ATTENTION! YOU ARE LEAVING THE HUMAN ZONE, 2015
Site-specific installation in Värnamo, commissioned by Vandalorum Art Museum, Sweden
Photo: Maja Spasova
CONFESSION FUNNELS, 2004
Site-specific interactive installation with 10 elements along the water quays in Stockholm, Sweden
Stainless steel, diam 6 cm, length variable between 2 and 14 m
Photo: Ulla Nordfors
HOUSE & CHAIN, 2018
Urban performance in Salzburg, Austria
Metal house 7,5 kg, metal chain 80 cm, leader collar, duration 1 hour
Photo: Cay Bobendorfer
PSSST, 2011
Site-specific interactive installation, European Culture Capital 2011, Turku, Finland
Short film portraits of people living in Turku, each with the gesture Pssst, appear in between the advertising on the digital screen on Market Place as well the digital screens on several city busses
Photo: Maja Spasova
MIGRATIONS, 2010 - collaboration with Anna Spasova
Site-specific installation at Palacio de la Mosquera, Spain
200 shoes made of white paper and cotton thread, each with size variable, approx 26 x 12 10 cm, 36 sq.m broken glass
Photo: Maja Spasova
DISTURBANCES/WAR, 2020
Site-specific installation at Ahlbergshallen, Sweden
HD-projection 1 hour 15 min in loop , sound composition 20 min in loop, images on transparency in light boxes, wood, metal, textile, sugar cubes
Photo: Maja Spasova
BINDU, 2014
Site-specific on Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal
Hot chili powder, white chalk, diam 3 m, duration 3,5 hours
Photo: JUJU
Stills form PSSST, 2011
GREY THOUGHT & BLACK THOUGHT, 2007
Site-specific installation at the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Two inflatables made of synthetic canvas, air aggregates, timers, electrical power, total size 6 x 4 x 30 m
During 30 min the volumes grow to their maximum sizes, following 30 min they shrink to the ground
Photo: Viktoria Spasova
WHITE MEADOW, 2009
Site-specific installation at Ragdale Foundation, USA
1500 wings of white paper create a new sound and light environment in the prairie, wind and rain dissolve the installation within a week, each wing approx 10 x 5 cm,
Photo: Sara Powell
Performance RIKSGATAN - FÅGELGATA, 1992
Photo: Martin Peres
BRIGHT SHINY ME, 2013
Site-specific sound and light installation at UVA, commissioned by VCCA, USA
4500 synthetic mirrors each 10 x 10 cm, sound composition 25 min run as a canon and in a loop from 6 different positions around the mirror surface, 6 sound amplifiers, 24 loudspeakers, total 20 x 20 m
The sound composition is a collaboration with Luis Hilario Arevalo
THE DREAMS' BOW, 1999
Part of THE DREAMS' PLACE, permanent site-specific installation, Linköping, Sweden
Stainless steel, hand polished, length 68 m, diam 21 cm
Photo: Maja Spasova
VOYAGE ROMANTIQUE SUR LA SEINE, 1996
Projection of lonely-heart ads along the quays during a 3 hours boat tour on Seine, Paris, France
Photo: Maja Spasova
TRAVELLING LIGHT, 1989
8 km journey with a rowing boat, dragging a fire-tail 200 m long, duration one night, Lake Mälaren, Sweden
THE ARCH OF THANKS, 2001
Site-specific installation at Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin, Germany
Stainless steel, 5 x 5 x 1 m, sandblasted authentic "thank-you" notes, written by people begging on the street
Photo: Maja Spasova
MY DARLING, 2012
Site-specific interactive sound installation under Central Bridge, Stockholm, Sweden
12 channels sound composition with voices calling on their beloved ones in different languages, 64 loudspeakers, 14 amplifiers, 900 m sound cable, 4 rowing boats for the audience. Commissioned by Stockholm Culture Festival
Photo: Johnny Green
Details from DISTURBANCES/WAR, 2020
ECSTASY, 2001
Kinetic sound installation, 20 objects of unglazed porcelain, 20 dildos, cables, transformer, electric power
Photo: Corne Bastiaansen
4000 FEATHERS, 2001
Interactive sound installation, 4000 feathers made of unglazed porcelain, each approx 2 x 8 x 0.1 cm, cotton threads
Photo: Corne Bastiaansen
PROJECT 35 W, 2012
Site-specific sound and light installation on Mississippi River in Minneapolis, USA
35 huge lifebuoys approx diam 4 m, 35 anchors, sound composition with voices of people living in Minneapolis reading 35 poems by Todd Boss
Photo: Maja Spasova
TIMEPOOL AND TWO HEAVENLY PILLARS, 1993
Site-specific installation at National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Sandblasted glass diam 180 cm, cast iron support h 30 cm, 2 Plexiglas columns, h 200 cm, diam 20 cm, 120 l water, 2 electric pumps, PVC-hose, base 50 x 50 x 50 cm, medals for sculptures made of laser engraved oxidized aluminium, red silk ribbons
Photo: Gunnar Smoljansky
BED & BREAKFAST, 2006
Site-specific installation on Parliament Square, Dakar as part of Dak'Art Biennial, Senegal
10 wooden beds with 90 kg bread-dough in each of them, duration one day
Photo: Maja Spasova
ENCOUNTERS, 2010
Site-specific interactive sound installation at Palacio de la Mosquera, Spain
"Hola" and "Adios" with the voices of people living in Arenas de San Pedro, sound equipment along the 4 floors of the palace, rope 20 m, mirror 4 sq.m
Photo: Maja Spasova
THE DREAMS' GATE, 1999
Part of THE DREAMS' PLACE, Linköping, Sweden, stainless steel, water jet cut, sand blasted, 300 x 300 x 3 cm
Photo: Maja Spasova
THE LAST JUDGEMENT, 2000
50 000 paper leaves with the text "guilty" or "not guilty" thrown out of a helicopter over Sergels torg, Stockholm, Sweden
The wind delivers the judgements to the audience waiting on the streets
Photo: BN Reklam & flygfoto
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QUESTION MARK, 2007
Site-specific installation on the roof of the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Inflatable, synthetic canvas, air aggregate, electric power, 10 x 6 x 2 m
Photo: Håkan Lindblad
From the series ЛУК [LUC] - ONION, 2014
10 images and one poem, Epson print on Baryta paper, each 24 x 30 cm
The poem is co-written with JUJU
Details from THE WALL OF DREAMS, 2001
Photo: Maja Spasova
HAPPENING PLAZA CALLAO, 1987
250 kg bread-dough in the fountain, growing and changing shape under the sun, duration one day, Plaza Callao, Madrid, Spain
Photo: Anibal Merlo
THE ELBOWS OF ZEN, 2011
Site-specific installation at Vermont Studio Center, USA
100 elbows belonging to fellows writers and artists at VSC, plaster casts scale 1:1, white chalk, total surface 6 x 7 m
Photo: Maja Spasova
One of the letters included in SECRETS, 2003
THE GOLDEN BRAID, 2015
Site-specific installation on the South tower of Lund Cathedral, Sweden
Polypropylene rope 900 m, golden paint, metal support on four points along the facade, total length 21m, diam 0,25m
Photo: Kristina Strand Larsson
THE DIAMOND OF SANCY, 2009
Site-specific installation on the top of Volcan du Tartaret, Murol, France
Synthetic mirror, metal, wood, solar panel, sound composition, sound equipment, h 3 m, diam 4 m
Photo: Nathalie Fort
SECRETS, 2003
Site-specific installation at Liljevalchs Art Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Projections of authentic letters, anonymously sharing personal secrets. The letters were collected 2001-2003
Photo: Jan Almeren
PROJECT RIKSGATAN - FÅGELGATA, 1992
Poster campaign in Stockholm and performance with bread, pigeons, airplane in front of and above Sweden's parliament
Photo: Marie Rosen
RING OF FIRE, 1990
Site-specific installation at Sommer Atelier, Hannover, Germany
Metal, burning gas, diameter 2 m
Photo: Maja Spasova
WATER COLUMN, 2021
Site-specific installation in front of Stadtbilbliothek Salzburg, Austria
Image on transparency, Plexiglas, LED-lights, metal, concrete, H 4,2 m diam 1 m
THE WALL OF DREAMS, 2001
Part of the permanent site-specific installation THE DREAMS' PLACE, Linköping, Sweden
Ceramic tiles, 20 x 20 cm, ceramic glaze, authentic letters from people living in Linköping, sharing their wishes and dreams for the future, total size of the wall 2 x 20 m
Photo: Ulla Nordfors
B/W, 2018
Site-specific installation in the river, Nortälje Art Gallery, Sweden
Tarpaulin in two colours, stainless wire, 8 anchors, diam 5 m
Photo: Maja Spasova
4000 FEATHERS at Borås Art Museum
Photo: Maja Spasova
WINGED, 1997
Permanent site-specific installation at SOS-center Stockholm, Sweden
11 Plexiglas columns, h 180 cm, diam 18 cm, stainless steel, sandblasted glass, diam 180 cm, 2 aluminium globes, diam 100 cm, 100 l water, electric pump, total size 8 x 6 x 5 m
Photo: Maja Spasova
RUBY, 2015
Site-specific installation at Vandalorum Art Museum, Sweden
Inflatable made of semi-transparent PVC, cotton ropes, sound composition 30 min run in a loop, DOLBY-surround system
TRANSFUSION 10 x 3, 1991
Blood specimen, PVC-tube 3 m, laser light, optical fiber 10 m, pink marble, Plexiglas, wood,
13 x 40 x 70 cm
Photo: Maja Spasova