Våg Brus [Wave Noise]: A series of radio exhibitions broadcast on 88.9 FM
Event
Start date: Thursday 25 April 2024
Time: 17.30
End date: Sunday 5 May 2024
Time: 15.30
Location: 88.9 FM with a joint listening session at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. Also available online
Curated by Linnea Wästfelt as part of a degree project within Curating Art, International Master’s Programme at Stockholm University.
The radio wave moves through time and space without human recognition. The invisible waves exist everywhere, and we move through and with them all the time. Some suggest that soundwaves are constant and never stop existing once created. The radio wave is able to carry soundwaves from transmitter to receiver. In these exhibitions on frequency 88.9 FM, the radio wave creates our exhibition space.
Våg Brus presents an exhibition series broadcast from the local radio station transmitting from Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus. The broadcast houses the artworks, allowing the audience to explore them throughout the duration, when the transmission stops the exhibition closes. Thereafter, the artworks become a memory – never to be revisited in full again.
Våg Brus welcomes everyone, and the exhibition stretches all over Stockholm. Tune in from home, your car, the office, the kiosk, or join us for collective listening sessions at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus this spring.
25 April 17.30-18 Jesper Vesterlund presents the work Of ghosts and memories
28 April 15-15.30 Rebecca Larsson presents the work SYRINX
3 May 17.30-18 Theodore Trottner presents the work Våta Slingor
5 May 15.00-15.30 Mari Mattsson presents the work Tre hörn av minnet
We welcome you to listen, reflect, and enjoy the exhibitions on 88.9 FM, or through the webradio:
https://www.radiosydvast.se/lyssna-pa-webbradio/
About the artists
Mari Mattsson holds an MA in fine arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. She often creates site-specific installations that emphasize the visitors movement. Recurring themes explored in her practice are perception, imagination and the concept of time through sound, text and scores.
Rebecca Larsson holds an MA in fine arts from Malmö Art Academy and explores in her practice different techniques and materials, often with language as a starting point. Finding subject matters in literature and often inspired by myths and metaphysics she brings these stories to life.
Jesper Vesterlund holds an MA in fine art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and works mainly with unheard sounds. Exploring tales and myths of modern times through sounds, he presents histories of the unknown.
Theodore Trottner holds an MA in fine arts from the Royal Institute of Art and an MA in sound art from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. His practice evolves around exploring sounds as ephemeral works of art. Working with site-specific installations and new methods of presentation he provides the visitor an immersive experience, exploring sound as a unique practice of attentive listening.
About the project
Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus is a people’s house located in the south of Stockholm. The house hosts a local radio station, a cinema, exhibition spaces and a library. Medborgarhuset is daily used by hundreds of people from different communities. Their ambition is to create an ecosystem of social, artistic and pedagogical practice that enable conversations, reflection and a democratization of the local area and the city at large. The radio operated within the house usually broadcast local radio focusing on communities active in the nearby area. More information about the house can be found on their website:
Wave Noise is a degree project for the MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University. It is curated by Linnea Wästfelt who, in her curatorial practice, works research-based, often with interventions in the public space and alternative methods of presentation. She holds a BA in fine art photography from Glasgow School of Art and is co-founder of Vava Art Collective. She is currently based in Stockholm
The international Master's programme Curating Art is a two-year curatorial education. It is a collaboration between Art History (together with the schools of Business and Law) at the university together with prominent art institutions in Stockholm. Curating Art is in equal shares an academic and practice based education.
Last updated: April 11, 2024
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics