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Installation view, Bachelors’ Show, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2023. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger


Approaching breach / Närmre brottet
8-channel sound installation,12.11 min, 2023: Equipment: speakers, cales, rubber cylinders

Approaching breach was presented in a passage at the Royal Insititute of Art in Stockholm. The material stems from a sound recording of a performance in which a group of participants shaped bricks. During the act, the sounds of hands in wet mud merge with nearby construction work; drilling, the stickiness of mud, and the squeaking shoes coincide in the recordings.

The recordings are cut into fragments, extracted, and formed into rhythmic sequences. Construction work and mud is looped into a wet rumble, through which squeals break. From this point, the composition thins out; from dense masses to dispersed movements and a crackling strand.  

The processed material is distributed through speakers placed at intervals and facing floor and walls. The rumble strikes the walls, while scraping and squeaking move along the floor. The passage is activated as a space for indirect, bodily listening.



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