Konst Kollektivet Kontakt
Konstollketivet Kontakt is a Swedish artistic collective consisting of sound artist Johanna Sandels, historian of
ideas Li Brun, and landscape architect Béatrice Palmquist, who have been working together on creative and
artistic projects since 2021. Our work often revolves around subjects such as space characteristics, materials,
spectators, and movements, including our current project.
Method
Step 1: Initial Site Encounter
Assessing acoustic properties and starting collecting samples of sound. Observing how the spatial qualities
affect the movement and activities of the space. Utilize a combination of analysis methods borrowed from
landscape architecture and art, such as the traveling transect method (developed by Lisa Diedrich and Gina
Lee) and Deep Listening/Sonic Meditations (developed by Pauline Oliveros), which emphasize attentive liste-
ning and the relationship between body movement and environmental guidance.
Step 2: Processing Site Impressions
Process the impressions gathered during the initial site encounter.
Step 3: Return to the Site
Return to the site to unfold and integrate the sampled and processed material into the space.
Explore the potential of the material to serve as vessels for further investigation and scale up as needed to enhance its impact within the space.
Step 4: Re-processing and Re-assessing
Re-process and re-assess the collected material, taking into account any changes or insights gained during
the scaling-up process. Resample sounds from the upscaling of the vessel and interweave them with material
from the site.
Step 5: Invite Spectators
Ström
Group show Parcours de l'art, Cloitre St Louis, Avignon, France
Artistic investigation of space and place, October 2021
Made as artist collective Konstkollektivet Kontakt and with students at Ecole de Mont Cotton. Ström/Fluxus is a material, analog link between two cities and sites within them, Campusbron in Norrköping, Sweden, and Cloitre St Louis in Avignon, France.
It's a piece split in two where the spectator of one can experience a link with its counterpart, hundreds of miles away. The pieces are in dialogue between themselves, but they tell the story of the architecture within the other.
Consisting of pieces of tissue and sound representing the physical conditions of the sister site the goal was to bring attention to the simultaneous conditions and existence of an parallel site.
The ice melts from the heat of the sun and makes imprints on the tissue. The dripping sound were recorded and weaved together with sounds from the site to a whole, representing the soundscape of the moment of creation. Later, the sound is played with the exhibition in Cloître St Louis.
Photos: Li Brun
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Conditions of a Floating Unit, 2021
Sound and sculpture installation in ancient well from the 18th century. Sculpture made from recycled glass objects and light.
Sound installation stems from the same objects meeting water in different states of aggregation. The sound and light installation
bounce from - and are enhanced by the spatial qualities of the stone walls
Performance made for the opening of La paserelle de Avignon