Installation: ”Friday evenings at six o’clock”

Love Antell, artist

Friday evenings at six o’clock is a virtual monument, in dialogue with the physical monument 535 by Ismo Kajander, erected in 1994. 

The piece poses questions about how digital works can constitute a new generation of public monuments and simultaneously provides a new kind of relationship to the memorial site of the specific events that occurred at Sirkkala during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. Antell’s piece in Turku is the first in a series of several digital works planned in both Finland and Sweden. By focusing on erected monuments, the project seeks to investigate the process of how history is transformed into cultural heritage and how this manifests as imprints in a divided urban space.

Antell has created an audiovisual piece of art made available through extended reality (XR) technology. The piece can be viewed using a mobile device; a smartphone and headphones. It consists of a spatial musical composition created from site-specific recordings that is developed into an interactive immersive experience. As the title suggests, the piece is both geographically positioned and time-bound. By combining archival material from the historical site with current digital interventions in the physical environment, the piece exposes different time layers simultaneously. 

Friday evenings at six o’clock can be viewed on your own mobile device at any time at the monument by Kurjenkaivonkenttä / Tranebrunnsplan.

The production of Friday evenings at six o’clock has been supported by the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Love Antell (1980)is a multimedia music and visual artist based in Gothenburg, with Swedish-Finnish heritage. He holds a Master’s degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Konstfack and has focused on animated light projections and digital media in public space. He has developed an artistic research project based out of the Stockholm University of the Arts, which includes Friday evenings at six o’clock as one of several planned works. The project explores the application of digital media at sites with a dissonant heritage, where the narrative lacks general consensus. 

www.loveantell.se

Image: Per Englund