AR-installations in The World Heritage Site
During the spring, artists Lena Trapp, Love Antell, and Kris Pilcher collaborated with local actors to create art that interprets Karlskrona's history, present, and future in digital form. Now you can view the works through the World Heritage Karlskrona app.
The artists have used augmented reality (AR) to create an extra digital layer. The experience of the new digital artworks is blended with the real world. By collecting stories from people and the town of Karlskrona, the artists have shaped their site-specific works.
Kris Pilcher was fascinated by the charged location of Stakholmen, which historically has been a military and closed site, but is now accessible via a footbridge and a popular destination for excursions. Many young people gather here and perhaps have their first kiss. Pilcher's work rises above Stakholmen, a couple united in a kiss entitled “First Kiss.”
Love Antell has worked on a participatory work in which he collected drawings and songs from people connected to the place. A beautiful meeting of expressions that have been brought together in the work “The sirens of the storm surge,” which can be found at the mouth of the railway tunnel at Hoglands Park.
Lena Trapp has delved into archives and mixes archive images of serious sailors with rising sea levels. She intersects maritime history with the climate crisis as a dark undertone. The fascination with the sea that both attracts and frightens. The lighthouse at Stumhomen serves as a backdrop to her site-specific work.
Take part in the week by downloading World Heritage Karlskrona to your mobile phone.
The works can be experienced at the following locations:
- Stumholmen by the lighthouse – “Vessels” by Lena Trapp
- Stakholmen by Scandic – “First Kiss” by Kris Pilcher
- The tunnel at Hoglands Park – "The Siren
Bring your mobile phone and join us on a unique journey through art and technology.
The three AR works are the result of the EU-funded project T.A.B – Tech, Art & Business, in which Karlskrona Municipality is a partner. Konst i Blekinge participated in the jury work in connection with the call for proposals.
Kris Pilcher was fascinated by the charged location of Stakholmen, which historically has been a military and closed site, but is now accessible via a footbridge and a popular destination for excursions. Many young people gather here and perhaps have their first kiss. Pilcher's work rises above Stakholmen, a couple united in a kiss entitled “First Kiss.”
Love Antell has worked on a participatory work in which he collected drawings and songs from people connected to the place. A beautiful meeting of expressions that have been brought together in the work “The sirens of the storm surge,” which can be found at the mouth of the railway tunnel at Hoglands Park.
Lena Trapp has delved into archives and mixes archive images of serious sailors with rising sea levels. She intersects maritime history with the climate crisis as a dark undertone. The fascination with the sea that both attracts and frightens. The lighthouse at Stumhomen serves as a backdrop to her site-specific work.
Take part in the week by downloading World Heritage Karlskrona to your mobile phone.
The works can be experienced at the following locations:
- Stumholmen by the lighthouse – “Vessels” by Lena Trapp
- Stakholmen by Scandic – “First Kiss” by Kris Pilcher
- The tunnel at Hoglands Park – "The Siren
Bring your mobile phone and join us on a unique journey through art and technology.
The three AR works are the result of the EU-funded project T.A.B – Tech, Art & Business, in which Karlskrona Municipality is a partner. Konst i Blekinge participated in the jury work in connection with the call for proposals.