‘200 milliseconds’ refers to the history of science and attempts to define a temporal duration of the present moment in terms of conscious awareness, to divide the indivisible into quantifiable units. At the same time, the exhibition title is a reference to the ubiquitous state of impermanence and change. It falls beyond our immediate perceptual faculties but nonetheless is something in which we are ourselves constantly ‘happening’.
In Czinege & Laurinen’s site-specific installation the visitor descends into a black room engulfed in an ongoing stream of events, for which time provides no fixed anchor point. The ceaselessly changing situation resembles a weird flux of indefinable processes, a recurring continuum, where one perceptual event cannot be distinguished from another, and yet, where nothing is one and the same.
The exhibition and the artists' work were supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation.