Antimatter
Posted on | augusti 25, 2010 | No Comments
Elsewhereness – Capetown will be screened at Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria BC, Canada. The screening is part of The City Breath Project, which commissioned the piece and curated the shows in Capetown and Grahamstown.
Interferenze in Ducal Castle, Bisaccia
Posted on | juli 5, 2010 | No Comments
Domestic Safari by me and Anders Weberg has been selected for screening at the Interferenze New Arts Festival, Bisaccia, Italy, July 22-25. The festical takes place in the Ducal Castle. Curated by Valentina Tanni.
New Screening of Elsewhereness in Cape Town, 28 & 30 May
Posted on | maj 27, 2010 | No Comments
Elsewhereness: Cape Town in CITY BREATH Festival of Video Poetry and Performance, Cape Town, South Africa.
28 May at 6:15 PM, Labia Cinema on Orange Street. 1h 45mins.
Opens with performance poetry about Cape Town and free popcorn.
Also 30 May at 8:15 PM.
Tickets R 25 at the Labia Box Office.
CITY BREATH. 2009. 01:07:11. DVD. Experimental film selection from South Africa.
Curator / director: Kai Lossgott.
Filmmakers / artists / choreographers / poets: Terry Westby-Nunn, Louise Coetzer, Lolette Smith, Colleen Alborough, João Oreccia, Khanyisile Mbongwa, James Tayler, Niklas Zimmer, Mandilakhe Yengo, Alude Mahali, Ananda Fuchs, Tanya van Schalkwyk, Mduduzi Nyembe, Bandile Gumbi, Maia Grotepass, Mark Wilby, Fabian Oliver Wargau, Nileru, Jeanette Ginslov, Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman, Koeka Stander, Rat Western, Maaike Bakker, Sean Buch, Emma Jane Laurence, Anders Weberg, Robert Willim.
Sweden for Beginners in Copenhagen
Posted on | maj 25, 2010 | No Comments
Here’s a small sample from the premiere of the live-performance Sweden for Beginners at Re-new digital arts festival in Copenhagen.
Blood online
Posted on | maj 9, 2010 | No Comments
The first episode of the TV-series Folklife (Folkliv) is now online (link below). The theme of this first episode is ”blood”.
Folkliv – New TV-series
Posted on | april 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
May 7th a new TV-series by me and Anders Weberg together with ethnologist Mia-Marie Hammarlin and The Folklife Archive in Lund will premiere. Here’s more info in Swedish:
Vad vet vi egentligen om livet i Sverige under bondesamhället? Följ med till gränslandet mellan fantasi och verklighet, när nu bild, ljud och berättelser ur Folklivsarkivet i Lund presenteras på ett nytt sätt.
Fredagen den 7 maj börjar en ny TV-serie producerad av Lunds universitet att sändas av UR i Kunskapskanalen. Serien består av tio avsnitt på sex minuter vardera. Syftet är att gestalta svensk folkkultur och sägner från framförallt 1800- och det tidiga 1900-talet på ett nytt och fantasieggande sätt.
Programmen baseras på arkivmaterial från Folklivsarkivet i Lund. Bilder och musik vävs samman med berättelser om seder och bruk samt mustiga skrönor till en suggestiv audiovisuell blandning.
Projektet har drivits av etnologen och konstnären Robert Willim samt konstnären Anders Weberg, i samarbete med etnologen och speakern Mia-Marie Hammarlin. Arbetet har skett med stor hjälp av arkivarierna Charlotte Hagström och Göran Sjögård samt musikarkivarien Patrik Sandgren på Folklivsarkivet.
Folkliv i Kunskapskanalen
Blod 7 maj 22:50
Gräns 14 maj 22:50
Gäst 21 maj 22:50
Havande 28 maj 22:50
Kraft 6 juni 22:50
Kärlek 11 juni 22:50
Mjölk 18 juni 22:50
Orm 25 juni 22:50
Tänder 2 juli 22:50
Vatten 9 juli 22:50
Conveyors – New Artwork
Posted on | april 20, 2010 | No Comments
The artwork Conveyors by me and Anders Weberg is now finished. It has been part of a project run by The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University and was commissioned by Helsingborgs stad.
”A traffic hub is intended to provide predictable movement and transport. But you never quite know which motions and emotions will occur. So, how to depict or make sense of these kind of sites? In this case the traffic hub is Knutpunkten in Helsingborg, southern Sweden. How could experiences of everyday flow that merge with the unpredictable be illustrated here? How can the kinaesthetic, distributed, fleeting and affective dimensions of city life be evoked? Our approach is to use conveyors as our metaphor.”
Loft Living
Posted on | april 1, 2010 | No Comments
Krautrock Meanderings
Posted on | mars 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
One of the more fascinating things with today’s digital media saturated society is the potential for serendipitous meanderings. Today I embarked on one of these prosaic armchair journeys. The theme of today: Krautrock.
I read a RSS-fed review of a show by the Swedish band This is Head. The reviewer Håkan Engström recurred to the genre krautrock. I listened to the song 0002 by This is Head on Spotify. A really nice tune. I associated to bands like Popol Vuh, and decided to do a search. After some browsing through the list of hits I started to listen to some of the tunes of this German band. Especially the collaborations between Popol Vuh and filmmaker Werner Herzog are fascinating. Soundtracks for films like Aguirre – The Wrath of God and Nosferatu are stunningly beautiful.
So, back to the meanderings. A bit earlier today I got to know that Mika Vainio (former Pan Sonic) should perform together with Ryoji Ikeda at Futureeverything in Manchester. Since I will be in the city, I´ll ty to see the show. I decided to check out a bit of Vainio’s latest works. Back to Spotify, and in the search list, a remix of a Popol Vuh song. Back to Krautrock. Nothing very surprising, but this made krautrock the theme of the day.
These kinds of swift associative meanderings weren’t possible in a pre digital world. But new technology is often quickly domesticated. Complex systems and processes quickly slip into the technological unconscious, becomes epistemic wallpaper to use a term by Nigel Thrift.
Here’s a short Spotify Playlist, a kind of soundtrack for today´s journey.
Here’s a BBC-produced documentary on Krautrock (via Olof):
Krautrock – The Rebirth of Germany (Part I-III).
SfB premiere at Re:New in Copenhagen
Posted on | mars 17, 2010 | No Comments
The audiovisual live performance Sweden for beginners by me and Anders Weberg has been selected for the Re-new Digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen, May 18-22.
This will be the premiere of the project. Scheduled Thursday May 20. 21:45.
