INSTALLATIONS
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Lösning [Solution] II
An emergency stop button is mounted on top of a pipe, placed in the middle of a glass pavilion. From loudspeakers the sound from outside the pavilion can be heard. Sound is transmitted live via a microphone directly outside the pavilion, through an amplifier and a timer switch. When the emergency stop button is pressed, the sound from outside the pavilion is turned off. After a couple of minutes the sound turns itself back on again, to be heard until the next time someone presses the emergency stop button. Street View, Gothenburg 2010
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Current Information – open vision
The entire building, Dunkers Kulturhus [Centre for the Arts], is turned into a statistical indicator. Ten floodlights with colour filters are mounted at the top of Dunkers Kulturhus's front facade. The filters are coloured green, yellow and red, resembling the sound level gauge on e.g. a stereo. The building's facade floodlights are connected, via a light control unit, with sensors that register the number of visitors entering the building's main entrance and will thus function as a visitor gauge. Each visitor walking through the entrance will trigger the floodlights, a pulse sequence from green to red. A certain number of visitors will make the first light to stay turned on. The more visitors the more floodlights will be lit. By the end of each day the light status of Dunkers Kulturhus corresponds with the number of visitors, thereby making the public’s use of the building transparent and freely available. Dunkers Kulturhus, 2009
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Zone – out of vision III
Six profiler lights, each connected to a motion detector, are mounted on three steel masts. Six squares of light, with sharp edges, are projected onto the bridge leading to the museum. When a person enters a light square the light switches off. It turns on again when no body motion can be detected in the light square area(s). Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, 2009
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Revolving Beacon
The central structure of Gunnar Asplund's famous Stockholm City Library is a rotunda, placed on a boxy plinth, containing the actual library. The library and its cylindrical rotunda towers over the Norrmalm neighbourhood. As a temporary performative installation Hellberg is turning this landmark library building into a lighthouse placing a strong and rotating light inside the rotunda. Lying close to Asplund’s idea where light from within the building should show its activity Hellberg gives the whole building a different behaviour. The building itself is turned into a visual debate argument, pointing out its existence, in times when the town as well as the library is going through a new development phase – a lighthouse at the end of the world. Stockholm City Library, Stockholm, 2008.
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Privileged Situation – utopian vision
Privileged Situation – utopian vision is an interactive installation, a device, which is an attempt to create a metaphoric simulator where people will be in involuntary interaction with an electro-technical structure. The device monitors a defined space and feeds back light if objects are detected within the space. The principle is simple; a sensor detects an object and triggers a small lamp to cast a narrow beam of light onto the object Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, 2008
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Observe
A superseded weather measuring station weather station, at Lyngvig Lighthouse, was renovated together with a slight modification of the cabinet and had the addition of an observation platform. It now stands, somewhat displaced directly by the North Sea, as an outpost facing the elements, inviting people to take a good look at the current weather and landscape situation. Lyngvig Lighthouse, West Jutland, Denmark, 2008
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My Electrical Fence III
An electrical fence, 6 metres in length, runs in a straight line across a court yard. Arnstedt & Kullgren, Östra Karup, Sweden
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Territory – construction
Motion sensors are monitoring a lawn used for sun bathing in the summer, as well as the adjacent river (The River Spree), where canoeing and punting is frequent. When a sensor is triggered by a body’s motion it turns one speaker’s sound on. The sound is on for 1-2 minutes. Aquamediale 3, 2007
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My Electrical Fence II
An electrical fence, 50 metres in length, runs in a straight line across a lawn, with plenty of open space surrounding it. Pastiche, 2007
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Zone – out of vision II
Three profiler lights, each is connected to a motion detector, are mounted on three steel masts. Three squares of light, with sharp edges, are projected onto the pavement. When a person enters a light square the light switches off. It turns on again when no body motion can be detected in the light square area(s). urban interface | berlin , Berlin, 2007
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Zone – out of vision I
External halogen flood lights are mounted on the lamp posts along a park lane, motion detectors control the light . When a body is moving inside the lit area, covered by the detectors, the light switches off. If there’s no motion in the area the light is on, standing still inside the zone or being outside of it are the only possibilities to obtain light. Article, 2006
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Pulsing Path – ambiguous vision
Lamp-posts are controlled, their light is dimmed in a cyclic order, the light slowly changes from light to darkness, from darkness to light. Madrid Abierto, 2006
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Guide
Steel stands of varying heights are placed in a sliding scale and topped by electric lights similar to the guiding lights at the end of an airport runway. The flashing lights are connected in order to create a constantly ‘running’ effect. After the lights on the tallest stand have flashed those on the next stand flash and so on, down to the shortest stand, at which point the phase starts again from the highest stand. Umedalens Skulptur, 2006
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Lösning / Solution
An emergency stop button is mounted on top of a pipe, placed in the middle of a glass pavilion. From loudspeakers the sound from outside the pavilion can be heard. Sound is transmitted live via a microphone directly outside the pavilion, through an amplifier and a timer switch. When the emergency stop button is pressed, the sound from outside the pavilion is turned off. After a couple of minutes the sound turns itself back on again, to be heard until the next time someone presses the emergency stop button. Momentum 4, 2004
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My Area
Graphic originating from signs on which red and white stripes mark out property, or are used to signal a warning - that is, a mark of authority. The text describes the average message used to mark out property combined with numbers describing an area: the area covered by the sign. The area of the poster is equivalent to the area described by the figures printed on it.
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Blinka Malmö stadsbibliotek / Flash Malmö City Library
A public building’s light flashes after closing hours. Malmö, 2002
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