Latenz, 2022
auditive feedback system for variable spatial situations
audio-visual installation
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The technical symptom of latency is a-synchronicity.
In media technology, a-synchronicity is typically seen as a flaw—an artifact to be avoided, minimised, or hidden, reduced to a level beneath the threshold of perception.
The audio-visual installation Latenz aims to disrupt the illusion of synchronicity between sound and image in everyday media constructions, shifting attention to the space between event and reaction, where cause and effect merge into new contexts.
The digital space of Latenz suspends temporal states such as past, present, and future: a vocal event occurs in the now while simultaneously being archived, creating a doubling of reality in which the human body loses its relevance as a point of reference for privacy and agency.
Instead, it becomes significant only as a continuous producer of data—disintegrating into individual data fragments that are collected and reconnected to generate new meanings.
Dialogical, and thus social, relationships are increasingly initiated and mediated through technology, while the permeable membrane of the technical device serves as the interface between offline and online worlds.
Concept & Performance: Verena Lercher
Voice and Sound: Verena Lercher & Gerriet Krishna Sharma
Camera: Sophia Fenn
Editing: Verena Lercher & Benjamin Müller
Premiere: Sound Chamber Funkhaus Berlin, 2025
