A sensory installation that explores sensuality in terms of behaviors, phenomena and possible qualities without their relying on cultural codes. →

Glinting honey in the dark, a feather tickling on my back

creates a swarm of light and sound; a combination of chaos and precision, appearance and intention. →

Red Horizon

Derives from the ideas of the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) who assumed that the universe consists of “monads”, invisible elementary particles equipped with a certain degree of consciousness. →

The Monads

is a generative virtual environment based on the urban space around Paradiso in Amsterdam that is influenced in real time by weather conditions and the day and night rhythms of physical reality. →

Vec4(red,green,blue,alpha)

reflects on Stockholm’s ever changing urban landscapes and on the complex relationships between man-made, technology and nature. →

Flowing Grounds

A kinetic/light/sound installation based on a subjective interpretation of sound traveling through space. →

))))) repetition at my distance

Every day we are surrounded by machines and technological systems that have their own internal clocks. →

If/Then

investigates the dynamics between air particles as a dynamic ecosystem where the visitor travels through different altitudes of an artificial atmosphere above the Goffertpark in Nijmegen. →

Airborne Landscapes

The neighborhood is alive, it is a collection of various conscious and unconscious stimuli and reactions to them. →

Symbiotic Spaces

Flowing Grounds | Stockholm

2021 - 2022

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Summary

This journal outlines the research process behind the project Flowing Grounds | Stockholm (2022).

A site specific installation that reflects on Stockholm’s ever changing urban landscapes and on the complex relationships between man-made, technology and nature. Flowing Grounds focuses on the harbor and the water as a vibrant system with its own temporality where all agents have to adapt to different laws and habitats.

At Galleri Frihamnstorget the installation was presented in a sea container that has seen 7 seas for 40 years. The container is transformed into a migration vessel where the audience experiences the journey of Stockholm’s main water way from the lake Mälaren to the Baltic Sea in a day/night cycle.

The installation consists of a 2-channel video, stereo audio with speakers, tactile transducers and controlled signal lights. A symbolic water lock that plays with the dichotomy between analog and virtual realities, fresh and salt water, northern and southern river flows, low and high water levels that refer to the Slussen water lock, currently Stockholm’s largest urban development project under construction.

The work has been developed in 2021-2022 where the artist started the project with a month long residency at Bibliotek-a in Stockholm in November 2021, followed by a field research trip that followed Stockholm’s main water route from the Lake Malaren side to the Baltic Sea side of the city in May 2022, and finally the exhibition at Galleri Frihamnstorget in June 2022.

During these two residencies the artist’s reflections were collected in a notebook that are documented as well in this journal. It contains photographs, references, texts and audio excerpts related to the urban development areas of Stockholm. Distilled fragments of these can be traced back in the final project.

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Olaf Wempe