Ewa Jacobsson
Ewa Jacobsson is a visual artist, composer and sound artist based in Oslo.
Jacobsson has made field recordings since the early 80s and combines electro acoustic composition with visual objects with sound sources. She uses materials as marzipan, electronic waste, things that rot, oil, steel, wire, the acoustics of the actual space and processed sound for ambisonic. Jacobsson´s use of objects and what they might suggest changes the way of listening, and field recordings from 40 years back and until today is used as a hidden index of sound; a library with shadows of time in combination with new recordings and visual objects wiht sound sources and their acoustics.
Her work includes site-specific installations with sound and visual objects with sound sources, photo, drawings, painting, film, also involving musicians. Jacobsson has participated in exhibitions, concert spaces, festivals and in other contexts, including works for public spaces or participatory works. She was a part of the European scene for experimental music and performance and met masters like Ben Patterson, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Eric Andersen, Paul Panhuysen, Joseph Juhasz, Peter Cusack, Kaffe Mathews, John Rose, Irma Optimist.
Jacobsson has studied visual art in Stockholm and at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark, and also classical vocal techniques. She has worked with experimental voice methods, Japanese kototama, text. She studied performative methods at a workshop with Ulay/Abramovic, Grotowski’s technique at Teaterstudion in Stockholm, aikido and Japanese sword Kashima-no-Tachi Kenjutsu in Oslo and in workshops in Wales and Tokyo for Inaba Sensei.
Early on she studied piano for pianist Kerstin Åberg, Uppsala, with emphasis on contemporary music and toured with vocal folk music with masters as Leif Alpsjö and Bosse Larsson (Swedish fiddle nyckelharpa, vocal, violin). (2025)
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