about

MAGNITUDE is a process based residency, where we dwell into each others knowledges and things we encounter on the island. We believe in a safe and friendly attitude is part of the art scene we share. Interventions weaves across different registers of time - site and draws from fieldwork on the island and embodied relations with nature.  Fieldworks and seminars are jointly done to locate and entangle structures, narrative and forces. Towards forming an experience to continue to build individual projects up on.

For the five artists the starting point is interlocked in 6 quotes (provided by the participating five artists and the curator) and the site(s) specific encounters where the forest meets the sea. The exploration is set to re-synthetize the contested expression "nature nurture”, through artistic discourses. Embarking up on a quest to dissolve nature vs nurture and looking at the two words as a way of forming a sharing and caring environment where the artistic works luminates deep listening and close seeing with a point of departure of the specific area in the Northern Archipelago of Stockholm, Sweden. 

BKN fosters a peer based environment "thinking together, learning together" this takes part during informal sessions and public outreach. Its a resource and public forum to explore and experiment. Proposed project should relate to site-sensitive exploration or specific conditions at BKN.

Jointly we form a transformative, dynamic space for art that engages with life and nature towards critical and poetic explorations, influenced by the immediate surrounding, the forest, lakes, sea and people living in the rural area. 

The following pages have links to each individual artists sites, and the individual works and processes explored during the 6 weeks.