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. 

In the project 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. They explore how instruments, time and movement are included in and affect the relationships between bodies, images and places, between experience and representation, in various forms of field recordings. Their collaboration resulted in an exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall in Asker, Norway, March 12th- April 24, 2022 which is presented and reflected upon in this publication.

This publication includes a text which was originally written for a pamphlet distributed by Trafo Kunsthall in 2022, edited by Peter Dean. It was rewritten and extended for this publication which includes photos by Peter Dean, Ellen Røed and Signe Lidén. Editor Rune Søchting was a conversation partner throughout the project.