About Pia Rönicke

Pia Rönicke (born in 1974 in Roskilde) focuses this years last Moderna Museet Projekt on the Stockholm suburb of Bredäng, which was completed in 1964. She has made a film, twenty minutes in length, and an audio installation that deals with this suburb, the atmosphere there when everything was new and how the residents feel about Bredäng today. Pia Rönicke has, together with artist Åsa Sonjasdotter, asked a number of residents of Bredäng how they perceive it, and the title of the piece is consequently “Have you any influence in your housing area ?”

The film version of “Have you any influence in your housing area?” is a compilation of new material by Pia Rönicke and earlier material bought by Sveriges Television. Even though it is based on documentary material, Pia Rönicke’s position as an artist makes the film a documentary-based piece of art rather than a traditional documentary but. She tells her own story about Bredäng instead of repeating those of others. The films emotional qualities are emphasised through the background sound or background music that runs through the entire film. The area’s architecture becomes central in the film since the people being interviewed are not visible on the screen. Pia Rönicke focuses instead on the place and the houses talked about.

“Have you any influence in your housing area?” is also an audio installation that can be listened to at Bredäng’s public library. In the installation the interviews are longer than in the film and while listening to them you look out over the centre of Bredäng. Pia Rönicke has invited artist Åsa Sonjasdotter to make the audio installation.

The piece can be viewed as film at
Kulturhuset, Läsesalongen (3rd floor) between December 6 2001 and January 13 2002. There you can also borrow CD’s with the longer versions of the interviews from the audio installations.

As audio installation at
Bredäng’s public library, Bredäng Centrum between December 6 and December 28 2001. There you can also borrow the film as VHS-tape.