simple means within this artform, which also has time, space and observation as its fundamental premises. . I performed the work as a performanceinstallation at: ACTS Festival, May 2011. Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark. and as a performance lecture at: Performing Science Contest, Giessen, where it was awarded the second prize. . . Read the review in DER SPIEGEL (in German): Read Trine Ross´ recommendation, Politiken.dk (in Danish): Read Mette Garfields recension in Kunsten.nu (in Danish): . Both versions of the work were supported by the Danish Arts Council

"Six Saints: LVH" at "Performing Science", Giessen, Sept. 2011 (20 min)   The jury discussion (20 min). Jury members were: Prof. Gesa Ziemer, Dr. Ingrid Wünning Tschol, Prof. Elisabeth Schweeger, Cord Riechelmann, Prof. Gabriele Klein, Prof. Joachim Jacob, Prof. Hanns Hatt   the award (2 min)