Filmed on 16 mm film and developed with seaweed. 28 min 09 s, loop, aspect ratio 4:3, sound, Kajsa Dahlberg 2023. The installation includes a sculptural element in driftwood (see installation image from Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, 2023. Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

This film was made as part of the doctoral documented artistic research project (doctoral thesis) Tidal Zones – Filming Between Life and Images (2024), carried out at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. The full research can be found here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show-exposition?exposition=2659625

Seaweed Film engages in the cinematic space of the ocean. It considers the historical relationships between seaweed and photography in order to examine the technical intra- activity of human and nonhuman regimes as part of photography itself. Seaweed Film was developed with Bladderwrack, Serrated wrack, Nori, Wrack siphon weed, Sugar kelp, Egg wrack, Oarweed and Tangle, among others. It was recorded and sometimes developed at the following locations: Digermulen, Napp, Svolvær and Kabelvåg in Lofoten; Sørfjorden in Hardanger; Kydalsfossen and Bråstadfossen in Gjøvik; The Bantry Bay in Ireland; The Herbarium at the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim; as well as locations in and around Oslo. The film also includes a filmed fragment from SpongeBob SquarePants and an animation of Eadweard Muybridge’s collotype Two Women Kissing from 1887.