Katt Hernandez

Time: 13 December 19:30
Location: Konsthall C
Free entry, all are welcome.

Stockholm has buildings that have been there for centuries, but is also full of modern and contemporary architectures, all jostling for their place in parallel collective memory. The materials in Katt Hernandez's eight year sound-based research project are drawn around themes of urban memory and transformation, psychogeography and the ghosts of the imagined city. Each individual draws phantoms of memory and imagination onto the cityscape, and this yields subtle ways people can be empowered in their surroundings. The artistic works are made to illuminate those subtleties through the evocation of the Ephemeral City, centering around a group of compositions, improvisations, artistic collaborations and sound installations in music and sound. 

The project is built from music and sound works using modular synthesisers, field recordings, pipe organs, multi-channel settings, PureData and SuperCollider programs, string ensembles with hurdy-gurdy and nyckelharpa or violin and sound installations. This choice of instruments is an allegory to the architecture of Stockholm. The final result is a collection of music and sound works, made to illuminate the imagined city. Hernandez has presented her acoustic mappings of Stockholm throughout the project in a variety of settings, and recently defended her PhD project The Ephemeral City: Songs for the Ghost Quarters, at Lund university.

During the event Hernandez will present a selection of music and sound works from The Ephemeral City: Songs for the Ghost Quarters. After the performance the artist will be in conversation with artistic director Ulrika Flink (Konsthall C), and independent curator Anna Kontopoulou (Konsthall C).

On the 16th of December, she will create a brand new site-specific sound installation specifically focusing on Hökarängens acoustic ecologies. Read more here.