Installment with: Shortwave Radio, FM radio transmission, audio, textile, C-Print
transmitted audio to the radio
Exhibited at ArtMobile OpenArt Party event fall, Västerås, 2015
Category Archives: Audio
Message to 759 – the aesthetics of secrecy (2013)
installation with: video projection, radio transmission with recorded audio, shortwave radio, loudspeaker, various objects, photography
exhibited at: Galleri K, Västerås
Concrete privacy in the public space
The work Legoland uses radio as its medium, also the work focuses on various aspects of numbers and communication methods within clandestine operations such as number stations or secret intelligence services the name is taken from the nickname of MI6 building in London. The audio material for the performance has been collected from various radio receivers around Europe, North America, and Asia.
Broadcasting secret messages into air is a peculiar activity, since it’s indeed shared in a public space. Hence everyone could in practice tune in the actual frequency and listen to it. However, there is only one kind of listener that could decrypt the message (for i.e. special number stations) due to a simple but efficient and unbreakable method using only a paper and a pen.
video still, footage from short-wave radio spectrum analysis. Actual broadcasting spy station is in the middle position and beginning of its broadcast.
photograph
The benefits of still using radio today has the advantage of the impossibility to trace the listener in contrast to the use of computers where everything has traces of IP numbers, logs and hard-drives. Radio waves are difficult to stop and in every moment of time waves are passing borders and through people. The history of these broadcasts are to be traced back to the beginning of the radio medium itself making them the first public broadcast ever transmitted. The transmissions are unregistered and hence illegal to the FCC. Even though these type of transmissions had its peak in the cold war, they can still be heard. Some has changed its behavior to digital mode (which still is made up of numbers).
video still, a typical vintage spy recording device, Nagra SN
Power and secrecy
For the work Legoland there are aesthetic issues in the documentary material, an utterly concrete world of privacy. High strangeness and very few answers, though the material has a powerful character. Questions unfold. Power and secrecy. Why do power need secrets? The work
installation detail with shortwave radio on right
Gallery info sheet during exhibit (pdf, Swedish) >>>>>>>>>>>>
Video excerpt #1
notice that audio has two divided audio channels (mono left/right) this was used in the installation sending one mono channel to the small short-wave radio at the table and the other mono channel was sent to a loudspeaker on the wall
Click here to download Video excerpt #1
Video excerpt #2
notice that audio has two divided audio channels (mono left/right) this was used in the installation sending one mono channel to the small short-wave radio at the table and the other mono channel was sent to a loudspeaker on the wall
MESSAGE TO 759 – the aesthetics of secrecy 16 Feb – 3 mars 2013
Konstnärsföreningen Galleri K, Västerås
http://www.konstnarsforeningen.com/
Vernissage 16/2 12-16 Konstnärsföreningen Galleri K, Slottsgatan 17, Västerås
Öppettider: Vardagar (utom måndagar): 12 – 17, Lördag/Söndag: 12 – 16
ladda ner flyer/vernissagekort(pdf)
mer läsning: ladda ner gallerilapp Message for 759 (pdf)
LEGOLAND (2012) Documenta 13, Kassel
performance with various old portable spy gear, battery powered radio transmission, radio scanning and writing
Other minds pavilion – dokumenta 13, Kassel, Germany
Performance date 26 July 2012
a Nagra SN was used in the performance playing the artists own recordings from contemporary spy stations on the shortwave band from various activities from the recent years. Some spy station recordings were only 2 weeks old.
Sound collage with own recordings of various number and clandestine radio transmissions plays at radio transmission through common portable radios during performance:
Concrete privacy in the public space
The work Legoland uses radio as its medium, also the work focuses on various aspects of numbers and communication methods within clandestine operations such as number stations or secret intelligence services the name is taken from the nickname of MI6 building in London. The audio material for the performance has been collected from various radio receivers around Europe, North America, and Asia.
Broadcasting secret messages into air is a peculiar activity, since it’s indeed shared in a public space. Hence everyone could in practice tune in the actual frequency and listen to it. However, there is only one kind of listener that could decrypt the message (for i.e. special number stations) due to a simple but efficient and unbreakable method using only a paper and a pen.
The benefits of still using radio today has the advantage of the impossibility to trace the listener in contrast to the use of computers where everything has traces of IP numbers, logs and hard-drives. Radio waves are difficult to stop and in every moment of time waves are passing borders and through people. The history of these broadcasts are to be traced back to the beginning of the radio medium itself making them the first public broadcast ever transmitted. The transmissions are unregistered and hence illegal to the FCC. Even though these type of transmissions had its peak in the cold war, they can still be heard. Some has changed its behavior to digital mode (which still is made up of numbers).
Best in Show (2007) Norrby, Sala
four channel sound installation, photography and video + event
Norrby church (Sala)
exhibition project “Sjätte Sinnet” (Sixth Sense), Swedish Church
Untitled, photograph Digital I-Print placed in the organ
a Hidden Third Person
For this project I was interested to investigate the symbolism of the dove/pigeon used in the jewish/christian tradition. In many ways the dove can represent the silence and femine aspects of the Holy Spirit. The mother or something that balances the male/female duality. Its not hard to link the symbol to similar gods as the holy Maria and i.e. Isis
The dove as peaceful holy, fluffy inter- or hyper existence comes almost to its ubiquitous hiddenness.
Stereo mix down version (from 4 channels) of installation audio:
Pigeons released at the opening
If you breed a dove and it borns at one location it will always go back to this location. Is this the same with religion? If you are born into one religio cultural situation how easy is it to not return to its ethics and thinking?
Still frame from Video, Tibor Barcza and some of his awards.
In searching for breeders I found Tibor Barcza, living in Elsöv (Skåne). He breeds a special dove called Jacobin Pigeons and he has continued with this hobby for over 30 years. Tibor is a serious breeder and the difference between his hobby or as a profession is somewhat hard to distinguish.
Installation detail, inside the organ
Installation detail, inside the organ
text available at the location, pdf >>>>>>>>
Project overall overview and setup of parameters scanned first 3 pages from the catalog >>>>>>>>>