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RITUAL screening Sept. 10 2025 in Providence Rhode Island, USA

Recent screening of the film RITUAL, September 10 at 5 p.m. EDT in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, in conjunction with the opening of ”Shared Magma” at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

The film Ritual is an experimental documentary by Vague Research Studios and a collaboration between Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena Berglin and Maria Magnusson. It explores the greed for energy as a social phenomenon, and employs ritual as an artistic method. The result is a meditative journey of hope and renewal, and a poignant reminder of how consumption is destroying this world. Distribution by Filmform

With support of Kulturbryggan

Film music: Klara Andersson, Graphic Design: Milena Karlsson

RITUAL screening at Öppen Salong Hagabion, Oct 20, Göteborg

From left film makers Maria Magnusson, Lena Berglin, Kajsa G. Eriksson and moderator Beatrice P Garcia

Screening of RITUAL, an experimental documentary on energy greed by Vague Research Studios at Hagabion, Öppen Salong. With an interesting talk moderated by film producer Beatrice P Garcia. Questions to ponder… is RITUAL a time capsule? Will the film be shown in schools in the future? Will ”Data centers” be our municipalities in the future? The event was a collaboration with Folkets bio/Hagabion, ABF-Göteborg and Vague Research Studios. The film RITUAL was funded by Kulturbryggan.

Vague Research Studios visiting RISK(U) & NKFs studio, Sth 16-22 aug 2023

Risk(u) #14: ”The outdoor found inside” was the theme for the open studio and we read Vague Research’s article ”Improvising the Vague Outdoor Event in Art and Technology Education & Research” in Research in Arts and Education, Vol. 2019 No. 2 (2019) Link: https://journal.fi/rae/article/view/118983 The week ended at the amazing place Malongen with the workshop ”Sound, intra-action and the limitations of human experience” More material at NKFs homepage: https://nkfsweden.org/project-name/risku

Fallhöjdens magi (Drop Height Magic), a hybrid art work during summer 2023. 5 site-specific image- and sound artworks installed downstream Kolbäcksån in Västmanland, Sweden.

At each site there is a site-specific image that is painted on brass. In connection with the artwork there is a QR code, which points to the sound piece – a story of about 7 minutes in Swedish. Photo Kajsa G. Eriksson

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”Drop Height Magic”, site-specific hybrid art work, opening 5/5 in Fagersta, Västmanland and here!

For Drop Height Magic (Fallhöjdens magi) a site-specific hybrid art work use qr-code in photo or klick HERE.
Visual art, sound and text by Kajsa G. Eriksson and graphic design by Milena Karlsson.

Väx! An expanded cinema event at 13Festivalen 2023

Väx!-Grow! is a site-specific and participant-based artwork in the tradition of ”expanded cinema”. During the fall of 2022, the artists have collected plants on Konstepidemin´s land. The shapes and chemical structure of the plants have created photographic images directly on film. During 13Festivalen, the film is screened through collective work and as a ritual with the aim of evoking the light during the dark season. The film screening requires people to collaborate in dialogue with material, film, sound, the planet earth and the sun. A prayer that the ground will melt, seeds will sprout and grow again. Maria Magnusson is an artist, photographer and filmmaker who works with non-materialistic existential states of mind and connects to an experimental film tradition. Kajsa G. Eriksson is a visual artist who works site-specifically with myth, play and ritual within an experimental art tradition and is co-running Vague Research Studios.