A Clockwork Brunette – Performance of Anna Lundh
22 January
18.00
Top floor
Free entry. No pre-registration required, limited number of seats.
Important! Please arrive on time, the performance starts exactly at the time indicated.
What happens when time gets a voice—and that voice belongs to a woman?
In this new lecture performance, artist Anna Lundh investigates the gendered history of speaking technologies, tracing its connections to time, technology, and the evolving role of the human voice in society. Lundh zeros in on the phenomenon of “Fröken Ur”, the iconic speaking clock telephone service introduced in Sweden in 1934, which was a pioneering technology for providing precise time on demand. “Fröken Ur” also marks a pivotal moment in the automation of the human voice, representing a curious hybrid of woman and machine, analog and digital, past and future.
Blending live elements, archival material, and audiovisual interventions, A Clockwork Brunette examines our relationship with measured time—a collective agreement we rarely question—while venturing into the blurry realm of artificial voices, challenging our assumptions about identity and authenticity, and exploring a future we’re rapidly entering.
A Clockwork Brunette is part of the exhibition Miss Clock (into the groove).
Miss Clock (into the groove)
The exhibition Miss Clock (into the groove) explores time through the lens of digitalization and society, while examining questions of sex and gender in connection with technology—particularly ”speaking technologies.” The work investigates how our relationship to the human voice, and its role as marker of identity and interpersonal trust, is being radically transformed.
Read more about the exhibition here.
About Anna Lundh
Anna Lundh is a visual artist based in Stockholm, and is also a PhD candidate at Konstfack and the Royal Institute of Technology. Lundh’s transdisciplinary artistic practice often reworks and reactivates historical phenomena and artistic visions and manifests in video, sound, installation, web-based works, text, and lecture performance.
Her work has been exhibited in Sweden at venues including the Modern Museum, Bonniers Konsthall, Moderna Malmö, Tensta Konsthall, and the GIBCA biennial, and internationally at institutions such as the New Museum, The Kitchen, and Performa in New York; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA, in Seoul, Korea; as well as in the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.
The project ”Miss Clock” is part of Lundh’s PhD project at Konstfack and the Royal Institute of Technology, which explores themes such as time and temporality, as well as our increasingly complex and entangled relationship with technology.