Don’t Bring An Instrument
2023-ongoing
A platform and series of courses co-developed with Aron Fogelström. The project was initiated with a desire to approach sound beyond established tools, exploring what emerges when the body, listening, and material itself become the instrument.
Off Site (Royal Institute of Art, 2024) took Stockholm’s sonic landscape and the city’s relationship to noise as its point of departure, focusing on sounding techniques, decentralization, and socio- political conditions. In 2025, this was followed by Leakage As Resistance, where we examined sound within exhibition contexts and its capacity to renegotiate spatial and social structures. The course concluded with a public sound experiment at R1 Reactor Hall, Stockholm.
Sonic Commons was held at Index in dialogue with the exhibition Liberation Radio. Together, we explored how the city’s soundscape might be translated into a speculative collective body. Through sound’s capacity to leak across boundaries, we investigated ways of dissolving individual ownership and opening new modes of relating to the urban environment collectively. A temporary sound installation extended across three rooms, where microphones and speakers were arranged so that sounds captured in one space were transmitted into another. Functioning as an open communication system, the installation allowed voices, movements, and ambient noise to be continuously displaced and renegotiated between spaces.