Who scares whom?, 2022
The project Who scares whom is about the city of Gothenburg’s use of ”sound scares”, often called ”Mosquito Buzzers”. These devices are set up at schools, preschools, and shopping malls and emit high-frequency sounds at night that only people under 25 can hear. The purpose of the devices is to scare young people away from the places.
Installation, 2022
Projection cages, photographs, found objects, and parts of Gothenburg city’s wastebaskets.
Size: variable
1. Bureaucratic odyssey
Collection of email correspondence with Gothenburg municipality, civil servants, and politicians. (cage 1)
Size: 310 x 260 x 30 mm
2. What do your eyes hear?
Video loop with spectrogram of the buzzer frequency, sound of the buzzer frequency, only audible to people under 25 years of age. Others must listen with their eyes. Raspberry Pie, screen, speakers. (cage 2)
Video loop 29 sec., mp4
3. Buzzer chase
Field observation and performative actions at 5 schools. Photobook. (cage 3)
Size: 205 x 145 mm
4. BUZZER RAP
The rap text contains excerpts from the BUZZER
DIARY and the email exchange with the city of Gothenburg. MP3 player, speakers. Length: 11 min. 15 sec. BUZZER DIARY (The buzzers, life and everything around): Reversible book with original Swedish text on one side, English translation on the other. The text in the diary is a documentation of my process with the project. (cage 4)
Size: 215 x 165 mm
5. What do you hear? (See with your ears)
Remains of Performance, 2022-12-12, 11:15-11:30. Paper with answers from the participants. (cage 5)
Size of the protective cages: 260 x 220 x 220 mm