The exhibition – STRANGE POWERS - explores the highly sensitive nature of complex systems. Larsson brings together a series of works that through poetic, sonic and filmic interventions embrace the powers of small and unruly forces, asking how they can participate in rethinking the politics of space, time, matter and the unknown. Throughout the exhibition, the colour scheme of red and blue make subtle nods to the theoretical framework of the exhibition and its thematic. The red-foiled windows recall the hues of skies affected by air pollution or the poisonous atmospheres caused by wildfires. Copper phthalocyanine is a blue dye found in many household items, but the raw material can also fill a critical need in the quest for a quantum computer as a magnetic quantum metamaterial.

Strange Powers - Prologue is an audio-visual montage that serves as a prelude to a new film-project by Larsson which is circling around quantum computing’s attempts to tame its strange nature, while still exploiting it. By following the complex entanglements of quantum computing technology - from material extraction, toxic tailings and environmental exhaustion - the video builds up a non-linear story full of multiple connections, meanings, and pathways.

Playing with aspects of quantum phenomena such as superposition (of being at two places at the same time), entanglement and interference, Strange Powers - Prologue also extends into the room where it is accompanied by the works Theremins & Drums and Fuzzy Speakers. Similar to the "canary in the coal mine”, or other sentinel species and detecting machines, the two aforementioned works are fragile systems with sensors beyond the human. This gives them both the ability to detect potential dangers, as well as to show us the interconnection between currents, fields, bodies and matter.

The sound installation Theremins & Drums consists of three room sized theremins and an arrangement of interconnected sounding and vibrating metal drums. Invented initially as a gas detector by Leon Theremin around 1917, the theremin was one of the first instruments that produced sounds entirely electronically. Making use of the body’s interference with the electromagnetic field in proximity to the antennas, the instrument is capable of picking up weak, inaudible signals generated by movement from the body and amplifying them so that it can be played as a hearable sound. // Annika Larsson & Marti Manen in conversation at Andrehn-schiptjenko, 18 Nov 2023 // Annika Larsson & Frank Koenen, Amplification of Theremins & Drums (2023) //

E.I The Blob is an interactive “image-organism” sensitive to sound and touch, created to explore new ways of thinking (being, acting) with the Moving Image. // E.I. The blob at “Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings” Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden, 2019 // Annika Larsson & Satch Hoyt: sonic visions of a utopian planet through Sun Ra’s incantation “Its After the End of the World”.

together with E.I The Blob

Performers: E.I The Blob, Annika Larsson (voice) Satch Hoyt (voice, percusssion, flute) Felix Gebhard (electric guitar and synthesizer), Ni Fan (percussion)

at ENCORES – music on recurrence, redundancy and surplus

Teatro Goldoni, Venice, Italy. // E.I. The Blob, Annika Larsson & Satch Hoyt at Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof 25 Nov 2022 // Annika Larsson, E.I. The Blob, Saralunden & Christer Bothén performing at Non-knowledge, Laughter & THe Moving Image Symposium and Festival, Index Foundation, 2022 // Alien Laughter - with Swoopophone and Blob - Annika Larsson / E.I. the Blob / Robin Hayward. Music by Robin Hayward during KANÔN, QANŪN, CANON, (...), KW, Berlin 16 Nov 2021 //

Annika Larsson -Fear of Flying (rough cut) 2019


Shaped as a series of experiments set in four private homes, the film FEAR OF FLYING explores Virtual Reality and its relation to the control and rebellion of moving bodies and minds. In close proximity with four circles of family and friends it investigates the blurred borders and paradoxical feelings of being simultaneously in control and out of control, here and there, moved and moving - states that are triggered by the complex system of interactions that take place between the technology and our bodies, nervous systems and brains. //

AN EXPERIMENT REVISTED (2019)
Montage:Annika Larsson
Footage: Spring Grove Experiment
The Spring Grove Experiment was a series of LSD studies performed from 1963 to 1976 on patients with psychotic illnesses at the Spring Grove Clinic in Catonsville, Maryland. // Prologue - technologies of Laughter (extract) // THE SLEEPOVER EXPERIMENT, Index Foundation 2019 //

Annika Larsson - Dance Macabre (roughcut) 2020

DANSE MACABRE film was shot in London in autumn 2019 during the protests and demonstrations related to Brexit dominated the streets but also in Winter 2020 shortly before the outbreak of Covid-19 radically re-structured the sphere of the public. Both events brought states of exception and a temporary suspensions of law. With a focus on dance and affectual politics, the film takes a closer look on what gestures and bodily expressions are provoked through the current state of crises, but also how order and disorder are inscribed in bodies and movements in public space. Through new friendships, disorder, dark humour, and erratic moving bodies and voices the film explores acts of resistance, the politics of performance, visibility, and queerness in order to to bring up urgent questions around xenophobia, borders, and the politics of fear.

Research, Direction, Cinematography, Montage, Sound and Production: Annika Larsson / Additonal Camera, Sound, & Productions Assistants: Paul Niedermayer, Michel Wagenplatz / Research assistant: Isabel Gatzke / Poetry & Words: Liv Fontaine / Music: Liv Fontaine a.o / Performers: Liv Fontaine, Samir Kennedy, Sue-Gives-a-Fuck, Taylor & Vincent, Haus of Anxiety, Margret Thacther Queen of Soho a.o //

THE DISCOURSE OF THE DRINKERS (2017) is exploring the bar as a social and political space. It borrows its title from a chapter in François Rabelais’ s 16thCentury comic novels on The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. Interested in acts of transgression (identities and borders), the project sets out to explore the political and social potential of the body, its capacity of overturning our habitual course and to change the orderof things (through intoxication, poetry, music, movement, performance and laughter). Filmed in two Berlin bars in the course of six months, the film moves between documentation, fiction, observation, music and dialogue..

Research, Direction, Cinematography, Montage, Sound and Production: Annika Larsson / Research assistant: Lilas Duvernois / Additional Camera: Felix Roadkill, Isabel Gatzke and Carlos A Lopez / Sound and Interviews: Ewa Einhorn and Isabel Gatzke. / Songs and Lyrics: The Real Houswives of Neukölln / Performers and Particpants: Collapsella, Cheryl, Fanny, Viagra Falls, Ida Entity and Marquis de Shade of The Real Houswives of Neukölln, Fabio M Silva, Alex Lee, Jake Indiana, James Doyle, Eliot Gardepe and Ida Entity, Max, Chanter Farmer, Mike Basden, Josip Poljak, Dani, Tehri Nieminen, Ruth Jonsgaard, Tove Jönsson, Syss, Kersti, Ewa Einhorn, Tobias Herzberg, Felix Roadkill, Isabel Gatzke, Leon Lothschütz, Laura Kolehmainen, Markus Jäntti, among other bar-goers at Rote Rose and The Club. // EUROPE - Filmed in Anafi, Greece 2012 during a summit with of a group of international artists, curators, writers, dancers, choreographers and musicians, all responding to the idea of “Arcadia”. “Arcadia” could be defined as a real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity, a momentary liberation from the need for possessions, in the present condition and time of financial and national crisis of Greece. Something that could come out of community, togetherness, sun, sea, beautiful nature, fewer possibilities, simple living, love, humane routine, and states of laughter, trance or intoxication. //

E.I The Blob is an interactive “image-organism” sensitive to sound and touch, created to explore new ways of thinking (being, acting) with the Moving Image. // Annika Larsson -Fear of Flying (rough cut) 2019


Shaped as a series of experiments set in four private homes, the film FEAR OF FLYING explores Virtual Reality and its relation to the control and rebellion of moving bodies and minds. In close proximity with four circles of family and friends it investigates the blurred borders and paradoxical feelings of being simultaneously in control and out of control, here and there, moved and moving - states that are triggered by the complex system of interactions that take place between the technology and our bodies, nervous systems and brains. // Alien Laughter - a concert-lecture
for Swoopophone, Microtonal Tuba, Voice, Noise & Modular Analog Synthesizer, Academic Forum Stockholm 17 May 2022 // THE SLEEPOVER EXPERIMENT, Index Foundation 2019 // Annika Larsson - Dance Macabre (roughcut) 2020

DANSE MACABRE film was shot in London in autumn 2019 during the protests and demonstrations related to Brexit dominated the streets but also in Winter 2020 shortly before the outbreak of Covid-19 radically re-structured the sphere of the public. Both events brought states of exception and a temporary suspensions of law. With a focus on dance and affectual politics, the film takes a closer look on what gestures and bodily expressions are provoked through the current state of crises, but also how order and disorder are inscribed in bodies and movements in public space. Through new friendships, disorder, dark humour, and erratic moving bodies and voices the film explores acts of resistance, the politics of performance, visibility, and queerness in order to to bring up urgent questions around xenophobia, borders, and the politics of fear.

Research, Direction, Cinematography, Montage, Sound and Production: Annika Larsson / Additonal Camera, Sound, & Productions Assistants: Paul Niedermayer, Michel Wagenplatz / Research assistant: Isabel Gatzke / Poetry & Words: Liv Fontaine / Music: Liv Fontaine a.o / Performers: Liv Fontaine, Samir Kennedy, Sue-Gives-a-Fuck, Taylor & Vincent, Haus of Anxiety, Margret Thacther Queen of Soho a.o // Prologue - technologies of Laughter (extract) // THE DISCOURSE OF THE DRINKERS (2017) is exploring the bar as a social and political space. It borrows its title from a chapter in François Rabelais’ s 16thCentury comic novels on The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. Interested in acts of transgression (identities and borders), the project sets out to explore the political and social potential of the body, its capacity of overturning our habitual course and to change the orderof things (through intoxication, poetry, music, movement, performance and laughter). Filmed in two Berlin bars in the course of six months, the film moves between documentation, fiction, observation, music and dialogue..

Research, Direction, Cinematography, Montage, Sound and Production: Annika Larsson / Research assistant: Lilas Duvernois / Additional Camera: Felix Roadkill, Isabel Gatzke and Carlos A Lopez / Sound and Interviews: Ewa Einhorn and Isabel Gatzke. / Songs and Lyrics: The Real Houswives of Neukölln / Performers and Particpants: Collapsella, Cheryl, Fanny, Viagra Falls, Ida Entity and Marquis de Shade of The Real Houswives of Neukölln, Fabio M Silva, Alex Lee, Jake Indiana, James Doyle, Eliot Gardepe and Ida Entity, Max, Chanter Farmer, Mike Basden, Josip Poljak, Dani, Tehri Nieminen, Ruth Jonsgaard, Tove Jönsson, Syss, Kersti, Ewa Einhorn, Tobias Herzberg, Felix Roadkill, Isabel Gatzke, Leon Lothschütz, Laura Kolehmainen, Markus Jäntti, among other bar-goers at Rote Rose and The Club. //