Will you remember Lövholmen? Listening workshop with Public Retreat

We hear sounds, but we also feel them in our bodies.
The warmth of a lullaby sung by your grandmother, ice cream and garbage trucks, the ocean breeze in the palm trees that summer you got really sick. A leaf blower in your local park, the thundering backdrop of motorized traffic that sounds just like the city you grew up.

PUBLIC RETREAT and Platform Stockholm invites you to join a collective act of listening, remembering, archiving and speculating about Lövholmen’s past, present, future and future past.

Together we will explore how sounds from our past can be vividly recalled and felt, discussing their impact on our lives and perceptions of time and place. Does the soundscape of Lövholmen’s noisy industrial past, or the sounds of nature reclaiming the empty spaces, shape our collective identity?
Can we create an auditory time capsule for future generations by capturing the current soundscape of Lövholmen?

The workshop will feature guided listening exercises, local sonic excursions, discussions and a collective field recording archival walk.

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Join us on Thursday 29th of August 18:00-20:00 for a city listening and archive workshop hosted by PUBLIC RETREAT’s soundartist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen(DK) and architect Johanna Fager (SE).

The workshop is free, there will be coffee, tea, water and a simple snack.

The workshop will be held in English.
Johanna and Nicole can assist in Swedish and Danish if needed.

Only 10 spots available. Secure a spot by emailing number of participants to
contact@public-retreat.com

We meet at Platform Stockholm, Färgkontoret, Lövholmsgränd 12, 117 43 Stockholm.
Parts of the workshop will take place outdoors, so please dress according to the weather. No prior technical experience required.
Very welcome! 

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PUBLIC RETREAT is an interdisciplinary, practice-based art project centered around the exploration of our common auditory urban environment and the human, non-human and more-than-human experiences of and relations to it.

PUBLIC RETREAT makes site and context specific sound-, radio-, visual-, and text-based works, workshops and listening events. The project is led by composer and sound artist Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen (DK), visual artist and writer Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse (NO) and architect and artist Johanna Fager (SE), with an international network of collaborators and conversation partners engaged.

PUBLIC RETREAT began their collaborative work in 2023 with the art and architect project NYA LÖVHOLMEN, which included semi-utopian citizen proposal for an entire new neighborhood; an absurd elevator pitch for a subterranean earth scraper to house all of mankind; the locally distributed NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE; and a radio show about city planning, voiced in part by an enthusiastic bird. NYA LÖVHOLMEN was nominated for the Architects Sweden’s 2023 Critics Award.

PUBLIC RETREAT is generously supported by Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norway), Danish Composers Society, Danish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, OPI Lab and Sound Art Lab, Struer.

https://public-retreat.com/
@public_retreat

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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. We aim to continue this initiative throughout the entire redevelopment phase of Lövholmen.