Speed Kills is a video-sculpture that examines different layers of speed and perception by shifting between dimensions. The sculpture has the shape of a tadpole figure. The figure drawn by young children consisting of head, arm and legs, the body is missing. In the “head” of the sculpture there is a monitor showing a still of a hand woven textile. On the textile there is an animated clock counting from 60 minutes to 0, when it reaches 0, the image switches and a formula 1-car pass by. The car passes in a split second and silence shift to ear-splitting motor noise. The image swaps back to the mute textile and the clock start it’s countdown again.

The combination of static object and promising video is used to raise questions about the development of speed. The countdown signals to the viewer that something will happen. The anti climax of the few video-frames representing change, talks about expectations and impatience as a barrier for first-hand experience and reflection.