Hakansson defines himself as an amateur naturalist. His works speak of the relation between man and nature, always with the intervention of technology as the essential core of this dialogue.

Living after Midnight is a video in which he uses a fixed camera to project an image that focuses on a sodium steam lamp which the artist has placed outside at night to film all the bats which are attracted to this light.

This is filmed at the place where in the 1950s Donald B. Griffin carried out some of his final experiments to understand how bats can find their way in the dark.

Waiting and observing are two of the main tools of any naturalist, and by adding the simple gesture of including a point of light in the night, a wonderful exhibition of nature in its pure state can be observed.

The mediation of technology in all this process is hidden subtly because this has become so common and forms such an integral part of our surroundings that sometimes we forget that it is precisely this, artificial technology, which is constantly changing these surroundings.