Författararkiv: N Sverdrup

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OUROBOROS (2012)

Co-operation with Daniel Segerberg

Material: used fireworks

Video loop 30 min
picture format 16:9
audio: stereo

 

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Ouroboros was an installation in two parts made for the space at Krognoshuset in Lund, Sweden, January 2012. We recycled used fireworks from the New Years´ celebration just weeks before the opening of the exhibition. The material went through the videoimage in the basement in the exhibition space. The ”processed” fireworks were then installed on the top floor in the exhibition space.

Ouroboros is an ancient symbol, a snake biting its own tale; where each ends is the beginning of something new.

 

 

image/text production of dreams

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THE PRODUCTION OF DREAMS OF THE INDIFFERENT GENERATION (2002)

 

DVD video loop 15 min
picture format: PAL 4:3
sound:stereo

(Dreams is also the name of the most popular Swedish cookie)

An installation where the activity, which is a mixture of a scientific experiment and a process of
baking, is video taped with a camera that moves around the table, one circle per minute. The
experiment/baking is directed by a timeline with noted years of “important” Swedish historical
events. In the baking process each year corresponds to the minutes of the clock. Each minute a
reading of the experiment is done, for example: at “16:03” a 28 cm long spoon is 12 cm down in
a bag with flour”. The “result” is noted on the timeline next to the year 1603 with the
information that Maria Stuart’s son Jacob the First succeeded the throne. The video (15 min loop)
was shown at the table with the remains from the experiment /baking.

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to do list text

My To Do-List was made for the exhibition Environmentality (initiated by Cecilia Parsberg).
On exhibit was the poster where I noted down four errands as well as the day and location of
the completion. I intended to complete all of them within the period of exhibition. Instead of a
rational amount of time for each of my “to-dos” I spent a whole working day for each errand.

I documented my experiences in writing, like entries in my diary. The last day of the exhibit I
read aloud my notes from the day at the post office.

the notes>>

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TIME IN NEW YORK (2003)

DVD 11 min
picture format: PAL 4:3
audio: stereo

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Fragmentedly, one follows a woman and her everyday occupations during a stay in New York City.
Through different strategies, she tries to anchor herself to the city, and tries to establish
memories of the episodes she experiences. She counts in her own time, but become
bewildered because of the images from the place which she, through media, already knows
from before. The images change between memories and present time. The images are
accompanied with a voice over. The voice changes between a voice of a woman and of a man,
sometimes in Swedish, sometimes in English, both address I. The voice talks about memories,
conceptions, routines, expectations and strategies.