kroppsfrämmande/foreign to the body, 2011
video with voiceover, 7:15min
Using onthology as a method trying to trace the idea of biopolitics.
Language as substance. An archeological detection.
SVART FET JORD/BLACK FAT SOIL, anthology, 2011
compiled by Imri Sandström, Linda Spjut and Ulrika Gomm
graphic design by Florian Ludwig
500 copies, English, b/w, 60pp, 120g, 21x29,7cm
with generous support from IASPIS
The anthology was launched at the evening SVART FET JORD at Fylkingen, Stockholm, 30th August 2011.
publishing pile #1
ISBN 978-91-976705-0-0
with contributions from: Dave Allen, Answers, Michael Baers, Jakob Eklund, Marcus Ekroth, Leif Elggren, Emma-Lina Ericson, Cecilia Germain, Ulrika Gomm, Delia Gonzalez, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Lise Haurum, Peter Kortmann, Erika Landström, Trevor Lee Larson, Clara López, C M Lundberg, Anna Lundh, Iwo Myrin, Per Kristian Nygaard, Lina Persson, Julia Pfeiffer, Rosaline Rannoch, Imri Sandström, Maxwell Simmer, Linda Spjut, Paula Urbano, Anna Wignell.
Crowd control, 2010
Poster, 10 copies, b/w, 170g, 42x59,4cm
Object, made of metal, plastic and electronic device, 35x22x22cm
Det stora huset/The big house, 2010
Two channel video installation, Fakultät/Det stora huset, silent, loop.
4:25/1:55min
A dollyshot through a handmade architectual replica of a forgotten educational instituion. A short-spoken text follows you along the corridors. Translation made by Mattias Forshage.
Fakultät/Faculty, stop-motion animated video, silent, 4:25min, loop, 2010
Teufelsberg’s location was nothing but haphazard, it was raised over the incomplete Wehrtechnischen Fakultät (The Military Technical Academy) designed by Albert Speer and envisaged to be included in Hitler’s Hochschulstadt. Utilising original drawings, images and other historical documents, Ulrika Gomm has recreated the building in the form of a model. The film Fakultät is a dolly shot through a monumental, but empty, building shell. The size of the projection sucks in the observer but the processing of the film material, which adds an animated expression, breaks the suggestion effectively. (Extract from the text kreiskrets written by Diana Kaur, 2010).
The mine, one channel video with low frequency sound, 2008
5:30min.
Luossavaraa-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) was founded in 1890. But the history of the Orefields dates back to the 1660s. It was then that the first known samples of the Gällivare ore were taken. The ore mountains of Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara were mentioned in writing for the first time in 1696. Many were aware that the mountains in the north bore great wealth, and many business ventures were started but were doomed to failure. It was not until the 1870s, with the advent of the Thomas process, a new method of producing steel from phosphorus-rich ore, that the ore deposits became commercially viable. Iron ore mining has driven the development of northern Sweden from sparsely populated mountain and woodland region to a modern industrialized region. To this day, the iron ore from the mines in Kiruna and Malmberget is the lifeblood of an entire region, even on the Finnish side of the Bay of Bothnia, where iron ore products from LKAB feeds the steel industry in Finland.
Today, more than 100 years after the mining started, big parts of the city of Kiruna must be moved because of the undermining of the area. Below ground LKAB has more than 400km of road and above ground the largest city in area in Sweden extend.
The shot is accompanied by a low frequency sound that might create a physical pressure on some people.
