Where Two Ends Meet

Lofi Radio / Beats at Forsvinde/Studere til (2024), Excerpt:

Photo: Jenny Sundby / Kunsthal Charlottenborg

'Lofi Radio / Beats at Forsvinde/Studere til' (2024) is a sound piece in the form of a musical score. Its melody stems from DSB muzak played at S-train stations in Copenhagen like Vanløse and Høje Taastrup during late hours – a sound engineered to deter loitering. Reimagined as a “lofi beat”, it echoes the aesthetic of popular, never ending study music streams on YouTube, a kind of music often used to aid focus and productivity, and blur out surroundings, creating new private spheres in public space.

By repurposing a hostile sonic tool into the inoffensive, sedative rhythm of study streams, the work hints at the indirect ways through which narratives of productivity get reinforced as well as the role sound can play in shaping behavior and our relationships to physical spaces.

Out of Map Tutorial, Drawing on paper, underside of shelf plate

This drawing is based on a screenshot from a YouTube tutorial, teaching players to venture “outside the map” in a video game.

Pore 2023, Under the Albani bridge in Odense, Photo by Mikkel Kaldal

Photo by Mikkel Kaldal