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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.
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.


