Rikard Lindell (b. 1973, Sweden)
Gläntan, 2018

Lindell describes “The Glade” as “an interactive post-digital sound and light installation that explores our relation to the forest”. Sensors register audience’s presence and/or movements triggering sounds and lights.

In real life I have only encountered a pilot version of the work in its indoors installation. What I like about it is its interactivity – audience influence formal properties of the work just as the work influences the audience. Also it’s location in a forest (I am keen to find alternative art spaces beyond the gallery circuit). Also shifts in connotations and meaning accrual as the work bleeds from the digital into physical and back. It has pertinence to my ongoing project exploring how sound can claim its territory.