LOGISTICS

Where do all the gadgets come from?

The pedometer pictured here was distributed as part of a campaign in Stockholm in 2008. This project is about where the pedometer comes from and how long it took to ship it from the factory to Sweden. By following a typical production chain, the project highlights the global traffic of goods and services on which today’s economy is based.

We went to find out. We made the same journey as the pedometer but in the opposite direction, traveling with the same means of transport that shipped the goods to Sweden. Leaving Stockholm, we traveled by truck, freight train, container ship and truck once again to the factory in China. The journey took 37 days.

Follow us on the journey. Our journey was a road trip in the true sense of the word: we filmed the entire route, non-stop. The film will be shown in its entirety at Kulturhuset in Stockholm in 2012. Here, you can see short video clips, photos and read journal entries from the journey.

Who are we? We’re Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, artists and initiators of LOGISTICS. The project was carried out in collaboration with a number of organizations and companies in the worlds of university, transport and culture.  Funding for the project was provided by Innovativ Kultur foundation and Kulturbryggan. See ‘Collaboration’ for more information.