11 c-prints on etching paper
41 x 58 cm (each unframed) 44.3 x 61.8 x 1.5 cm (each framed)

 
Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a composer and artist whose work across sound, performance, installation and photography investigates electricity, sound frequency and architectural space. Thomas Nordanstad is an artist and filmmaker. Since meeting in the early 1990s, Hausswolff and Nordanstad have collaborated on several projects, producing films and accompanying works in other media. Their joint works include Hashima, Japan, 2002, Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt, 2005, and Electra, Texas, 2008.
 
In 2012, the artists collaborated on a film titled Golden Days (Remedios, Colombia). The film is a moving image portrait of Remedios, a town and municipality in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia, where goldmining has been the prevalent industry for hundreds of years. It looks at how the mining industry has shaped life in Remedios, and the life of its community, and uses techniques such as electronic voice phenomena (EVP), and emission spectroscopy to build a soundtrack combining forms of static interpreted by some to be voices of the dead, and recordings of sounds emitted by the metallic minerals which reside in the mines. 
 
Siege (Remedios, Colombia 2012) comprises a series of images which arose during their making of this film. It is comprised of eleven photographs of cropped sections of house walls in the city, which are painted in an array of bright colours. Presented in the gallery, they take on the form of abstract monochromes. They reflect frames which appear throughout Golden Days, punctuating its more conventional moving images of life in the town with vivid blocks of colour. As such, they represent one of the ways in which the artists use different visual components to juxtapose scenes of domestic, working, and social life. However, these walls also carry a historical and political significance of their own, baring marks and physical traces of the civil conflicts which have taken place in Remedios involving the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). Despite their simplicity, the images thus might also be characterised by a subtle tension which derives from the move to mask the surfaces’ visible injury with vivacious colours. The photographs were presented alongside Golden Days in the artists’ exhibition, Dust to Dust at the Kummelholmen in Stockholm in 2016 and, in 2017, were displayed in an exhibition organised by Thyseen-Bornemisza Contemporary at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Lima, Peru called Atopia — Migration, Heritage and Placelessness, alongside works by eighteen other artists including Mario García-Torres, Los Carpinteros and The Atlas Group. –Elsa Gray

Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, architectural space, and paranormal electronic interference. Major exhibitions include Manifesta (1996), documenta X (1997), the Johannesburg Biennial (1997), Sound Art - Sound as Media at ICC in Tokyo (2000), the Venice Biennale (2001, 2003, and 2005), and Portikus, Frankfurt (2004). Von Hausswolff received a Prix Ars Electronica award for Digital Music in 2002.

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Thomas Nordanstad is an award winning Swedish filmmaker and artist living in London. His work has been exhibited and screened at a wide range of museums and art institutions such as the Fondation Cartier, Paris, the 2nd Moscow Art Biennale, The British Film Institute, London, Museum of modern art, Stockholm and Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris.

This biography is taken from the artist's website.