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# Åsa Helena Stjerna

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- [Research](https://www.asastjerna.com/research/) - A Rather Long Manifesto for Artistic Research A central and inseparable part of my artistic practice is my engagement with artistic research. I see it as a sphere in which practice can be tested and challenged, and where the conditions that shape it can be made visible and critically examined. In this way, new artistic
- [News](https://www.asastjerna.com/news/) - News 2027 ARTIST RESIDENCY | IASPIS, THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEE, STOCKHOLM Awarded a six-month residency in 2027 at IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts, in Stockholm 2026 PROJECT FUNDING | KULTURBRYGGAN | THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS COMMITTEEThe project Time of Seaweed | Sonic Co-creation in the Marine
- [About](https://www.asastjerna.com/about/) - About Åsa Stjerna (also spelled Asa Stjerna and Asa Helena Stjerna in international contexts) is a Swedish installation artist who uses sound and listening as her primary modes of artistic exploration. Through her site-specific installations, she investigates the potential of sound to make the embedded conditions and underlying narratives connected to a place perceivable.Through perceptually
- [Works](https://www.asastjerna.com/works/) - Selected works
- [Writings](https://www.asastjerna.com/writings-2/) - TEXTS BY ÅSA STJERNA: Peer-reviewed books and book chapters• Stjerna, Å. (2025, forthcoming). “Sonification as Transversal Practice.”In: Adkins, Monty & Rudi, Jøran (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music. Routledge.In this chapter, I propose sonification as a non-representational, critical practice that challenges conventional ways of interpreting scientific data. Drawing on my
- [CV](https://www.asastjerna.com/cv/) - CV EDUCATIONStudies in Philosophy, (1989 – 1990). Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Academy of Photography, (1994 – 1994). (BA), University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Project Student, (1999 – 2001). Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Studies in Musicology, (1998/2005). (BA), Department of Musicology, Stockholm University. PhD, Artistic research, (2018). Faculty of Fine, Applied and
- [Contact](https://www.asastjerna.com/contact/) - Contact mail: asa[at]asastjerna.sephone: +46 (0)70 730 65 99

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## Portfolios

- [The Well | 2014](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/the-well/) - THE WELL THE WELLPermanent sound installation Hôtel de Marle | Swedish Institute in Paris.Year: 2014 The well brings to life a forgotten part of the site's history and provides an artistic interface between the site's history and its present. The Well is a site-specific sound installation developed for the garden of the Swedish Institute in
- [Suncatcher | 2024](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/suncatchers-2024/) - SUNCATCHER (2024) Real-time, sunlight responsive sound installations developed for three courtyards, Tensta, Sweden. Suncatcher [Solfångare] are three multi-channel, sunlight-re-sponsive sound installations for three courtyards in a residential block in northern Stockholm. Black objects integrated into the building façades emit soft sounds from endangered, common, and imaginary insects. Cicadas, grasshoppers, and unknown flying creatures form a swarm
- [Soundings | 2023](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/soundings-2023/) - SOUNDINGS An artistic exploration of a scientific polar research expedition Critical Sonification as Artistic Research in Marine Sensing Technologies Year: 2023 — ongoing Audiovisual multichannel installationDuration: Two weeks Soundings is an ongoing artistic research work that develops critical sonification to examine how marine sensing technologies (multibeam sonar/bathymetric mapping) produce knowledge about the Arctic. Rather than presenting
- [Lamento | 2024/2006](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/lamento-2006/) - Lamento Installation for a Forest LAMENTO | Installation for a Forest8-channel site-specific sound installation Year: 2024 Lamento—the Italian word for a lament or song of mourning—is a sound work created for a forest. The attentive visitor may hear subdued tones and sounds from eight different pianos, played back through eight loudspeakers placed within the forest.
- [Earth Song | 2019/2021/2022](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/earth-song/) - EARTH SONG A real-time sonification of Earth's seismic activity Photo: Pär Fredin. EARTH SONG | A real-time sonification of Earth's seismic activity 8-channel, site-specific sound installation Year: 2019/2021/2022 Earth Song connects global seismic data to a local tactile listening experience that creates an understanding of relationships unfolding in the present moment, extending beyond what is
- [Mare Balticum | 2015/2016](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/mare-balticum/) - MARE BALTICUMAn artistic exploration of the anthropogenic soundscape of the Baltic Sea MARE BALTICUM | An artistic exploration of the antropogenic soundscape of the Baltic Sea. 12-channel, site-specific sound installation. Year: 2015/2016 Prize: Finalist in German SoundArt Award. Marl, 2016. The big-scale sound installation Mare Balticum is the artistic outcome of the participation in the
- [Sky Brought Down | 2017](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/sky-brought-down/) - SKY BROUGHT DOWN Realtime controlled sonification of the sky SKY BROUGHT DOWN Site-specific sound installation 16-channel, realtime controlled sonification of the sky outside Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.Year: 2017Prize: Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, 2019. Sky Brought Down is an artistic sonification that connects the Sahlgrenska university hospital's outside with the inside and through
- [Klangwäldchen | Kurfürstenstraße](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/klangwaldchen-kurfurstenstrase/) - KLANGWAELDCHEN KURFÜRSTENSTRASSE
- [Klangwaeldchen | 2007](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/klangwaeldchen/) - KLANGWÄLDCHEN | NORDIC EMBASSIES, BERLIN KLANGWÄLDCHEN | NORDIC EMBASSIES
- [Out of the Forest | 2023](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/out-of-the-forest-2023/) - OUT OF THE FOREST Multi-channel installation OUT OF THE FORESTMulti-channel installation Speaker cables, contact speakers, water bowl for dog, tree branches from forests. Sounds from recorded and synthetically generated forests. Year: 2023 Out of the Forest explores how human and more-than-human interaction can converge into an artistic situation. It is an attempt to respond to
- [Salajiegna | 2023](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/salajiegna/) - SÁLAJIEGNA Audiovisual Installation Sálajiegŋa | Audiovisual installation Synchronized hydrophone recordings and timelaps images, wooden reconstruction of Swedish geologist Axel Hambergs historical research station “Tjågnorishyddan”,loudspeakers, speaker cables, film, 6 min loop. Clouds pass by, a sudden mist, the darkness of the night makes it impossible for the camera to register calving events, but below the water’s surface, the
- [The Nature of Water | 2022](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/the-nature-of-water-2022/) - THE NATURE OF WATER Study for a CTM Instrument The Nature of Water 3-channel sound installation Year: 2022 The Nature of Water is an attempt, through a collaboration with a scientific CTD instrument and an infinite number of water molecules, to make the state of the river Norrtäljeån audible. Earth’s water is made up of the same
- [Distancies & Proximities – Slussen | 2012](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/distancies-proximities-slussen/) - DISTANCIES & PROXIMITIES – SLUSSEN Soundwork for 150 windplayers DISTANCIES & PROXIMITIES – SLUSSEN Soundwork for 150 windplayers Year: 2012 Distances & Proximities is a sonic experiment using sonic perception to explore the topography of inner-city Stockholm’s most fragmented area Slussen. Where does Slussen begin? Where does it end, and how do these distances sound? By
- [Songs from the Backside of Society | 2016/2018](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/songs-from-the-backside-of-society/) - SONGS FROM THE BACKSIDE OF SOCIETY Sound piece, variable size. With generous support from KRIS. Kriminellas Revansch i samhället: an organisation which helps former criminals return to society.Year: 2016, 2018, 2019. LINK TO SOUND PIECE "What does the city mean to those who no longer have access to it?" Sånger från samhällets undersida (Songs from the backside of society) is
- [SubAqua | 2009/2011](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/subaqua-2009-2011/) - SUBAQUA Photo: Pär Fredin. SUBAQUA | Site-specific sound installation Hafencity Hamburg, Germany | Aarhus harbour, Denmark | Norrtälje bay, Sweden.Year: 2009/2011 SubAuqa is an artistic exploration of the underwater landscapes of different cities, whose Identity are all closely linked to water. The water mirror surrounding the areas can be considered as part of the public space,
- [Sonic Esplanade & Sonic Promenade | 2009 & 2008](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/sonic-esplanade-sonic-promenade-2009-2008/) - SONIC ESPLANADE (2009) & SONIC PROMENADE (2008) Giving Voice to the Trees SONIC ESPLANADE A 12-channel sound installation for the trees in Västra Esplanaden, Växjö, Sweden. Year: 2009. Sonic Esplanade explores the same theme as several other works under the project title “Giving voice to the trees”. Commissioned by ISCM Sweden as part of the
- [On being a Tree | 2023](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/being-a-tree/) - ON BEING A TREE All Wood was Once Trees Living in a Forest ON BEING A TREE | Multi channel Sound installation Year: 2023 On Being a Tree artistically portrays the relationship between wood and tree and the fact that all the wood we surround ourselves with was once living trees in a forest.The version
- [Pendula Bergiorum | 2007](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/pendula-bergiorum/) - PENDULA BERGIORUMSite-specific sound installation for the Bergius Botanical Gardin, Stockholm PENDULA BERGIORUM Site-specific sound installation for the Bergius Botanical Garden, Stockholm42 contact loudspeakersYear: 2007 Erected inside an octagon shaped museum pavilion made for antique amorphous roots and trunks, the installation Pendula Bergiorum is based on the sounds from two 18th-century clocks once belonging to the
- [Currents | 2011](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/currents/) - CURRENTS 18-channel real-time controlled, site-specific sound installation, Oslo Opera house; Norway CURRENTS Real-time controlled sonification of the North Atlantic Currents.18-channel site-specific installation. Oslo opera house, Norway.Year: 2012 “HOW CAN SOUND, AS ARTISTIC MEDIUM, MEDIATE QUESTIONS OF GLOBAL RELEVANCE?”Currents is the artistic result of a longterm interest and exploration of scientific measurement data from the North-Atlantic
- [The Nature of Water | 2022](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/study-for-a-cdm-vattnets-vasen-2022/) - THE NATURE OF WATERStudy for a CTD instrument The Nature of Water 3-channel sound installation Year: 2022 Earth’s water consists of the same water molecules that have existed since Earth’s beginning. The work The Nature of Water consists of a river’s measurements of temperature, salinity and depth: the three elements that make up the properties
- [Ein Meer aus Herzschlag | 2017](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/ein-meer-aus-herzschlag/) - EIN MEER AUS HERZSCHLAGSite-specific installation with 47 speakers EIN MEER AUS HERZSCHLAG | Site-specific sound installation for St. Petri Friedhof, Braunschweig, Germany. Historical cemetery, 47 hidden loudspeakers, 1000 metres of hidden loudspeaker cable. Year: 2017 Ein Meer aus Herzschlag can only be perceived sonically. Nothing indicates an installation, nothing irritates the site, which is still
- [House Drawings | 2022](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/house-drawings/) - HOUSE DRAWING Site-Specific Sound Performance HOUSE DRAWING Site-specific sound performanceMaterial: wheatmeal. LoudspeakersYear: 2022 House Drawing explores how the future reshapes a place. During the outdoor exhibition Avfart Stockholm – taking place in one of the few still existing abandoned areas in central Stockholm — the future office complex of the site was “drawn” in 1:1 scale as
- [Sala | A Sonic Portrait of Our Present | 2018](https://www.asastjerna.com/portfolios/elementor-5380/) - SALA | A SONIC PORTRAIT OF THE PRESENT Sala—A SONIC PORTRAIT OF THE PRESENT16 channel, site-specific sound installationYear: 2018 Sala-A Sonic Portrait of the Present is the artistic result of a residency at the Aguéeli Museum, Sala and Konstfrämjandet, including the Sala municipal office. Over six months, from early winter to late summer, sonic moments

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