bergernissen aka Alisa Berger and Lena Ditte Nissen work in the field of performance, happening and installation. The material of their work are group processes, collectively experienced realities and their relationship to cultural institutions. The illusionistic potential of film and cinema is a source of inspiration for the development of their performances and happenings that simulate realities. At the turning point where reason could destroy the illusion, the deception is consolidated to the point of being incorruptible, while at the same time the illusion seems fragile in exactly the places where it should appear consistent and self-evident.

The artists constructed a fake suspended ceiling and installed a fog machine within it, which directed its smoke through a smoke detector.

The work, that quickly reminds the viewer of a sort of gas chamber with office aesthetics, reflects on the themes of security and alertness as a premise for the destruction of freedom. In recent years, freedom and security have often been juxtaposed in the European media in order to adress masses of the society with the ideas of surveillance.