HARP ART LAB - Provider of Fine Sound Art

BZZZ! International Sound Art Festival 2014 is over for this year and we will thank all the artists and the audience who made BZZZ! to a great success! In the coming weeks we will bring you the best from all the concerts and performances.

But for now: enjoy the Trailer below!

In recent years, bee colonies have collapsed in several parts of the world. Nobody knows for sure why, but a variety of different and sometimes contested theories have been presented and debated.

To put focus on this issue HARP ART LAB invited artists and beekeepers to create installations and performances connected to the theme of honey bees, thereby transforming Harplinge windmill into a "hive" of sounds.

The response have been overwhelming with participators from Sweden, Poland, Ireland, UK, Norway, Lithuania, USA, Finland and Turkey. The ambition to create processes in the community between local residents and artists from abroad, have been achieved. 

The project continues... 

Harp Art Lab is open every weekend Friday to Sunday when you can experience some amazing site specific installations made for the festival. The exhibition consists of 12 site-specific works connected to the theme of honey bees: non camera animations, conceptual computer games, interactive sound sculptures, video installations, wallpaintings, drawings and custom built instruments.

Participating Artists

Charli Clark/Can Uzer, Bioni Samp, Softday, Niklas Sjösvärd, Agnes Mercedes, Leif Holmstrand, Ruta Vitkauskaite, Maciej Baczyk/Aga Jarzabowa, Rima Otilia Qvale, Simon Mattisson, Klara Andersson, Mikael Reuter, Mikael Ericsson, Stefan Isebring/Hanna Östergren, Michele Collins, Sara B Nilsson, Ann Louise Liljedahl, Rickard Fredborg Zabutom

Curator: Kajsa Magnarsson

Contact: Mikael Ericsson
ericsson@trumtrum.se
www.harpartlab.se
0046 70 730 4631

ABOUT US

Harp Art Lab is a laboratory for sound- and climate art situated in Harplinge Windmill on the Swedish west coast. The Lab is a unique platform for developing, innovative, interdisciplinary ideas and we work with artists and communities of interest to create performances and installations.

Our main methodology is a socially engaged and discursive sound art practice. The motivations behind our work are predominantly environmental, political, and social in as much as we are attempting to re-mediate contested territories in a scientific and creative way to the public.

In 2012 the lab initiated the wind driven, site specific sound installation Millophonia. This year we continue our work about sustainability and climate change in BZZZ! International Sound Art Festival 2014, a project about the life of honey bees and the current threats as Colony Collapse Disorder.

Founders: Julijana Nemeti & Mikael Ericsson