Anton Krohn

Multidisciplinary artist. Working towards a posthumanist understanding of the creative process. Barad, Braidotti and Haraway inspires me deeply. Sweden

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Hällingsåfallet 2019

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Crossroadsproject - Bleke Arkiv

 Crossroads project is a series of workshops made in dialogue with newcomers, artistis, students at Blekinge Institute of Technology and residents of Ronneby, led by architect Sepa Sama. We meet in Ronneby and Karlshamn to talk and listen to the stories of each other - and to create an exhibition of the stories of the world.

Me and Daniel Petersson was in charge of one part of the Crossroads installation, called Bleke Arkiv. The aim of Bleke Arkiv is to gather stories and objects from people living in Ronneby. Bleke Arkiv is an archive, but it is not only an archive of memories and the past, but the contemporary, the now. It is shaped like a wave, symbolizing that Ronneby is in constant change with every human, every object and story flowing through the city.

As a visitor you can sift through stories of past loved ones, every day events, tragedies and lucky days. You can look and touch objects loaded with loss, love, affection and hope.

Bleke Arkiv is currently exhibited as a part of the exhibition Make A Change, during the two months we continue to gather stories and objects by engaging locals and newcomers.

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A photographic experiment, a film soaked in coffee. Inspired by others who have made the same kind of experiment with either coffee, citric acid etcetera. My interest was to find a way of working with accidents or the uncontrollable. For me, the process is very satisfying as you always get surprised by the result and for the most part its an fortunate surprise. I could make a long argument or essay about the process, how this is a way of letting go of total control and the layers it creates, but I feel that the pictures should have the main part in this post. I hope you enjoy! 

Pictures taken Spring 2015 in Nexø (DK) and Malmö (SE). 

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Social Stratum

Social Stratum is part of a series of playful experiments performed in my Bachelor Thesis Temporary Islands (together with Daniel Petersson). The project seeks a posthumanist performative understanding of the creative process where materiality is not seen as passive, rather as an active participant in the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.

This is an experiment where I seek a different way of living with water. What happens when the materiality of water changes? What stories of the world arise when flowing sea water stabilizes as jelly? What happens in this material-discursive phenomena of water, jelly and me?

Sea jelly is a temporary material. It is in constant and visually visible becomig. It vaporizes, and after a couple of days only a thin layer of jelly is left.

Social Stratum is a result of failure, irritation and cutting. When trying to make a solid piece of jelly, from the bottom of the sea to the surface, the piece got stuck in the mold.  This resulted in irritation and I started to cut out the piece from the mold in order to discard it. In this cutting i also cut the piece in layers, cutting out small cubes of jelly with different amounts of sea bottom particles in it. The irritation was replaced with joy and excitement. Social Stratum is an experiment with the notion of layers, stratum. The sea divides itself in different layers just as we divide our society in different layers, based on gender, class, ethnicity etcetera. But the piece does not intend to legitimize these layers, on the contrary it contest the notion of fixed layers. Although the little pieces of layers is seen as different layers, every layer is entangled. The particles of the sea bottom is a part of the surface and the water of the surface is a part of the sea bottom. This story of layers, stratum arose in the material-discursive practice of making jelly and of cutting.

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Portion

Portion is part of a series of playful experiments performed in my Bachelor Thesis Temporary Islands (together with Daniel Petersson). The project seeks a posthumanist performative understanding of the creative process where materiality is not seen as passive, rather as an active participant in the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.

This is an experiment where I seek a different way of living with water. What happens when the materiality of water changes? What stories of the world arise when flowing sea water stabilizes as jelly? What happens in this material-discursive phenomena of water, jelly and me?

Sea jelly is a temporary material. It is in constant and visually visible becomig. It vaporizes, and after a couple of days only a thin layer of jelly is left.

Portion is drawn on stories about aquaculture (i. e. foodproduction in the sea) and recent studies about how shrimps are affected by the sea. The stories arose in the material-discursive practice of making jelly with sea water. In this process different stories where made intelligible, on of them is ”Portion”. The entanglement of food, everyday life and the sea is present.

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Oceanograph

The Oceanograph is part of a series of playful experiments performed in my Bachelor Thesis Temporary Islands (together with Daniel Petersson). The project seeks a posthumanist performative understanding of the creative process where materiality is not seen as passive, rather as an active participant in the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.

I understand the creative process through Barads agential realism, that is, as an performance of human and non-human actors. Where meaning is negotiated through relations within phenomena.  This process is an ongoing enactment and co-shaping of meaning, boundaries, bodies, and the notion of subject and object.

The Oceanograph is a way of establish a different kind of conversation with the sea. A conversation where the sea as a materiality is nothing but passive, but a living, shaping force. Here the sea holds the pen and I, the human a participant. A pendulum is affected by the seas movements and this creates marks, specific marks for specific times. The marks can be seen as a measurement of the seas movements, as the seas self-portrait, the seas signature or as temporary stories captured on a piece of 20x20 cm paper.

Videos can be found here

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Diffraction Apparatus

Growing up in the archipelag of Karlskrona and Blekinge the sea has always been present. In my younger age as an element to play in, to experience floating and the discovery of an underwater world. When I got older the sea and water served as the roads which carried me and my boat on little adventures. These adventures made me cautios of both the threats and the joy the sea can bring, the tantializing feeling of a boat close to keeling over and the tranquillity of slowly drifting across a waterplane, a calmnes that I believe is hard to find elsewhere.

This work is a result of my relation to the sea meeting with posthumanist notions of the world as a multiplicity, where every action counts where every entitiy is an entanglement of nature-cultural threads in a state of constant change. These perspectives made me encounter the sea once again. It made me stand looking out over the sea thinking about what we can know, that the sea is changing with every intra-action, a host for a vast diversity of life, most of which we have never encountered but possibly endangered. Our western way of living has made the sea an imminent and lethal threat to our civilisation by sea levels rising and flooding cities. At the same time it remains a place for tranquility, play and joy. My work ”Diffraction Apparatus” is an attempt to find a way and tool for thinking about the sea as an multiplicity. It consist of three images, all of which are different and separate but all the same belongs to each other. And like the sea it is in constant waves of becoming.

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Water Surfaces/Ytor 

to be continued... 

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Poems once again!

This is a project where I chose poems I liked from various poets and illustrated them. 

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the Szymborska Project

This is a project where I illustrated the poem Maybe all this by the poet Wislawa Szymborska. I thought that every strophe was a story of its own, so I decided to do individual posters for every strophe displaying the poets different thoughts on our existence throughout the poem.