HOME solo exhibition at Möbeln, Tierp Culture Center, 2020.
The soundscape of "Study of a failed parachute" comes from the "sonic remains" of old junk, such as buckets, bikes and cars, found in in the garden. Built into an un-orthodox instrument, their forgotten sonic heritage, memories and stories were explored.
Study of a failed parachute, performed live at Swedish Energies, ISSUE Project Room, New York, 2014.
(Photo: Peter Gannushkin)
"In 2012 I left the UK and moved into an old house in Örbyhus in Norra Uppland, Sweden. The rumour of a tragic parachute accident that befell the family who lived in the house in the 70:s led me to build an instrument from forgotten objects and scraps from different eras that appeared gradually appeared around the house and garden."
THE HOME SERIES (2014–2019)is an autoethnographic and site-specific investigation of “home” and its deep-rooted significance to all beings, examining the notion of having and being without.
The series is based on personal research and experiences related to moving to and existing in a village in northern Uppland.
The series explores how listening and field recording may be explored to experience our familiar home environment through a different "mode" and as ways to re-think and even re-contruct stagnent structures and norms. The project also investigates how recorded, private sound fragments can be joined with others' and how these layers upon layers of digital fragments from different eras and histories can make visible alternative realities and speculate about the place's possible future scenarios and narratives.
The series consists of the three works; Study of a failed parachute (2014) HOME (2016, Sonic remains (2020) and the participatory art project Mitt Örbyhus which took place November 2018 – January 2019 in collaboration with class 6B and their teacher Lena Öman at Örbyhus school in Uppland. The project consisted of practical listening and recording exercises in the field, in the classroom and in the forest.
The work concluded six different alternative sounding interpretations of Örbyhus presented at an open show.
