In advance of their world premiere of a new SHAPE+ Platform-supported collaboration, the Swedish and Karelian-Luxembourgish musicians and the Swedish visual artist host an open studio. Visitors are welcome to drop-in on their informal rehearsal to preview the work in its final stages of completion, as well as stay for a chat directly with the artists about their work.

Malmö’s own Prins Emanuel (aka Emanuel Sundin) creates music that flows effortlessly, drawing from soundsystem-optimized dub to bedroom pop and avant-garde experimentation. He delicately navigates this eclectic approach with subtle nuances of rhythm and melody, constructing immersive sonic works while simultaneously operating his labels, Fasaan and Ny Agenda. 

The Helsinki-based Cucina Povera is the solo project of sound artist and composer Maria Rossi, focusing on the marginal and the observational. The repeated motifs in her work are an uncanny testament to the beauty of banality, infused with the mysticism of everyday life and a love for accessible sound sources like creaky tenement floors, boiling kettles and leaky taps – stories told by means of cheap and rudimentary equipment. Like in the titular practice of peasant cooking, Rossi takes simple ingredients and makes a stylistically resourceful, spontaneous hermeticism.

Artist and producer Maja Li Härdelin recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. A common denominator for her interactions with image, object, text, and sound is an interest in the transformation of semantics. In her practice there is no hierarchy between mundane or profane; everything is a possible key to further knowledge.