The Medical Museion in Copenhagen has commissioned Jacob Kirkegaard to create a work focusing on issues discussed at the conference "Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body" held in September 2007.

LABYRINTHITIS

For his new sound piece, Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his ears inwards: Labyrinthitis consists enirely of sounds generated in Kirkegaard’s own ears.

Deep inside the labyrinth of the inner ear in a spiral tube called ‘cochlea’ there are thousands of microscopic hair cells functioning as sensory receptors. When sound enters the ear, they begin to vibrate in the watery liquid surrounding them like underwater piano strings. Thus, the ...