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Bachelor Show, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2023. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger


Approaching breach / Närmre brottet
8-channel sound installation,12.11 min, 2023.
Speakers, cables, rubber cylinders

Approaching breach is a sound installation situated in a passage at the Royal Insititute of Art, Stockholm. The work is built from fragmented recordings of a performance in which participants collectively worked with heavy, wet mud. These sonic fragments are arranged into rhythmic sequences that foreground moments of exertion, reorganizing every sound produced during the act to mirror its collective strain.

Planned and incidental sounds merge into an enveloping, wet rumble: low frequency drilling from nearby construction folds into the clatter of hands in mud, punctuated by the sharp squeaks of rubber soles. Their intrusion mirrors the physical exhaustion of the performance and the endurance sustained throughout. From there, the composition disperses into increasingly sparse movements, ending in a thin crackling strand.

The material is distributed through speakers placed at intervals and directed toward the floor and walls. Low frequencies strike the walls, while scraping and squeaking travel along the floor. The passage becomes a space for indirect, bodily listening.



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