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Visual and Sound Artist located in Stockholm

Anonymous influence (2008-2009)

arrangement with:  left-over material from the Swedish Design Award’s scene decoration at Berns (site specific)

Exhibited at: skeppsholmen  june 2008- winter 2009

curator: Gabriela Lopez, Svensk Form

 


Winter 2009

 

Late Fall 2008

Fall 2008

Visitors as well as locals might be curious about this (cryph-) temporary monument. Could it be made by some American minimalist? or is it some strange remaining from a workshop?

Display started in June 2008.


A popular Skeppsholmen motive, it might be famous, better to have a shot of it. Summer 2008

 

“Architecture of Movement” Festival in Yaroslav Sept 19-21 2008, Presentation of Rearranged Movement

Skype Presentation and Q&A

Skype presentation of some works and their relation to my experimental piece Rearranged Movement (RM) (1999 Malmö, 2006 St. Petersburg)

Rearranged Movement, 2006, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg

The Architecture of Movement Festival (ARMV) in Yaroslav is coordinated by Anastasia Proshutinskaya which also translated live the presentation to the attentive audience.

By means of festival we aim to unite different creative initiatives in the frameworks of interdisciplinary project; research an interaction between city space, architecture, landscape and human body and movements; change the city space and the perception of it through different art movements and actions.

Some crucial implications in the piece (RM) that were of architectural concern was brought up.

For instance the remark of french architectural theory in the 18th century were this new architecture could create new sensation upon it can check/stop bodily movement. And from these new sensations you would end up , logically, to new ideas and reflections upon the world and so on..

Political as well as some issues on consciousness was brought up to the surface.

Questions in the audience were asked i.e. on the role of audience, placement of work etc. they will be answered in detial in this post later.

CD Release – Music Box Music – Recorded at Tekniska Museet 2007

Recordings from some discs connected played on a Polyphon Music Box, (made app. 1850)

Recorded 6th November 2007 at Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

With initiative from Ulrika Casselbrant and Randi Berger

And great thanks all staff at:
http://www.tekniskamuseet.se

see also their page for mobile phone signals made from my recordings!
http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/templates/Page.aspx?id=22091

some releases from the mp3s of these tracks are also available at the open music archive:
http://www.openmusicarchive.org/

a small notice on the mobile phone tracks was shown in the latest  SJ-magazine Kupé (Feb 2008):
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Digital CD release March 30 2008
Release formats: Mp3, Aiff 16 bit, Aiff 24 bit, Wav 16bit, Wav 24bit, FLAC 16 bit, Audio CD Disc Image Bin/Cue

Enjoy!

Full releases at archive.org

Episode #3 of Archived Audio Documents: Studies of a Prepared Piano #2, Salsbro (1995)

In 1995 I was spending a half year lonely on the countryside. A left over house from my grandma with lots of the original 40’s furniture, and a piano out of tune.Heavily inspired by Stockhausen, Zen, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Jazz, I studied the timbre and spatial-ness of the sounds from this old piano. All recorded by improper lo-fi equipment to an old reel Tandberg (with valves) and a dynamic microphone made for signing. Some strings in the piano were also prepared.

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a summer day, Salsbro, 1995. photo: Tomas Nygren

At this house we spent many summer holidays, maybe the best summer experiences in my childhood.

This is the second episode of the total 3 tracks recorded from these sessions.

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my brother Stefan Nygren standing inside one of the closest hay barns (1993)
photo: Tomas Nygren

audio backup at archive.org

Field Studies 2006/2007 – St. Petersburg – Fresh catalog available..

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In 2006/2007 I participated in the program Field Studies – public art in Russian, Scandinavian and Finnish artist in St.Petersburg. It was produced by the National center for contemporary art, St.Petersburg branch and I contributed with my piece Re-arranged Movement (1999).

The performative piece was executed in the passages of the Art Center Pushkinskaya 10 in St. Petersburg.

Paths Rearranged
People are always moving through spaces and levels of consciousness. In the city signs are telling You where to go and how to organize Yourself to others. We are often very well coordinated to meet the demands of the city. Both to make our movements fit economically in this environment and to keep up the feeling that we are free to make individual selections of directions in the city and life.

Movement takes time and effort and, therefore, it’s important to measure the shortest way between two places. That measurement is, however, often deformed by the shifting variables (physical or mental) for city travel.

Showing some slides from the catalog:

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Other participating artists in the NCCA – Field Studies project: Lars Arrenius (SWE), Viktoria Ilyushkina (RUS), Année Olofsson (SWE), Anne-Brit Rage and Gunnhild Bakke (NOR), Victor Remishevsky (RUS), Ann Rosén (SWE), Pavel Shururov and Group 33+1 (RUS) and Video artists from Nordic Countries and Russia.

This project was supported by:

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I only have one catalog left but there still are some 80 catalogs available in St. Petersburg, plz. contact NCCA if you are interested in getting one!