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INSTALLATION / MEDIA SPACE / SETTING : Thomas J. Jelinek
OPENING :
welcome Gisela Weißenbach-Abraham
Opening speech Andreas Spiegl
SOUND - PERFORMANCE Michael Fischer
e.S.e.L © Joana Pianka
Spiegl, Abraham, Jelinek © 2026 GGA/tom thoermer
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processes of
D I S S O L U T I O N decay
R E S O L U T I O N scaling
AUFLÖSUNG
is a „sitespecific Installation“
by Thomas J. Jelinek
A accessible observation laboratory of a fragmented and fragmentary landscape, consisting of data traces and artefacts in various scales and states, in a contextually variable light space created by superimposed video projections.
The installation consists of apparatus, magnifying devices and scaled images that zoom in and out of processes and events –
changing their resolution – sketches and data sets from research processes, which are also scaled in terms of information volume.
This installed laboratory displays an incomplete or partially destroyed multimedia library of images, texts, memories, data traces and artefacts.
Objects that only become visible and legible through magnification, viewing through a magnifying glass or microscope, revealing their state of destruction or actual information.
The levels of observation of data traces, cytological and microstructural processes are contrasted with a macroscopic space of light projections that overlays the laboratory space of small, sometimes microscopic scales.
The images created – from overlapping projections using a 3D process – show the traces of human activity on a macroscopic and planetary scale.
The interference patterns generated by the superimposition reveal not only structural but also contextual relationships.
‘THE LEGACY’ Installation / Material Christmas trees /
Trunks of spruce trees collected from the 1970s onwards. A discovery in my father's ‘estate’.
Thomas J. Jelinek / 2026
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LIFE TRACE on tar, oil and sand
Thomas J. Jelinek / 1995
We write history every day, each and every one of us creates reality.
Every minute.
Every second, entropy increases.
Every second, contrary to the pull of dissolution, processes on an atomic, molecular and macroscopic scale develop movement and evolution, which we call life in amino acid-based processes.
Being and seeing can only exist in the process without which nothing is. What we call life is a constant process of change.
N I C H T S B L E I B T = N O T H I N G S T A Y S
Those who want the world to remain as it is do not want it to remain.
Erich Fried
At present, the fatal and deadly consequences of the desire for stagnation or a return to past conditions, which certainly never existed and, according to the laws of thermodynamics – the progression of entropy – are physically impossible, are becoming apparent, particularly at the political level.
Only as long as we are in motion are we alive.
And so nothing remains - as long as we are.
Space - time traces
The process is movement, and this leaves traces.
The components of space, time and dimension can only be read
if the lens is set to the appropriate -
i.e. corresponding focal length.
We only ever see as much as we know, but at the same time we learn through seeing. Since seeing is a cognitive act, it is both a solution and a problem.
Entropy and gravitational processes
Researchers of recent studies estimate that the average person in the 18th century processed about as much external information in their entire lifetime
as a person today does in a single day.
The feeling of acceleration and loss of control, such as cognitive overload, may be a trigger for many socially and politically problematic to dangerous processes of the present.
But the range of our scaling possibilities has also brought us to the limits of what was previously conceivable, exponentially increasing the density of information but also expanding the horizon of knowledge by light years and up to Planck time.
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