Category Archives: Experimental

Det är där vi kan finna ett hem (2023)

Installation with film, scenery, painting, photography, graphic design and interactive display

Everything was made in the period of 10 july – 23 August:

construction of studio in the residence area
wrilten script
pre production
directing
post production
music
etc

Film was produced with written script and professional actors

Film length: 17’21”

Actors: Amanda Lund, Henrik Norman, Niklas Molander

Realised at ARTWRK factory in Västerås.

Projected Presence (2022)

Permanent installation at Burträsk hembygdsförening

Site specific installation

Found objects on site:
Episcope projector lens
Dusty window
Metal thread
Old posters

My thoughts on this work circles around the necessity of past time for the understanding of the present and our presence in it.

Workings:
The lens mounted on the wall projects a camera obscura image onto the dusty window inside. Thanks to its historical dust on the window the image from the outside is realised when the lights is scattered on the dust of the surface. If the window had been new and clean no image would have been realised.

The projection works continuously without any other sources than the sunlight.

the episcope lens is mounted on the wall close to the roof
on the upper floor the room is dark but lighted up from the projection
Projected Presence (2022) visitors interact with the projection

realised at Tomma Rum Residence July-Aug 2022

opened at 30/7 2022 http://tommarum.se/

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

 

Variations for 736 Red, Green and Yellow (2001) Chicago

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Arrangement with: Modified sound recording; two glossy large photography photographs from a thrift store; two cut pieces of wood; plastic flowers in a bag; green decorative tape; red, green, and yellow paper clips; backsides of three books about american birds for children in red, green, and yellow (called the green book of American birds and so on).

Forced abstraction in the mystical realm of order
What was it that became easier? All information is highly in detail presented, but the key to reading it has been lost, maybe even not existed. The observer is continuously bounded to see the things as themselves, to come back to the piece as a turn, back to ’materia prima’:

”First we bring together then we putrefy, we break down what has been putrifi ed, we purify the divided, we unite the purified and harden it. In this way is One made from man and woman.”
(Büchlein vom Stein der Weisen, 1778)

Sound played:
“Where do you come from?”
The sound source was taken from a recording about how to educate your children in the topic sex from the 40-50’s USA. The sound is heavily edited.

mp3 (7.2 MB)

Dedication:
This piece is dedicated to the Italian composer and poet (messenger to use his own terms) Giacinto Scelsi.

Personal reflections about the piece:
English version pdf >>>>>>
Swedish version pdf >>>>>>

All the times + grejs (2001)

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mixed medias: photography, slideshow, papers, smell, explanatory text etc.

Exhibited at: Gallery Båstadsgatan fyra, Malmö (2001)


Part H3: Actual persons missing at the WTC disaster (http://missing.cdxc.com/, now offline)
There was 117 portraits in the slideshow combined with words (pain, winner, planetary, double standard, manipulate etc.) translated into Farsi (http://www.farsidic.com) 25 different words in Farsi appeared in the slideshow.

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Parts and wholes in the history of now
This work was a result of my process with my conceptual piece: Registered times on all digital watches and clocks with numbers I looked at between 11.44.22 AM (07/31 1999) and 1.44 AM (10/05 2000) and the enforcement of power in the WTC catastrophe and the predictable results from it.

The more or less confusing setup was made in three large elements and ten connecting parts. Episodes was interlinked with formal aspects and descriptions in the manual. The attitude was playful and provocating in how the relation between the parts was oriented in the manual. It was using a descriptive language, but ends up in the visitor’s choice of relevance.

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The manual of an explanation
This text was written in about the same manner as in my piece “Party for the rabbit”. Describing carefully every item in the setup and making conncetions. The motivation is to try for the visitor to come closer to the pretty abstract topics that one usually tries to glance through since they are of a quite non-physical character.

“Manual” English pdf >>>>>>>
“Manual” Swedish pdf >>>>>>

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outside view, Gallery Båstadsgatan

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Part H1: Large sheets of times wiht paper notes

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Part H2: photographs with damages from flight

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Part H3: slideshow with symbolic arrangement

Some related works:
Registered times on all digital watches and clocks with numbers I looked at between 11.44.22 AM (07/31 1999) and 1.44 AM (10/05 2000) Chronological and sorted  (2000)

Variations for 736, Red Green and Yellow (2001)

Studies for Wm. Caxton’s fest 1484 (2001)

Party for the Rabbit (2000)