“The film deals with the relationship between individuals, groups and space/place in a city that is like both an agent and object for change itself (here represented through architecture and through implications in narrative). It will use real spaces of a city architecture and a narrative that seems contemporary in language and that ties in the bodies and the architectural spaces as social and political.

It combines the narrative sense of space from my installations (i.e. Venice Biennial) with the "conventional" poetic narrative strategies from my audio works and later videos. It brings together critical elaborations on social and historical space to themes of boundaries of the body and subjectivity, -the political spaces of architecture and the body.

In order to do this it uses subtle interweavings of experimental narrative and filmic descriptions of place and the relationship between bodies and place.

What is unique in this piece is how it becomes an intersection of all the main strands in my work, and how it builds on my installations (history of place, spaces of crisis and deviation, and my development in the end of the 90's of narrative installations), my audio works (working through conventions of the radio play to more "inventive" forms of audio narrative both in terms of text and in terms of active sound- and noise-scapes), and my videos (the early speech and body driven pieces, the architectural projection pieces, and the later composite monologue driven works).

My work has critical and issue based implications and subtexts, but are strongly experience-based. The issues are at play in the experience of the viewer rather than the other way. In this video work, I have maintained an orientation around the viewer as an experiencing and bodily subject, so prevalent in my installation works.”

(Knut Åsdam)