Crossroadsproject - Bleke Arkiv
Crossroads project is a series of workshops made in dialogue with newcomers, artistis, students at Blekinge Institute of Technology and residents of Ronneby, led by architect Sepa Sama. We meet in Ronneby and Karlshamn to talk and listen to the stories of each other - and to create an exhibition of the stories of the world.
Me and Daniel Petersson was in charge of one part of the Crossroads installation, called Bleke Arkiv. The aim of Bleke Arkiv is to gather stories and objects from people living in Ronneby. Bleke Arkiv is an archive, but it is not only an archive of memories and the past, but the contemporary, the now. It is shaped like a wave, symbolizing that Ronneby is in constant change with every human, every object and story flowing through the city.
As a visitor you can sift through stories of past loved ones, every day events, tragedies and lucky days. You can look and touch objects loaded with loss, love, affection and hope.
Bleke Arkiv is currently exhibited as a part of the exhibition Make A Change, during the two months we continue to gather stories and objects by engaging locals and newcomers.
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Temporary Islands was invited to participate in the Baltic House Lab in Gdansk 2015. Curious about the artefacts in the picture?
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A photographic experiment, a film soaked in coffee. Inspired by others who have made the same kind of experiment with either coffee, citric acid etcetera. My interest was to find a way of working with accidents or the uncontrollable. For me, the process is very satisfying as you always get surprised by the result and for the most part its an fortunate surprise. I could make a long argument or essay about the process, how this is a way of letting go of total control and the layers it creates, but I feel that the pictures should have the main part in this post. I hope you enjoy!
Pictures taken Spring 2015 in Nexø (DK) and Malmö (SE).
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gravicells
Interactive tech artwork from 2004 by Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa presents data of participants effect on the piece (and still appears contemporary today):
Artist Seiko Mikami, who has been showing numerous interactive installations re-examining human body sensation, and Sota Ichikawa, head of the architectural group “doubleNegatives Architecture (dNA)”, collaborated on an installation project with a focus on the “sense of gravity” as an addition to the five senses, the results of which were introduced in this exhibition.
The force of gravity works between all kinds of substances in the universe. Through their dynamic work expressing this correlativity by means of video, light and sound, the artists reminded the audience of the presence of gravity that we normally aren’t aware of in daily life, and highlighted at once the basic function of the sense of gravity as an interface through which the human body defines its subjective perception of space. -
Nexö soaked in coffee #analogphotography #analoguephotography #filmphotography #vscocam
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longed for at Triangeln station, soaked in coffee. #filmphotography #analoguephotography #analogphotography #vscocam
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Lyckeby stärkelse soaked in coffee #analogphotography #analoguephotography #filmphotography
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Triangeln station soaked in coffee #filmphotography #analogphotography #analoguephotography #vscocam
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Svaneke soaked in coffee #analoguephotography #analogphotography #vscocam #cherryblossom #filmphotography
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Social Stratum
Social Stratum is part of a series of playful experiments performed in my Bachelor Thesis Temporary Islands (together with Daniel Petersson). The project seeks a posthumanist performative understanding of the creative process where materiality is not seen as passive, rather as an active participant in the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.This is an experiment where I seek a different way of living with water. What happens when the materiality of water changes? What stories of the world arise when flowing sea water stabilizes as jelly? What happens in this material-discursive phenomena of water, jelly and me?
Sea jelly is a temporary material. It is in constant and visually visible becomig. It vaporizes, and after a couple of days only a thin layer of jelly is left.
Social Stratum is a result of failure, irritation and cutting. When trying to make a solid piece of jelly, from the bottom of the sea to the surface, the piece got stuck in the mold. This resulted in irritation and I started to cut out the piece from the mold in order to discard it. In this cutting i also cut the piece in layers, cutting out small cubes of jelly with different amounts of sea bottom particles in it. The irritation was replaced with joy and excitement. Social Stratum is an experiment with the notion of layers, stratum. The sea divides itself in different layers just as we divide our society in different layers, based on gender, class, ethnicity etcetera. But the piece does not intend to legitimize these layers, on the contrary it contest the notion of fixed layers. Although the little pieces of layers is seen as different layers, every layer is entangled. The particles of the sea bottom is a part of the surface and the water of the surface is a part of the sea bottom. This story of layers, stratum arose in the material-discursiva practice of making jelly and of cutting.
New material from my portfolio!