Katrin Hahner's performance is in connection with her participation in the Nordic artists' group exhibition, Mitt rými.
Katrin Hahner is a visual and sound artist living in both Iceland and Germany. She received her MA from the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart in 2006 and the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensse in 2008.
Hahner's installation includes a tent structure that offers protection and intimacy, circular works made of handmade pottery, and a video recording of a mourning ritual, as a tribute to a new state of existence.
The title of the video work Hypercycle Jazz refers to Manfred Eigen's theory of the hypercycle; the idea of sustainable cycles of interconnected processes, where each one acts as an inspiration for the next. This positive feedback loop could be compared to love for a person who has died. Connecting this phenomenon to jazz improvisation suggests a way to understand future behavior and nonlinear dynamics, as well as the unbroken connection of ancestors and kinship with all living things.