PUBLIC RETREAT at Platform Deep Dive
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Aug - Dec 2024 / Practice-based Research / Sound art / Text / Collective listening sessions / Memory / Archive
Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager
Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager
You hear the cars, the honking of their horns. You hear the loud bangs and the persisting sound from a pneumatic drill. The presence of your immediate surroundings.
How are we, humans and more-than-humans, doing in our cities, really? Who decides how the urban fabric develops and what it will sound - look - smell - feel like?
And whose interests do they have in mind?
Building upon NYA LÖVHOLMEN - an artistic study on the redevelopment of the former industrial area in Stockholm, PUBLIC RETREAT has been invited to Platform Deep Dive. Through artistic research, sound works, radio broadcasts, workshops and exhibitions, our aim is to engage fellow citizens to contemplate on the role of sounds in our lives, from their purely physical properties to their emotional, psychological and physiological impact.
During our time at Platform Stockholm we deepen our research and explore the auditory experiences, parameters and discourses of Lövholmen. A public workshop, listening sessions and broadcasts are planned for August, October and December 2024.
How are we, humans and more-than-humans, doing in our cities, really? Who decides how the urban fabric develops and what it will sound - look - smell - feel like?
And whose interests do they have in mind?
Building upon NYA LÖVHOLMEN - an artistic study on the redevelopment of the former industrial area in Stockholm, PUBLIC RETREAT has been invited to Platform Deep Dive. Through artistic research, sound works, radio broadcasts, workshops and exhibitions, our aim is to engage fellow citizens to contemplate on the role of sounds in our lives, from their purely physical properties to their emotional, psychological and physiological impact.
During our time at Platform Stockholm we deepen our research and explore the auditory experiences, parameters and discourses of Lövholmen. A public workshop, listening sessions and broadcasts are planned for August, October and December 2024.
“Will you remember Lövholmen?”
What sounds do you remember?
Can you play them back in your mind’s ear?
We hear sounds, but we also feel them in our bodies.
The warmth of a lullaby sung by your grandmother, ice cream and garbage trucks, the ocean breeze in the palm trees that summer you got really sick. A leaf blower in your local park, the t hundering backdrop of motorized traffic that sounds just like the city you grew up.
A workshop and a collective act of listening, remembering, archiving and speculating about Lövholmen’s past, present, future and future past. Together we will explore how sounds from our past can be vividly recalled and felt, discussing their impact on our lives and perceptions of time and place. Does the soundscape of Lövholmen’s noisy industrial past, or the sounds of nature reclaiming the empty spaces, shape our collective identity?
Can we create an auditory time capsule for future generations by capturing the current soundscape of Lövholmen?
Guided listening exercises, local sonic excursions, discussions and a collective field recording archival walk.
What sounds do you remember?
Can you play them back in your mind’s ear?
We hear sounds, but we also feel them in our bodies.
The warmth of a lullaby sung by your grandmother, ice cream and garbage trucks, the ocean breeze in the palm trees that summer you got really sick. A leaf blower in your local park, the t hundering backdrop of motorized traffic that sounds just like the city you grew up.
A workshop and a collective act of listening, remembering, archiving and speculating about Lövholmen’s past, present, future and future past. Together we will explore how sounds from our past can be vividly recalled and felt, discussing their impact on our lives and perceptions of time and place. Does the soundscape of Lövholmen’s noisy industrial past, or the sounds of nature reclaiming the empty spaces, shape our collective identity?
Can we create an auditory time capsule for future generations by capturing the current soundscape of Lövholmen?
Guided listening exercises, local sonic excursions, discussions and a collective field recording archival walk.
The "Platform Deep Dive" initiative positions Platform Stockholm as a central hub for artistic reflection on the ongoing transformation of Lövholmen from an industrial area to a residential hub. Each year, the program invites an artist to create site-specific work that captures the effects of these changes on local artists, the community, businesses, and residents. Public Retreat is the first artist entry invited to inaugurate this program.
All images and drawings ©PUBLIC RETRAT - Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.
All images and drawings ©PUBLIC RETRAT - Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.
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