CURIOSITY CABINETS 2017-2021
The work is based on the mineral content in the human body (with my own body as a reference) looking at minerals that are extracted from the ground and also found in the human body such as iron, coal, sulphur, magnesium, copper, salt, kalcium etc. The connection is made between the will and eagerness to quantify both in the relation to the monitoring of ones own health and the prestanda or performance of the human body (as in the quantified self and the quantified worker) and the extremely close quantification in the extraction industries. There is also a more existential note to this as well, to look at what unites us with a non-human materiality.
Curiosity Cabinet (molybdenium 9 mg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Mineral Seeds) , 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (boron 10 mg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Imapct Crater) , 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (coal 10,4 kg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Coal Trinity), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (vanadium): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Gislövshammar, Järrestad, Hammenhög, Virrestad, Flagabro, Killeröd, Fågeltofta, Andrarum, Tosterup, Hörby), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (vanadium 25 mg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (The messenger)
Curiosity Cabinet (iron 115 kg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Kiruna), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (copper 2,04 kg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Gällivare), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (zinc 6,3 kg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Boliden), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (silicon, the silicon amount in the human body is not yet quantified): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (mountain crystal generator), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (cobolt 9,6 g, out of 57,6 g pigment): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (pigment blue 28/ Thenards blue), 2019
Curiosity Cabinet (lithium 6 mg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Hanging Equilibrium), 2018
Curiosity Cabinet (coal 10,4 kg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (The Mothers), 2018
Curiosity Cabinet (zinc 3 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (thrown), 2017
Curiosity Cabinet (gold 3,2 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (chewed), 2017
Curiosity Cabinet (kalcium/lime 1200 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (bone stone), 2017
Curiosity Cabinet (natrium/salt 104,4 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (float), 2017
Curiosity Cabinet (iron 6 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (Muonionalusta iron meteorite)
Curiosity Cabinet (magnesium 20 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (flash/beacon)
Curiosity Cabinet (copper 120 mg): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (wire and flakes)
Curiosity Cabinet (sulphur 150 g): You, me, rock, mountain-commodities of the quantified universe (crystallized)