Uncounting Horizons

The work is based on how site creation is produced through geological reports, exploration andthe speculative, but also magical, promises that minerals and metals have been attributed to future profitability. The text material in the video is taken and inspired from several different sources. We have excavated, investigated and collected from reports for geological information and resource data on rare earth mineralisations in Bergslagen. These are produced by various associations as well as exploration assignments by companies. Another source is an exchange of letters from 1813between Berzelius and Johan Gottlieb Gahn about Grängesmalmerna.

The visual material moves between heaven and earth. We have filmed Arne Fredriksson's restorative paintings of the “putti figures” in the auditorium inside Cassel. This is combined with,among other things, micro-images of minerals and metals that have been involved in creating the material reality of the site.

Thanks to the Mineral Museum at Ludvika Gammelgård, Cassel's concert & culture house inGrängesberg and Birgitta Karlestedt.

Uncounting Horizons 2021