Hillside Projects

The Scavenger Collapse, 2021 (ambulating performance)

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This 30-minute lecture performance departs from the story of the Indian vulture and the consequences of a failed symbiosis. Socio-political narratives on death and hierarchies are woven together with stories about food, eating, and fascism told with the aid of a cassette player, live drawing, food, and mind maps.

The lecture performance is mobile, with a performer visiting homes, offices, galleries, and institutions, thus creating an intimate encounter between the performer and the audience (of no more than four people).

This work was developed and first presented during an artist residency at SEA Foundation in Tilburg (NE) in early spring 2021 as a response to the restrictions of COVID lockdowns. Since then, it has continued to be performed in various locations.

Listening, to Kins, 2023

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Listening, to Kins, 2024

Listening, to Kins is a performance of listening to 279 vultures. Seated on a chair, dressed in a brown suit, one member from HP (Hillside Projects) actively listens to a wake of vultures’ tumultuous feast on a carcass, a macabre yet tender act of eating and being eaten, a recycling of life. The performance took place on 25 January 2023 at Jatayu Vulture Restaurant, a vulture conservation project located in Kawasoti in southern Nepal.

The sounds from the feast: hissing, kicking and flapping have, in turn, been transcribed as words that phonetically imitate, resemble, or suggest the sound that they describe, also known as onomatopoeia. The transcribed onomatopoetic words are then presented as subtitles accompanying the video, creating a playful and slightly absurd narration of the act of eating the dead.

This video was produced through generous support during an artist residency in 2023 with PhotoKTM5 at Jatayu Vulture Restaurant in Kawasoti, Nepal, organised by photo.circle Nepal, a platform for photography based in Kathmandu founded in 2007.It was exhibited in Kathmandu as part of the fifth edition of PhotoKTM curated by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Shristi Shrestha, Diwas Raja Kc, Prasiit Sthapit, Irina Giri, Shikhar Bhattarai.

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The Scavenger Collapse, 2023 (video in the making)

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Scavenger Collapse turns its gaze towards the declining vulture population in India and Nepal as it playfully employs the format of BBC educational videos. Following the original public service broadcasting remit “to inform, educate and entertain,” the video is narrated by a female presenter and male performer. It is accompanied by an 80s style soundtrack.

This work explores the consequences of a failed symbiosis and weaves it together with stories of tilting democracies and Britain’s (shameful) colonisation of India, as well as turning the gaze on the presenters themselves.

Made with generous support from Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Från äng till kulle till hav vi gick (From Field to Hill to Sea We Went), 2022

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since 2020 Hillside Projects have been conducting performance walks with larger and smaller groups of varying ages. This specific walk explores different places in the landscape which unite and separate: field and forest, forest and hill, sea and forest, and forest and field. During the walk, we walked solely yet together, in silence and through conversation. In consideration of 70s land art artists, ephemeral works were created using our bodies, natural pigments, the sun and water. Hillside Projects intend to continue these performance walks, weaving notions from their other works and research with a direct response to the specific landscape in which the walks take place.

Från äng till kulle vill hav vi gick (From Field to Hill to Sea We Went) was developed for the exhibition Deras lyckligaste dagar var de mörka och vidsträckta dagarna med regn at Mörby gård konst curated by Camilla Larsson and in the company of artists Simon Blank, Nisrine Boukhari, Leif Elggren, Ida Idaida, Barbara Kozlowska, Éva Mag, Astrid Svangren and Loota Törnroth

Five Views of a Meadow for Heartache, 2022

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A series of monochrome paintings represent five views of a meadow. Painted on canvas with egg oil tempera and natural pigments derived from medicinal plants claimed to be beneficial for the heart (mentally and physically), Five Views of a Meadow for Heartache explores the conceptual properties of painting and notions of heartache.

Can I Become a Vinyl When I Die, 2022

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For several years, Hillside Projects have collected dust and feather residue from taxidermied European Roller birds stored in zoological collections across Sweden. The residue from the birds has then been pressed into bespoke vinyl records in an attempt to “listen” to the dead. The European Roller is a regionally extinct bird in Sweden, and was last seen nesting in the country in 1967. Transforming the findings from the birds into sound is a gesture to consider and listen to more than humans. This work is presented as a performance, appropriating the format of a “record release/listening session.”

The dust findings are pressed into ten unique vinyl records.

All the Birds Killed in Air Strikes in the US between 1990 and 2020, 2022 (work in progress)

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since the 1990s, the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) in the US has collected information on birds killed in collisions with aeroplanes. The FFA’s database covers all the states including information such as bird species, time, weather conditions and location of the crash.

Through applying a system of translating words into musical notes, Hillside Projects are working towards transforming the birds’ deaths into music. This will in turn be played and performed by a band consisting of Hillside Projects and artist/musician Jonas Holmer.

As of yet five states have been translated into musical notes. It is a very time consuming task and many states remain to be translated.

The Wake & Reek eek mmm rk rotten, 2022

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Reek eek mmm rk rotten, 2022
Vinyl on windows, 18 panels each, 150.5 cm x 85 cm and 3 panels, each 142 cm x 76.5 cm

The Wake, 2022
Hillside Projects & Jonas Holmer. 9-channel sound installation, 35 min loop

Commissioned by Röda Sten Konsthall

Vultures are purifiers. They are disposers of the dead and eat what others cannot. Vultures and humans have a long record of living in symbiosis. Vultures are scavengers, and consume carcasses before they decay, quickly removing bacteria and other poisons from spreading. Vultures are the environment’s unsung heroes.

Reek eek mmm rk rotten and The Wake are two joined installations about the poetics of being eaten. Nine speakers, placed in an organic shape, play the sound of feeding vultures, sounds collected from Youtube and sound banks. Using an equaliser, the sounds have been amplified to create a musical scale based on the harmonic series in Indian raga music. Each speaker plays a different harmony, low or high, and is experienced as a fragment or a whole depending on where the viewer stands. The arrangement of the speakers imitates “a wake of vultures”, referring to a group of vultures feeding, thus its title, The Wake.

Reek eek mmm rk rotten is a text work that onomatopoetically* narrates a feast on the dead. Created specifically for the space referred to as the Cathedral at Röda Sten Konsthall, it references stained glass church windows and aims to enhance the beauty of the space and the narrative being told. Reek eek mmm rk rotten was written through actively listening and transcribing a more than humans’ feast. It is also a consideration of an alternative death care service* and the ecological cycle of being eaten and eating.

* An onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

** Cultures and religions use vultures for their funeral rites, such as the Zoroastrians or Tibetans, laying their dead out to be eaten as a last sacrifice or, more importantly, making the act of dying part of an ecological cycle.

The Wake & Reek eek mmm rk rotten were shown as part of the exhibition dhak dhak ho-hum ah eekff iii ie at Röda Sten Konsthall, 2022, curated by Amila Puzić & Mia Christersdotter Norman.

The Magician and the Cauldron, 2022

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Magician and the Cauldron consist of eight narratives that begin with “Magician” and end with “death”. Each narrative includes the same 19 words, but their compositions differ. The 19 words have been selected from Arundhati Roy’s text, We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity, through an experimental process of reading, distilling, tracing, and repeating Roy’s words.

The eight texts hang on a painted backdrop that hints at a stage drape. Perhaps a stage for a magician, and where each narrative becomes a scene within a larger story.

This work was shown as part of the exhibition dhak dhak ho-hum ah eekff iii ie atRöda Sten Konsthall, 2022, curated by Amila Puzić & Mia Christersdotter Norman.

Again and Again We Ask These Questions, (installation), 2019-2022

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Again and Again We Ask These Questions considers all species, cultures, and lifeways that are no longer in existence or are being driven towards extinction. It commemorates and reaches out to those lost and those threatened.

Emily from Hillside Projects repeatedly reads a collection of questions and short statements. The texts are of existential nature and printed on newsprint. The newsprint will, over time, turn yellow, and the ink will fade. The texts read by the performer are also pasted to the walls and floors in the exhibition space.

The arrangement of the performative reading, together with a synthetic organ soundscape and the paper pasted walls, forms the narrative driver of the work. Again and Again We Ask These Questions speaks of an attempt to figure something out, of dedicatedly trying to make sense of that which is lost.

Direction & script: Hillside Projects
Videographer: Giorgos Chloros
Sound: Jonas Holmer
Music: Jonas Holmer & Hillside Projects
Distributed by: FilmForm – The Art Film & Video Archive and Vidéograph Montréal

A Meadow for Heartache, 2022

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A Meadow for Heartache is a site-specific monochromatic mural painting of a flowering meadow with an accompanying sign and sandbags. The meadow painting is made with egg oil tempera mixed with natural pigments and essential oils extracted from a selection of medicinal plants claimed to be beneficial for heartache. The plants included are valerian root, rosemary, catechu, poppy, rhubarb root, hawthorn, lavender, rose petal, turmeric, and motherwort. The properties of these plants are said to be calming for the nerves and may install a sense of tranquillity. This specific concoction could potentially serve as an aid in living a prosperous life.

Egg oil tempera has been used since ancient times and was very popular in medieval and renaissance painting. The paint is non-toxic and includes egg, linseed oil and pigments. The mixture of pigments determines the colour of the paint and, in this case, the colour of the flowering “meadow”. The sign accompanying the meadow painting is infused with essential oils from the same medicinal plants, and the sandbags holding the sign in place are filled with dried plants. Over time, the painting starts to “cry” with paint and oil slowly dripping from the painting down along the wall.

A Meadow for Heartache is commissioned by Röda Sten Konsthall and was installed in their “lounge” as part of the exhibition dhak dhak ho-hum ah eekff iii ie, 2022 curated by Amila Puzić & Mia Christersdotter Norman.

Reading, to Kins, 2022

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Since the 1980s, India’s vulture population has decreased by approximately 98%, unintentionally poisoned with Diclofenac, a painkiller used by farmers to keep cattle working harder and longer and increase milk production.

With the intention of including the vultures in the conversation about their demise and current ongoings on their land, one member from HP (Hillside Projects) reads the article “We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity” by writer and activist Arundhati Roy to a committee of taxidermied Indian vultures part of the extensive vulture collection at The Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum in Bonn (DE). Roy’s text speaks of the political situation and the Covid pandemic in India during the spring of 2021.

The text was read from beginning to end with no pause.

Commissioned and produced in collaboration with Das Esszimmer - Raum fur Kunst (DE).

Developed with generous support from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Konstakademin, IASPIS (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee) and Clark House Initiative.

Thank you to Sibylle Feucht, Das Esszimmer - Raum fur Kunst (DE), Saviya Lopes & Yogesh Barve, Clark House Initiative (IN), Tushar Parab, Riet van Gerven, SEA Foundation (NL) and Dr. Töpfner, König Zoological Research Museum (DE).

Direction: Hillside Projects (Emily Berry Mennerdahl & Jonas Böttern) Vidéographer: Robin Deutschbein. Edit: Hillside Projects Sound: Jonas Holmer Translation of Roy’s text into Swedish: Anna Tebelius

Walking With Hillside Projects, 2021

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

When you walk with Hillside Projects you walk slowly, fast, in silence, in conversation, as meditation, next to the path, with closed eyes, in action, as exercise, as art, in search, backwards, forwards and with eyes wide open.

This specific walk took place in March 2021 in Kristianstad kommun as part of the project: Skåneleden Konst - In Motion together with Kristianstad Konsthall. The three hour walk was aimed at a group of teenagers and involved re-interpretations of existing land art projects/performances, the making of a cyanotype flag with the aid of the local lake, an open field installation, actions and reactions and walking.

https://regionmuseet.se/projektet-skaneleden-konst-in-motion-konstnarer-klara-for-vandring-langs-skaneleden/

Photo credits: Sara Rossling

Memorial For The Lost, 2021

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Memorial for the Lost is the second part in a video trilogy that attempts to explore the notion of extinction from different angles through i.e. existential politics, humour, grief, performative actions and rituals. Set in a fictional forest landscape, Memorial for the Lost tells the stories of six individual non-humans that were the last before extinction, so called “endlings”. Weaving in and out of a healing process and narratives of lived lives, the video offers an elegy to those lost.

“We live in an age that has come to be known as the “sixth mass extinction” and according to researchers some 17,000 to 100,000 species die out each year. How do we mourn these species and how does it teach us to value better the life that remains? Memorial for the Lost is set in a fictional forest and tells the story of six individual animals, each one the last of their species. We meet Benjamin the Tasmanian tiger, Martha the passenger pigeon, Celia the Pyrenean ibex along with Celia’s cloned offspring, the Moho bird Kauaʻi ʻōʻō and Incas the Carolina parakeet: they all get a new lease of life in the artists’ film. The camera sweeps through the forest and focuses in turn on a female narrator and on poles brandishing fabric with printed archive pictures that embody the extinct animals. Singing bowls are placed on the fabrics and the sound conveys a tender healing process which becomes an appeal to take care of the planet. Hillside Projects places death and loss at the centre of the film, but at the same time wishes to demonstrate humankind’s ability to learn and heal wounds.”

-Caroline Elgh Klingborg, Bonniers Konsthall

Memorial for the Lost, 2021 can currently be viewed online at Bonniers Konsthall:

https://bonnierskonsthall.se/en/utstallning/memorial-for-the-lost/

Script and direction: Hillside Projects (Emily Berry Mennerdahl & Jonas Böttern) Camera: Giorgos Chloros Edit: Jonas Böttern Sound: Jonas Böttern Sound mix: Vilhelm Gustafsson

Sermon (for a bird), 2019

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A lecture performance experimenting with the format of a sermon and set within the walls of a deconsecrated church. The performance addresses the history of a red-listed bird and traces its movement after having abandoned its previous habitat, setting off southwards. It looks at local re-introduction schemes and their desires to return the bird to its former nesting sites in the south of Sweden. The travels of the bird are juxtaposed with the choreography and movement of the performers and their relationship with the audience whilst asking questions such as;

Who belongs where? Do we need you back? Will you be coming back?

Performed as part of Biologiska Museets Vänners event # Fåglar at Eric Ericssonshallen, Stockholm. Eric Ericssonshallen was previously known as Skeppsholmskyrkan and was consecrated in 1842. In 2001 it was deconsecrated.

Sermon (for a bird) is a readaptation of the previous work Searching For The European Roller, 2015-2019. It intends to begin to leave behind the lecture format, moving towards a more performative nature.

Photo credit: Weronika Bela

Searching for the European Roller, 2019-2020

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Searching For The European Roller is a lecture performance that has been manifested in a large number of varying formats in response to the context in which it takes place e.g. arts festivals, research seminars, gallery spaces, universities, and site-specific responses within archives and institutions.

The project was initiated in 2015 and maps the life, movement and disappearance of the blue bird, The European Roller. The lecture continues to evolve and experiments with performative methods and different adaptations of the original narrative. Most recently it includes only one performer rather the original two.

In 2019-2020 Searching For The European Roller has been presented in the Arts Department at Ambedkar University Delhi, in the exhibition The Whole and it’s Parts through an Urbanistic Lens curated by Sibylle Feucht, at Galleri 54 Gothenburg and at Bångska Våningen Stockholm.

Photo credit: Sibylle Feucht

Again and Again We Ask These Questions (video), 2019

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Again and Again We Ask These Questions is a video that takes into consideration all species, cultures and lifeways that are no longer in existence or are being driven towards extinction. It commemorates and reaches out to those already gone and to those threatened. The performer reads, from cover to cover, a collection of repeated questions of an existential nature, printed in black ink on newsprint paper. Each time the book is opened and its pages exposed to air and light, the newsprint paper fades and yellows.

Here, the video is presented as an installation part of the solo-exhibition Why Did You Leave? at Galleri 54, Gothenburg, 2019. Photo credit: Hendrik Zeitler

Direction & script: Emily Berry Mennerdahl & Jonas Böttern Camera: Giorgos Chloros Sound: Jonas Holmer Edit: Jonas Holmer & Jonas Böttern Distributed by: FilmForm. The Art Film & Video Archive

Why Did You Leave?, 2019

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Why Did You Leave? is an installation that includes a publication, a corrugated fibreboard (wellpapp) table and a fabric map with text. The installation builds upon a previous body of work, Searching For The European Roller, 2015-2019, a project that aims to trace the disappearance and whereabouts of a bird. The loose pages of the unbound publication are splayed out on the table, ephemeral in their presentation and creating an overlapping narrative through their many layers. The fabric map is stapled to the wall after having been used in a lecture performance at the beginning of the exhibition. The cardboard table is taken apart and recycled at the end of the exhibition.

Installed as part of the solo-exhibition Why Did You Leave? at Galleri 54, Gothenburg, 2019. Photo credit: Hendrik Zeitler

Why Did You Leave? (artist book), 2018

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This is a publication made within the framework of Searching for the European Roller. Including archival material, photographs (both found and new), notes and thoughts, the publication begins its journey on Fårö in 1968 and continues through time and place toward southern latitudes in a search and understanding of a bird’s disappearance and departure.

Photo credits: Dan Lageryd and Hillside Projects.

Why Did You Leave? is created with generous support from Helge Ax:sson Johnsons Stiftelse.

Again and Again We Ask These Questions (artist book), 2018

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

An artist’s book that proposes a performative encounter with its reader. Printed on newsprint is a collection of existential questions in regards to extinction and loss. Eventually, the ink with text fades and the newsprint paper deteriorates. When the book is opened and read, the pages become yellow, and the text fades due to the exposure of lignin to air and sunlight. The book is intended to be encountered as an evolving object situated within the space of an installation.

Photo credit: Dan Lageryd & Hillside Projects

Searching for the European Roller (video), 2017

Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This video takes place in several public and private institutions and archives across Sweden. It targets to mimic the purpose of educational videos and playfully applies an “academic voice” whilst exploring strategies of storytelling. The video weaves in and out of the history of a disappearing blue bird whilst re-tracing its memories and emotions. The narrative excavates the many layers surrounding the birds’ need for departure and the strong national desire for its return. In doing so, concepts of migration and identity are connected to a larger political understanding of belonging.

Searching for the European Roller, 2017
Length: 16:25 minutes
Directed by: Hillside Projects (Emily Mennerdahl and Jonas Böttern)
Cinematography: Giorgos Chloros
Script: Hillside Projects
Edit and sound: Jonas Böttern and Giorgos Chloros
Music: Dolphins in Heaven
Archival material: Hillside Projects, Nordiska museet, Sean Frew, FoolBoy, Mitch Martinez and Grant Porter

Searching for the European Roller, 2017

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The installation Searching For The European Roller, 2017 includes an installation, a video work and a lecture performance presented in a group exhibition at Dazibao, Montréal, curated by France Choinière. The exhibition includes works by Hillside Projects, Lisl Ponger & Hubert Caron-Guay.

“Searching for the European Roller, a project in evolution since 2011, takes the form here of a performance/reading, a video and an installation made up of various artefacts tracing the history of a specific species of bird. Long ago, the European Roller lived and reproduced freely in northern Europe. Slowly, the species went into steep decline and its last known nesting in Sweden dates from 1967. Recently, however, by breaking up the landscape and designing specific environments to attract the bird, scientists are attempting to reintegrate the species in Sweden. An in-depth study of cartography and of this bird’s migratory models has led Hillside Projects to analyse this desire to reintroduce a species, and to wonder why some species are more desirable than others, or have irrevocable legitimacy in a given territory. The history of the European Roller thus became a metaphorical starting point for a broader investigation into the notions of borders, limits and migration, as well as the notions of belonging, acceptance, and partiality.” - France Choninière

Photo credits: Marilou Crispin for Dazibao and Hillside Projects.

Video credits: Marilou Crispin for Dazibao

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Searching for the European Roller (lecture performance), 2015-2017

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Included in the project Searching for the European Roller^[1] is a number of lecture performances and presentations. The lectures and presentations explore the characteristic of the chosen format (the lecture performance) and are situated in a place between discourse and action, reflection and production, fact and imagination, spectacle and mythmaking. Responding to site and context in which the presentation takes place, the lecture takes on a slightly new format each time presented. It applies and appropriates traditional research methods whilst also slowly unraveling additional layers. In such it hopes to offer an alternative reading on the subject matter.

Images are from presentations at Dazibao, Neu Now Festival Westergasfabriek, Northern Light Conference Sheffield University, E2-E4 Rutiga Golvet and Konstfack, Stockholm.

Photo credits: Marilou Crispin for Dazibao, Amanda Ferrarda, Carl Johan Eriksson and Hillside Projects.

^[1]Searching for the European Roller is an enquiry that weaves in and out of the history of a disappearing blue bird and re-traces its memories and emotions. The project excavates the many layers surrounding the birds’ need for departure and the strong national desire for its return. In doing so, concepts of migration and belonging are connected to a larger political understanding of belonging.

Searching for the European Roller, 2016

Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

You are unmistakable
Your deepest desires remain unknown
Last observed nesting in Sweden in 1967
You were spotted on a barren hilltop
Soon to forsake this land altogether

You fly across economical and country borders
Yet the reason for your disappearance is uncertain
Is it the operation of biocide biotopic changes
Or is cultural boredom the reason you left intolerant Europe?

Searching for the European Roller is a long-term research project that involves lecture performances, video and installation. Central to the project is the bird, The European Roller (in Swedish Blåkråka). A bird that used to live and breed in northern Europe but no longer does. The last time the bird was seen nesting in Sweden was in 1967 on the island of Fårö. Recently there has been several initiatives to get The European Roller back to Sweden. Landscapes have been chopped apart, re-arranged and designed specifically to lure the bird back. Why? Through mapping and exploring the whereabouts, emotions and migratory patterns of the bird the project has sought to understand the desire for the reintroduction of specifies and the construction of nature. Why are certain species more desirable than others? Who or what belongs where and who or what does not belong?

Installation from Neu Now Festival, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. Photo credits: Hillside Projects and Iris Duvekot courtesy of Neu Now.

A selection of drawings, 2015-2017

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Included in several projects are a series of drawings and experiments on white-board. The drawings are presented as part of installations and used in lecture performances. Lines, contours, signs and writing are formed through an act of erasing. Through a slow process of covering parts or entire surfaces of white-board sheets with a marker pen an image then develops in a process where the surface is erased or removed. A process that could be likened or compared to a negative slowly developing or an etching technique.

The images are taken in our studio and from the exhibition Looking for a Bird at ID:I Galleri, Stockholm 2017.

The Dusty Bird Catalogue, 2015

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In 2014-2015, Hillside Projects set out to create a catalogue of all the taxidermic European Rollers found across Sweden. Together with researchers at zoological institutions, the aim was to create an understanding of each bird, both physically and mentally. Dust and feathers were collected from the wings of the birds and presented within glass slides accompanied by text. Each slide becomes an interpretation and representation of the individual birds physical and mental condition.

Thank you to Museum of Evolution of Uppsala University.

A selection of artist books, 2011

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A selection of artist books exploring themes and forms around the artistic process, landscape, silence, time and place. Manifested through text, drawing and photography.

Images are from Printers&Binders Gokarn India, Labyrint 09 Writings&Observations Botkyrka Konsthall, Travelogue as Allegory Konstakademin

Conditions of Sea, 2013

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Conditions of Sea is a public video installation installed temporarily in a 4 × 3 meter window at Domkyrkoforum, a building part of Lunds Cathedral. Shown during the evenings and at night, the video installation juxtaposes a silent view of an ocean within a public environment, thus attempting to create a tension between the conditionings of time, space and architecture. During one month, as viewers moved across the city square, they were met by a moving seascape placed within a city framework.

Presented as part of Lunds kulturnatt 2013 and conceived with the support from Lunds Domkyrka, Lunds Kommun, BA Foto Lund and Filmcentrum Stockholm.