Other eyes on the city

Between 2015-2016, Johansson was involved in the art pedagogical residency Andra ögon på staden (Other Eyes on the City), where she engaged with local environmental and civil rights and disobedience groups in Kungsbacka and outside during more than a year.

As part of the residency Johansson co-organized, together with Charlotta Hanno, a full day seminar about how artistic methods can engage and involve citizens, urban planners and politicians in urban development and was aimed at those who work with urban development processes in the construction industry, public administration, politics or the art world. With invited lecturers such as: Chatharina Gabrielsson, Catharina Thörn, Linnéa Eriksson, Per Hasselberg, Johannes Samuelsson, Lisa Torell, moderated by Lena From.

Johansson also activated Norra Hallands, Europe´s last old lead printing works, and opened it to the public through creating an exhibition space with guided tours held by Friends of the Old printing works and produced a magazine, Kungsbacka Blodbok. The magazine contains texts by Johansson – Camilla Schultz, from Tillsammans för Kungsbacka (Together for Kungsbacka), a platform for local organization of cohesion – Catharina Thörn, associate professor of cultural studies at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg – Frida Sandström, journalist, writer, artist, and educator – Linnéa Eriksson, poet – Catharina Gabrielsson, lecturer in urban planning and associate professor of architecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Maryam Fanni, graphic designer. The magazine also features a conversation between Johansson and Ingegärd Jonsson, Carina Berglund, and Kerstin Ekman about the Tuvan Ekolivs store and the Rädda Tölö Kronopark association.

Eternal scar is another outcome of the residency and is a documentary about the environmental movement and the local groups within the Waste Chain-network (Avfallskedjan) that worked in places around Sweden to oppose future test drilling for nuclear waste storage. The research unravels the stakes invested by a larger national network that dealt with the resistance of nuclear waste disposal issues as an outcome of the referendum in 1981. As a reaction, there was a huge uprising among ordinary citizens to oppose the nuclear industry's search for suitable disposal. In Kynnefjäll, the locals occupied a mountain for as long as 20 years. In the film, we get to follow twenty individuals, scientists and organizations who were active in the resistance movements around nuclear power and waste management in the 80s. The story develops the complex technical, geological, socio-political and economic discourses surrounding the nuclear power issue in Sweden and Japan. The film was made by support by Kungsbacka municipality, Konst i Halland/Hallands Konstmuseum & Region Halland. Eternal scar has been screened at Folkets bio Almedalen by Folkkampanjen mot Kärnkraft-Kärnvapen (2017).

Other associated work about the topic of nuclear resistance is Save Kynnefjäll, where Johansson have worked with diary notes from the protest movement presented as an reenactment at Mossans marknad /Mossutställningar (2017) and in the soloshow Svart Sol at Havremagasinet (2023), Victory can only be achived by guarding and guarding at Gerlesborgsskolans konsthall (2017) where she, together with Karolina Pahlén, organized a roundtable discussion moderated with Henrik Andersson with the directly involved environmentalists from Kynnefjäll and the Waste Chain-network.