Exposition on the Research Catalogue

KOMPASS is part of the artistic research project Image as Site at Stockholm University of the Arts, where Ellen Røed and Signe Lidén have developed a method for field recording that combines sound and image in a distinct form of attentional (aesth)ethics. In various forms of camera-based field recordings, Røed and Lidén explore how instruments, time and movement are included in and affect the relationships between bodies, images and places, between experience and representation.  

After a series of field work in particular sites, where they worked with a continuously evolving rig, the artists shifted their attention from the field recording situation to the potential of the insights and material generated through these situations, in relation to an exhibition space, Trafo Kunsthall in Asker. Here they reorganised and developed the rig as well as the recorded audio-visual material with the aim to create fields of sound, images and devices that could afford a particular form of attention, not unlike what they had developed through the field experiences. 

Continuing their investigations, they developed an installation through a composition of sound, video and sculptural elements that could offer multiple perspectives to the viewer, create a sense of something passing through and around the space as currents of sound and image and that could be modulated by the viewer's movements in the space.  

KOMPASS, an artistic collaboration between Ellen J Røed and Signe Lidén, emerged as a separate project strand in the artistic research project Image as Site at Stockholm University of the Arts. It built on an earlier phase of the research project where Ellen Røed together with cinematographer and research assistant Ashley Briggs developed a dual camera rig for internal and external studies of sites. In KOMPASS, Lidén re-developed the rig for sound recording. Their collaboration resulted in an exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall in Asker, Norway, March 12th- April 24, 2022. 

This exposition on Research Catalogue serves to share and mediate the outcomes of the project through text, sound, moving images and photographs.