january 19 – march 6, 2026 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
january 17, 2026 Release: Halffloor #10
Lineup: Savannah Agger, Tim Elzer, Jessica Robinson, Rachel Daniëls, JEANS BEAST, Alice Ferl, Anastasia Ax, hidden technology, Walter Berge, Hadrian Prett and Jörn Elling Wuttke.
january, 2026 Omloppsbanor kring ett (nomadiskt) arkiv / Orbits Around a (Nomadic) Archive
A book by r ak e t a. More here.
september 18 – 21, 2025 Halffloor: Chain Reaction / Ripples Across a Pond. World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, Sweden.
Exhibition, live performance and broadcast/streaming via wavefarm.org. Halffloor Crew: Susanne Skog, George Kentros, Marie Gavois, Michel Klöfkorn. More here.
september 26 – 28, 2025 Glasherbariet _ insert / Nattljus: The Botanical Garden, Visby
Flashlight walks & night photography workshops. r a k e t a / Dekker, Falk, Lipka, Ljusberg, Skog.
august 19 – october 13, 2025 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
august 7 – 11, 2025 Halffloor: Walking the Very Long Wave. World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, Sweden.
Research trip, field recordings – travelling on foot and by sailing boat the length of one longwave, transmitted from Grimeton: 17,44 km. Halffloor crew / Susanne Skog, Marie Gavois, Michel Klöfkorn.
may 11, 2025 Release: Halffloor #9
Lineup: Assar Tallinger, Chrissie Butler, Eva Marklund, Malte Dahlberg, Marta Forsberg, Materialeinschüchterung, Noko, Oliver Husain, Samuel Hertz, Tintin Patrone, Virginia Genta and Zach Rowden.
may 5, 2025 Folkbildningsoperan, Stockholm
Public performance of Folkbildningsoperan (fixed audio piece for 50 voices and 6 speakers) by Susanne Skog and John Swedenmark.
april 12, 2025 Stockholms litteraturmässa, Kulturhuset
Short seminar by Nutida Musik (Susanne Skog & Magnus Bunnskog): Texten som klangkälla (”Text as sonic material”).
march 16 – 23, 2025 Glasherbariet _ LAB, Visby
Exhibition & workshop at Konst och Form. r a k e t a / Dekker, Falk, Lipka, Ljusberg, Skog.
march 15, 2025 Radio Art Festival at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus
including Glasmolnet by Susanne Skog, with an epilogue by poet and literary scholar Sofia Roberg, and Milton Jordansson Pinto.
january 20 – march 3, 2025 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
december 20, 2024 Opening Night, Glasherbariet.
Exhibition by r a k e t a at Studio Ljusberg, Östersund.
october 28 – november 3, 2024 Glasherbariet: r a k e t a research tour around the Netherlands.
september 29, 2024 Release: Halffloor #8
Lineup: Cecilia Enberg, Cheryl Evans, Ess Whiteley, Glenda Keam, James Gardner, Jan Ehlen, Maria Mayland, Miki Yui, Mirjam Baker, Oikonomopoulu Lee Korn, Raed Yassin, Stefan Schneider, Tove Nowén.
september 22, 2024 stenar_fall_ljus III. St Olofs Ruin, Visby
Electro acoustic concert in the ruined church of St. Olof, in the DBW's Botanical Garden in Visby. A piece by r a k e t a / Falck & Skog. Saxophone: Jens Comén.
september 3 – 6, 2024 Halffloor crew at World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, Sweden.
Research trip and the first step in a project circling around this longwave transatlantic wireless telegraphy station built in 1922–1924. It's the last one of its kind, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage.
july 5 – october 5, 2024 Communicating Vessels. Ljudbänken at Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
“The Sound Bench”, is run by Audiorama as a touring public sound art installation. More about the project and the piece.
may 18, 2024 stenar_fall_ljus II. St Olofs Ruin, Visby
Electro acoustic concert in the ruined church of St. Olof, in the DBW's Botanical Garden in Visby. A piece by r a k e t a / Falck & Skog.
february 10, 2024 Release: Halffloor #7 The Dark Collection
Lineup: Sol Andersson, Frauke Aulbert, Kelsey Cotton, Munk Engelung, Joshua Weitzel, Henrik Frisk, eurodyke, Chie Nagai, Paul Purgas, Nelly Quist, Sven Rånlund, Torben Piel, Elaine Maths.
december 1, 2023 – september 1, 2024 Elektronmusikstudion – konst, teknik och politik. Exhibition at Scenkonstmuseet, Stockholm
Elektronmusikstudion EMS – Art, Technology and Politics, at Swedish Museum of Performing Arts. S Skog: exhibition text, co-curator and part of content production team. More about the exhibition.
october 29, 2023 Fylkingens flyttfest - Grande finale - Ordförandekväll!
The very last event at Fylkingen's venue at Münchenbryggeriet. Pieces by all the artists that has been elected chair persons for the Fylkingen Society over its 37 years on this adress.
july 13, 2023 Release: Halffloor #6 Hot Summer Collection.
Lineup: Gabi Schaffner, Mats Lindström, Rym Nouloua, Farida Amadou, Helena Persson, Jana De Troyer, Ami Kohara, Helene Hedsund, Fredrik Mathias Josefson, Mattias Hållsten, Michel Wenzer, Graw Böckler.
may 27, 2023 Halffloor Centenary Celebration
A party for the first 100 minute sound art pieces of the Halffloor project! Installations, performances, bingo and more. The crew: George Kentros, Marie Gavois, Michel Klöfkorn, Susanne Skog. Fylkingen at Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm.
may 20, 2023 Fyrec Triple Release: Siberia/Sirens and more, Fylkingen
Concert and party for Siberia/Sirens (LP/CD/DA, FYLP 1043) as well as for new releases by Lisa Stenberg and Johannes Bergmark at Fylkingen Records (Fyrec).
march 20, 2023 "Elektronisk musikvår" at Svensk Musikvår, Fylkingen
An electro acoustic concert, arr. Audiorama at MDT (Moderna Dansteatern), Stockholm. A selection of pieces by among others, Susanne Skog. More.
march 7, 2023 Folkbildningsoperan at Göteborgs Litteraturhus
an audio play/fixed piece by John Swedenmark and Susanne Skog. The performance was followed by reflexions by and a public conversation with the invited guest Sven-Eric Liedman, author and Professor Emeritus of history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg.nfo about the piece, see below at december 15, 2022 or clic
here.
december 15, 2022 Folkbildningsoperan. Premiere at Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus
a fixed piece for 50 voices and 6 speakers, by John Swedenmark and Susanne Skog. The text consists of the full content of a broschure from 1922, published by the Stockholm Section of ABF (the Workers’ Educational Association). More about the piece.
october 24 – november 7, 2022 Katsuben project, Tokyo.
Research trip and performance at Koyata Aso’s Katuben festival oct. 31:st at the Toyokan theatre in Asakusa, Tokyo. First events of an ongoing collaboration with the Benshi artist Koyata Aso, opera artist Loré Lixenberg, violinist George Kentros and Susanne Skog.
october 15, 2022 Release: Halffloor #5 Heading for 100 + Hlfflr100 Space Lounge – Live event at Fylkingen
Lineup: Paul Pignon, KABLAM, Jenny Pickett, Brenda El Rayes, Nica Son, Patric Simmerud, Wolfgang Van Ackeren, Les Marquises, Fatigue Suspecte, Patsy Lassbo, Tomas Hulenvik, Jeff Henderson, Multipolar and Halffloor Crew:Susanne Skog, George Kentros, Marie Gavois, Michel Klöfkorn.
september 12 – october 10, 2022 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
july 13, 2022 stenar_fall_ljus I, Nonagon festival, Svanö
First performance of a piece for fixed media and live performance by raketa /Falck & Skog.
june 13, 2022 Besökare (The Visitors), a permanent sound art piece in Ronneby, Sweden
A permanent sound installation in Kilenparken, commissioned by Ronneby kommun. The artwork is situated in two big willow trees next to the river in the center of the small town Ronneby in southeastern Sweden (a sonic artwork, 4 speakers, 2 player units.)
In coop. with violinist George Kentros, arborist Lotta Persson, programming consultant Jim Skog Pirinen. Technical solutions and constructions: Daniel Araya & Co).
april 20 – 24, 2022 Jungfru Catharina, Bildstenshallen, Gotlands museum
A sound art installation by Susanne Skog (7 channels/speakers). The FRST festival 2022, arr. by VICC, Audiorama and Gotland School of Music Composition. More.
april 23, 2022 VEMS: Lugna monoliter och elektroniska favoriter, Fylkingen.
EAM concert during Kulturnatten, with a big collection of mainly Swedish pieces/composers. Arr: VEMS.
march 20, 2022 Sirens. Premiere at Svensk Musikvår, Fylkingen.
First performance of Sirens (multichannel version) by Susanne Skog.
january 24 – february 21, 2022 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
september 6 – october 10, 2021 Teaching at the Electronic Music Studio
Introductory course: the history of EMS and the history and development of electroacoustic music and sound art.
september 4, 2021 Release: Halffloor #4 Catwalk
Lineup: Leif Elggren, Broken Dreams, Lisa Stenberg, Eve Sussman/Algis Kizys/Simon Lee, Klöfkorn/Gavois, Johanna Paulsson, Bobodrone, The Hallicrafters, Johannes Grehl,Theodor Kentros, Dennis Dycks, Henrik Olsson, Joachim Nordwall, Thelma Asine, Anna Hjalmarsson, Sören Runolf, Ryosuke Kiyasu, Benjamin Fehr, Ythma Admis, Helena Tsmail, Daniel Araya, Rieko Okuda and halffloor crew: Marie Gavois, George Kentros, Susanne Skog.
august 28, 2021
Part one of a new public artwork by r a k e t a presented at the opening of Örebro konsthall’s new venue in Riksbankshuset at Kulturkvarteret, Örebro.
august 21, 2021 För Fåglarna. Premiere at Kulturhusets tak, Stockholm.
an electroacoustic piece by Susanne Skog.
february 6, 2021 Glasmolnet/The Glasscloud at Radioart.se
Premiere for the radio play (stereomix) at radioart.se. Introduction by Magnus Florin, and followed by a conversation with Magnus Florin, Maria Küchen, John Swedenmark and Susanne Skog. More here (also available with english subtitles).
january 7, 2021 Release: Halffloor #3 winter 2021
Lineup: Youngjae Lih, Kristin Kuldkepp, Taavi Suisalu, Sascha Brosamer, xname, Hiroko Tsuchimoto, Ekke Västrik, Leo Correia de Verdier, Michel Klöfkorn, Åsa Lipka Falck, Hara Alonso, Rzeng, Francesco Torelli, Majoscha, and Halffloor Crew: George Kentros, Marie Gavois, Susanne Skog.
october 28, 2020 Glasmolnet (The Glasscloud). Premiere at Atalante, Göteborg.
First performance of the hoerspiel Glasmolnet by Susanne Skog, the multichannel concert version. Dramaton is Audiorama’s biennial festival for hoerspiel/radio play.
october 2 – 11, 2020 Halffloor Half Festival
A three days online livestream-video festival, as the end of a ten days workshop in the abandoned 7 stories supermarket in central Duisburg, Germany.
With Halffloor (Marie Gavois, George Kentros, Susanne Skog) and Michel Klöfkorn (artist, filmmaker), in cooperation with radio artists Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, and trombonist Heiko Mancke.
april 3, 2020 Release: Halffloor #2 2020 Spring collection
One minute new sound art pieces to be published every other saturday. Lineup: Mattias Sköld, Lisa Ullén, Anna-Karin Brus, Mari Kretz, Dror Feiler, Lore Lixenberg, @Mobile Radio/ Sarah Washington and Knut Auferman, Michael Saup, Seroconversion, Aran Kleebyg, Sabine Vogel, Johannes Bergmark, Tony Blomdahl, Tullis Rennie, Sonja Tofik, Zafire Vrba,
and the halffloor crew: Marie Gavois, George Kentros and Susanne Skog.
march 21, 2020 Svensk Musikvår: Från Mono till multi, Fylkingen
Live streamed concert with EAM music, arr: SEAMS.
november 18, 2019 Siberia/Sirens
a release from Fylkingen records 2019 (LP/CD/DA, FYLP 1043). Two sonic artworks by Susanne Skog.
november 9 – december 29, 2019 [59°18’16.0”N 15°14’35.2”E] at Örebro konsthall, Sweden
A solo show by r a k e t a / Cecilia Enberg, Jann Lipka, Åsa Lipka Falck, Susanne Skog.
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may 18, 2019 Halffloor: World Premiere Night at Fylkingen
60 second sonic artworks podcast. By artists from everywhere. A new one every second week. Creators & Crew: Marie Gavois+George Kentros+Susanne Skog.
Year One Lineup: Vinyl Terror & Horror, Midori Mitamura, Ida Lundén, Mattias Petersson, Marja-leena Sillanpää, Lisa Domin, Qarin Wikström, Magnus Bunnskog, Dave Procter, Jesper Norda, Åsa Stjerna, Fredrik Olofsson, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Frauke Berg, Achim Zepezauer, and halffloor crew.
october 18 – 24, 2018 Ogijima, Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa prefecture, Japan.
Researchtrip (part of a raketa project). With support from the Swedish Authors’ Fund.
october 16 – november 18, 2018 Orbits around a (nomadic) archive. Exhibition at Void+ Gallery, Tokyo
by r a k e t a (Cecilia Enberg, Jann Lipka Falck, Åsa Lipka Falck, Susanne Skog) & Midori Mitamura. Opening night: october 16th, including concert with There are no more four seasons (George Kentros & Mattias Petersson). Workshop at the gallery, a part of Mitamura’s project Art and Breakfast. Part of the Embassy of Sweden´s program 150 years Sweden – Japan 2018.
october 13, 2018 Seminar at Shobi University, Tokyo.
Talk and workshop for composer students. George Kentros, Mattias Petersson, Susanne Skog.
october 12 – 24, 2018 Storm Bells (#2), Gallery Grisette, Tokyo
A sounding installation (transducer, objects, light and water from the Baltic sea). By Susanne Skog.
october 10, 2018 Sweden-Japan Artistic Music Lab. The Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo.
Lecture by Susanne Skog about the Swedish 1%-rule concerning art in public buildings and spaces, and some sonic artworks in public spaces in Sweden. In the foyer: Storm Bells (#1), an installation (sound & objects). Part of the Embassy of Sweden´s program "150 years Sweden – Japan 2018". Arr: Ark Hills Music Week/Glovil.
september 6, 2018 Alvesta Utställningshall.
Exhibition, raketa (Cecilia Enberg, Åsa Lipka Falk, Susanne Skog). Del i Processer, ett pågående projekt på Alvesta Utställningshall som följer den konstnärliga processen.
june 13 – 19, 2018 Researchresa till Island, Thórsmörk.
Trakten kring vulkanen Eyafjallajökull. Med stöd av Nordisk Kulturkontakt.
april 26, 2018 Catalysis, #2, Fylkingen, Stockholm
Fylkingens debattserie, key note: Susanne Skog.
april 21, 2018 Elektroakustiskt mångkanalsäventyr, Fylkingen, Stockholm
Konsert anordnad av VEMS under Stockholms kulturnatt.
march 23, 2018 Svensk Musikvår: sex svenska elektroakustiska verk (1955-2018)
Klangkupolen Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Stockholm. Verk av Bengt Hambraeus, Tommy Zwedberg, Paulina Sundin, Susanne Skog, Lise-Lotte Norelius och David Granström.
february 1, 2018 Jubileum! Nutida Musik 60 år
En jubileumskväll på Fylkingen. Samtal m redaktionen (Magnus Bunnskog och Susanne Skog) under ledning av Helena Lopac, konserter med Marja-leena Sillanpää, Em Silén samt Erik Peters & Peter Söderberg. The magazine Nutida Musik (Contemporary Music) celebrates its 60 year anniversary. Fylkingen.
january 27 – 27, 2018 FRST, Visby
An annual festival for electroacoustic music, arr. by VICC, Audiorama and Gotland School of Music Composition.
december 8, 2017 Nära marken | Vi ringde trädet. Det sa hej. Och hej då.
invigning, permanent offentligt verk på förskolan Regnbågen, av r a k e t a (Åsa Lipka Falk, Jann Lipka, S Skog). Beställare Örebro Konsthall/Örebro kommun. A permanent public art work by r a k e t a, commissioned by Örebro Art Gallery /Örebro municipality, Sweden
november 14 – 3 december 3, 2017
Composer in residency, Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC).
september 25 – november 26, 2017 EXPANDING TERRITORIES | Department of Lost Places and New Memories.
7th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art /Parallell program: The State Darwin Museum. r a k e t a & friends (Enberg, Danilova, Lipka, Comén, Biryukova, Mitamura, Samoilov, Skog, Voiushina, Fedoseev, Lipka Falck m fl). More
october 24 – 27, 2017 Far_North_Tour #2.
Jämtland (Östersund/ Alsen/Rista) Konsert, utställning & workshop. Medverkan och material: r a k e t a & friends ( Åsa Lipka Falck, S Skog, Cecilia Enberg, Jann Lipka, Mattias Sköld, Jens Comén, Stig Rennerstraum, Oleg Samoilov)
october 4 – 9, 2017 Tokyo Art Book Fair.
r a k e t a ( Åsa Lipka Falk/ Susanne Skog) takes part as exhibitors at TABF, compiling an alternate, sitespecific edition of the book/archive in process Orbits around a (nomadic) archive 2013 – 2016.
february 4 – march 26, 2017 Omloppsbanor kring ett (nomadiskt) arkiv 2013 – 2016 / Orbits around a (nomadic) archive 2013 – 2016.
Separatutställning (r a k e t a) på Karlskrona konsthall / A solo exhibition (r a k e t a ), Karlskrona Art Gallery, Sweden. Artists/editors: Åsa Lipka Falck / Susanne Skog.
december 16, 2016 Fylkingen, Stockholm. / Arkhangelsk / St Petersburg / Kälom / Moskva / den lilla tjärnen / Kenozero / Niagara / Vladivostok / Salvorev / Oxelösund / &&& /
Music, film and exhibition by and with Mattias Sköld, Åsa Lipka Falck, George Kentros, Susanne Skog, Timo Menke och R a k e t a & friends.
november 24 – december 4, 2016 Russia, Kenozero NP and Arkhangelsk
A r a k e t a tour and artistic cooperation with russian colleagues. Workshops and performances in the village Ust’-Pocha in Kenozero National Park / Workshops with students at school n:o 1 and n:o 21 in Arkhangelsk / Performance at the NARFU (Northern Arctic Federal University) / Exhibition at the Regional Scientific Library (Dobrolubov) combined with public performances (dance, music, film). R a k e t a (# Jens Comén, Cecilia Enberg, Susanne Skog, Åsa Lipka Falck) & Masha Biryukova, Oleg Samoilov (artists) and Susanna Voiushina (dancer, choreographer). Musicians: Andrey Shulgin, Daniil Rumyantsev & Evgenyi Mazilov.
july 6, 2016 Nutida Musik n:o 258
Release of the first issue by Nutida Musik´s new editors, Susanne Skog and Magnus Bunnskog. Nutida Musik (Contemporary Music) is a magazine for sound art and new music. It is the leading magazine on this field in the nordic countries and has been around for for almost 60 years. NM is published quarterly by the Swedish section of ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music).
june 19, 2016 VEMS på motståndsfestivalen, Teatermaskinen Riddarhyttan
EAM concert, Riddarhyttan, Sweden.
june 3 – 12, 2016 Eskilstuna konstmuseum: Omloppsbanor kring ett (nomadiskt) arkiv /Orbits around a (nomadic) archive (2013–2016) ed.1
Exhibition / edition at the art museum in Eskilstuna and a preface (june – dec) in Rademachersmedjorna/ The Rademacher Forges. r a k e t a # / lipka falck / lundgren tallinger / skog
march 8, 2016 Sveriges radio P1 kultur: BANG! En feministisk tidskrift fyller 25
About the swedish feminist magazine bang, and where the feminist discussion stands today. The program also tells about how it all started in the beginning of the 90-ies, when the program maker herself was one of the creators of the magazine. Bang is now one of the most read and influential swedish culture magazines. Listen here (in swedish).
december 18, 2015 Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, New York:
There are no more Four Seasons (George Kentros/Mattias Petersson) and Susanne Skog, first performance of the piece Siberia.
EI December 2015 Performance Series. Curator: Phill Niblock.
october 23 – december 4 2015 Gotland Film Lab Recidency at BAC–Baltic Art Center, Visby and film studio Kustateljén in Fårösund.
R a k e t a/Trans-siberian work shop on Gotland (SE/RU) Maria Kotlyachkova (writer, translator, curator), Timo Menke (visual artist), Nadya Gorokhova (visual artist), Ilya Grishaev (visual artist), Susanne Skog (sound artist).
october 3 – november 8, 2015 “Trans-Siberian Migrating Residency – Anthropological Research” A special program of the 6th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art.
Exhibition on the roof top at State Darwin Museum, Moscow. Results from the on-going r a k e t a project “Mobile Institute: House in the Forest. The school In between”: travels in Arkangelsk Oblast, a wooden house in the Kenozersky National Park restored by r a k e t a, and a nomadic residency that has traversed the entire eurasian continent.
september 22– 1 october 1, 2015 Trans-Siberian Migrating Residency
A part of the on-going r a k e t a -project “Mobile Institute: House in the Forest. The school In between”, a special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Four artists from Sweden and Russia will cross the continent with the train from Moscow to Vladivostok. This artistic research trip happens between the West and the East, crossing the whole country, constantly moving while the artists stay together for 7 days, 24 hours, in perpetual contact with an audience. Artists on the train: Susanne Skog, Timo Menke, Ilya Grishaev, Nadya Gorokhova, and co-curator Maria Kotlyachkova.
june 26 – august 17, 2015 Jungfru Catharina
Sound Installation/Composition, Oxelösund, Sweden. Commissioned by Sörmlands museum & Katrineholms kommun.
In the ceiling in the library in Oxelösund hangs the anchor from the ship Jungfru Catharina who sank nearby in october 1747 after a long unmanned trip over the Baltic Sea. This piece connects to this last voyage, and the morse signals from the radio beacons that once could be heard along this line.
february 7 – april 19, 2015 Brännpunkt Barents/Focalpoint Barents
Utställning på Havremagasinet i Boden. Sju konstnärer från Ryssland, Sverige, Norge och Finland deltar – samt Raketa & friends. Exhibition at Havremagasinet in Boden in the far North of Sweden. Seven artist from Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway – and Raketa & Friends. More
february, 2015 Fylkingen 80!
The book about Fylkingen from 1994 – 2013 – the year when Fylkingen celebrated its 80th birthday. Contents: 20 texts, all in both Swedish and English, lists of Fylkingen´s publications and all releases from Fylkingen Records. A catalogue over the more than 1 400 performances and an index. More than 50 pages of photographs and a DVD with video pieces and documentations.
Redaktör/Editor: Susanne Skog
december 2014 Call to mind
A Blu-ray featuring four films made by Gunvor Nelson plus a catalog booklet with texts by Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Susanne Skog, Steve Anker and John Sundholm.
december 1, 2014 “Suzanne Osten, geten och det normala”
Ett radioporträtt av en av Sveriges mest betydelsefulla regissörer någonsin. Producent: Susanne Skog. Sänds första gången 1/12 2014 i Sveriges Radio P1 kl 14.03, längd: 45 minuter..
september, october 2014 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Visitors! # The Mobile Institute. A portable Knowledge Lab on Tour. A Parallel event at Manifesta 10. An ongoing project driven by R a k e t a/Stockholm with participants/artists, musicians, researchers and curators from Sweden, Russia, Norway, Germany and other places.
january – february, 2013 “The Embassy Reconstructed"
A sonic investigation of the phenomenon "The Embassy" by six artists with the support of a chamber music ensemble. With: Brandon LaBelle, Jacob Kirkegaard, Juliana Hopkinson, Liv Strand, Susanne Skog, Åsa Stjerna (initiator) and KNM (Kammarensemble Neue Musik).
The Nordic Embassies Berlin and Transmediale 2013.
Susanne Skog: Communicating Vessels
Susanne Skog presents two semi-transparent glass vessel that transmit sound to
each other. The piece relates to territorial aspects of The Embassy (conceptual
stability/physical fragility), the degree of transparency and selective/encrypted
communication.
The Swedish Legation in Berlin was founded in 1912 at the same
place where the Nordic Embassies are located today. On November 22nd 1943 the
Swedish Embassy was destroyed during the bombing of the Tiergarten. The sounds
being transmitted between the cylinders are made up of recordings from Stockholm
and Berlin on November 22nd 2012.