Lonstockköping

An installation based on the city I spend most of my dreams in, which is a combination of London, Stockholm and Jönköping. Built a cardboard shed,

covered the hole inside of it with a collage map of the three cities, with a piece of paper on the floor, containing a short description of the place. I also

had a pair of headphones inside it, playing a drone based on sound recordings of myself sleeping.

You are now in Lonstockköping. The year is 2006. Occasionally it is 1988. Sometimes it is 1986. And on rare occasions it is 2023. It has even been

2056 ones. The people who live here are a bunch of impulsive, quite random, very rude and slightly sex obsessed characters, with the ability to

transform themselves into other things and other people, and probably against their own will when it happens. Sometimes they just vanish.

Just like that.

Everything in Lonstockköping evolves around a character called Niklas Tafra. Sometimes he is invisible, sometimes he turns into someone else,

sometimes he flies around in the air, sometimes he walks around wearing nothing but a red t-shirt and to say he is monogamous that would be lying.

Most of the time he is only here a few hours at a time. No one in Lonstockköping really knows where he disappears to. What is probably the most

remarkable thing about him though is that every now and then he gains telekinetic powers and have almost perfect control over everything that

happens in Lonstockköping.

In a way Lonstockköping is a bit like any other city, a living organism that constantly changes. But what is so different with this place is the way that it

is changing. Buildings move from one place to another in the glimpse of an eye. Institutions and working places swap location and staff ridiculously fast

and most of the time whilst you are inside them.

Some people would maybe say that Lonstockköping is a distorted version of the real world. But who knows? Maybe it is the other way around.