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Discipline 17.4 sound piece, 12:22 min, 2025
Discipline combines processed field recordings from areas affected by land and mudslides with electroacoustic elements—exploring landscape transformation through sound. The piece moves through sine tones, machine noise, and scraping textures, gradually dissolving into a weave of water, hums, and resonant tones.
The piece was created for Traversées Sonores—a surround sound concert that I co-organized in Lyssningsrummet, Stockholm. The project translates to ‘Sonic Crossings’, and is an ongoing initiative to provide a platform for emerging artists working with sound. The concert was realized with the generous support of Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and Institut Français de Suède. Other participating artists were Ash, Mari Mattsson and tm.
flute but not the master stereo channel sound installation, 02:53 min, 2024
This sound piece is based on recordings where I blew through discarded metal tubes with my mouth. With the tubes’ varying tones, I create a composition that shifts between attack and release. In the exhibition, the piece was activated every ten minutes, with the speakers placed directly on the pipes to create a physical connection between the sound and its origin. Created for the exhibition Buss 501, a project by Nisse Bergman with Konstfrämjandet Västmanland.
Närmre brottet /Approaching breach 4-channel sound installation,12.11 min, 2023
Närmre brottet is an installation featuring reworked sounds, eight speakers, and a room. The sound is originally recorded during a performance with my classmates involving wet mud. With the excerpts, I create rhythmic fragments that alternate between intimate and distant tones, in the search of something that yields, near and far. The speakers are positioned far apart, angled toward the floor and walls, allowing the sound to interact with surfaces and transform the room into an instrument for bodily listening.
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ASICS - trickler performance, 30 min, 2023
A performance for Kunst på Ruinen; a one-day event taking place in the surroundings of a drained lake, before the pumps were turned on to restore the lake and water would seep back. I place myself on a ruin wall beside the lake and slowly pull my body forward. The wall shifts in levels, and with each rise, I bend to lick myself ahead. The slow movement holds the body in exertion, mirroring the ground’s gradual change and dissolution.
ASICS performance, 10 min, 2022
Running shoes make the body light and bouncy against hard surfaces. Here, the dynamic is reversed —the shoes take control, dictating the body’s movements as they wrestle and caress each other. A rubber sole drags against another, generating sluggish friction that builds tension throughout the body. The sneakers give vent to a relationship, while the body navigates a choreography balancing resistance and fluidity.
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En ansträngning, flera suckar / One effort, many sighs video, 21 min, 2022
This project is inspired by human effort when building on unstable ground. Excavating mud creates movement, while attempts to stabilize and prevent mudslides often worsen the problems we aim to solve. The video shows a group shaping bricks using a segmented wooden frame. As the group forces mud into uniform shapes, the rigid dynamics of production emerge, revealing tensions between labor, constraints, and mud’s unpredictability. The act is repeated until all the mud is shaped.
photo: Niels Engström, Caio Marques de Oliveira
edit: Stella Dieden Richter
participants: Johanna Bjurström, Elmer Blåvarg, Sofia Romberg, Andreas Widoff, Andrea Larsson, Stella Dieden Richter
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När rutin blir ritual /When routine becomes ritual performance, 45 min, 2021
This is a performance in three acts where I portray myself and a door as object and subject respectively. In the first act I lie down next to the door to perform a back somersault. Faceing down, I do a slow rise for 20 minutes; I push my body up from the floor to standing position, after which the clothes expose parts of my body. By slowing down my normal speed, hiding my face and letting my clothes expose my body, I try to steer away from the reading of me as a subject. In the second act, I smear the door surfaces and parts with Vaseline, and the third act is the smeared door lying on the floor.
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text, 2021
A poem about caressing the floor, drinking an old glass of water, skin absorbing lotion and a question whether we were first clean and then nasty or the other way around. As a contribution to the livestream Beuys, beuys, beuys, the poem was read aloud three times via phone call; from inside a taxi, a wardrobe, and a taxi again. The voice went straight into the live stream, and with a delay of a few seconds through speakers out into the recording room.
Kulturprofilerna performance, 30 min, 2021-22
Kulturprofilerna is a queer punk band named after Jean-Claude Arnault—a central figure in Sweden’s #MeToo scandal, known in the tabloids as the ‘Culture Profile’.
The band brought together ten artists, curators, and thinkers, playing on found instruments with raw energy and no filters. As a songwriter and front performer, I helped lead our chaotic shows—using humor and vulnerability to challenge oppressive structures. Our songs tackled themes like lesbian love, annoying pets, and mommy issues—channeling resistance through unfiltered emotion and collective catharsis. We performed at release parties, public institutions and art venues.
Band members: Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson, Sarali Borg, Moa Cedercrona, Stella Dieden Richter, Heidi Edström, Beata Sjöstedt, Laus Østergaard, Lovisa Fahlgren, Lior Nønne Malue Hansen, Lovisa Gauffin Wohlfarth
Credits: Martin Ålund - initiator and sound technician
Setlist
Vilda Vulvan
Port Salut
Alkoholtårta
Boy
Lorte kat
Kulturmannen
Kokosmjölk
Supermakter
Yoga
Franska låten (cover of Poupée de cire, poupée de son)
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Photo 1: Supermarket, José Figueroa. Photo 2: Musikaliska, Niels Engström. Photo 3: Snotty Seaside, Sanna Albenius. Photo 4: Moderna Museet Stockholm, Albin Håkansson. Trailer: Snotty Seaside, Sanna Albenius
Håll mig våt: delad /Keep me wet: parted performance, 30 min, 2020
In this project, I explore the encounter between the car and the mud. The process begins with me gathering a pile of wet mud and driving over it, capturing the moment when the mud gives way and the pile splits apart. The performance acts as a starting point for a further process where I perpetuate the remaining track. Performed during group exhibition Sex Cave at Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg.