ARTISTIC RESEARCH, LISTENING SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS AND MORE. AT PLATFORM STOCKHOLM
2024
PUBLIC RETREAT at Platform Deep Dive
You hear the cars, the honking of their horns. You hear the loud bangs and the persisting sound from a pneumatic drill. The presence of your immediate surroundings. How are we, humans and more-than-humans, doing in our cities, really?
Who decides how the urban fabric develops and what it will sound - look - smell - feel like? And whose interests do they have in mind?
Building upon NYA LÖVHOLMEN - an artistic study on the redevelopment of the former industrial area in Stockholm, PUBLIC RETREAT has been invited to Platform Deep Dive.
During our time at Platform Stockholm we deepen our research and explore the auditory experiences, parameters and discourses of Lövholmen.
A public workshop, listening sessions and broadcasts are planned for August, October and December.
The "Platform Deep Dive" initiative positions Platform Stockholm as a central hub for artistic reflection on the ongoing transformation of Lövholmen from an industrial area to a residential hub. Each year, the program invites an artist to create site-specific work that captures the effects of these changes on local artists, the community, businesses, and residents.
Public Retreat is the first artist entry invited to inaugurate this program. Platform Stockholm aims to continue this initiative throughout the entire redevelopment phase of Lövholmen.
Listening event and collective talk with
PUBLIC RETREAT by the fire
What stories does Lövholmen have to tell?
How does its past inform its present?
In a place once marked by the Carbonic Acid Factory, which now lies in ruins, we’ll explore the role of fire in transformation—both as a destructive force and a source of warmth and connection.
As dusk falls, we’ll gather around a fire to listen, speak, and perhaps leave with more questions than
answers.
Will you remember Lövholmen?
What sounds do you remember?
Can you play them back in your mind’s ear?
PUBLIC RETREAT and Platform Deep Dive invited the public to join in a collective act of listening, remembering, archiving and speculating about Lövholmen’s past, present, future and future past.
Is it possible to create an auditory time capsule for future generations by capturing the current soundscape of Lövholmen?
The workshop featured guided listening exercises, local sonic excursions, discussions and a collective field recording archival walk.