When Hades bursts with blooms
"When Hades bursts with blooms"
is the title of my new film documentary/HD Video triptych, a collaboration
with the Swedish punk icon Stry Terrarie Kanarie, the artist Carin
Carlsson and the poet and writer Clemens Altgård. We will go on a journey
from the beginning of punk, through the post-punk era to this day. What did the
world look like then and what does it look like now?
Simultaneously with the
exhibition "Malmö's Burning" at Moderna Museet Malmö 21 April-10
September 2017, I will show "When Hades bursts with blooms" at
Molekyl Gallery as a single screen. I will also show some other new work that
focus on the same theme.
At Moderna Museet Malmö "
When Hades bursts with blooms " will be synchronized in a video triptych
especially made for the occasion.
On this very personal journey you
will meet people, listen to music, poetry and poems that has had an impact on
me as a person and an artist. A travel through time and space, where I highlight
the late 70s with focus on the 80s and the joint towards the 90s. Where
we were young and angry. Where money was not everything! Where we lived our
lives like every day was the last.
In my new film/video triptych, I
highlight the origin of Swedish punk and post-punk. We get to follow the punk
icon Stry Terrarie Kanarie who will tell us about his musical deeds, his love
and the money.
Stry started the the band
"Kriminella Gitarrer" and probably released the first Swedish punk
record, "Vårdad klädsel/Förbjudna Ljud".
Stry was one of the musicians and
songwriters in Ebba Grön and Rymdimperiet, which later became Imperiet. He also
started his own musical projects and bands such as Besökarna, Garbochock,
Stry & Stripparna, Babylon
Blues, Stry & the OlgaMagoo among others. Stry is one of Sweden’s most
influential musicians and songwriters and has moved and inspired a number of
people with his songs and music from the 70s to today.
Stry & The OlgaMagoo has
currently released a new album Very Last City, which is available on Spotify.
Carin Carlsson is a gifted
painter who will be telling us what it was like as a young person to experience
the energy of punk and it´s literature, it´s meaning for the art and culture in
Malmö. Possibly this was the breeding ground for why Malmö later became such an
interesting art city.
Last but not least, the writer
and poet, the critic and gang leader Clemens Altgård will tell us about
"Malmöligan", a group of poets, where now famous and established
writers such as Kristian Lundberg, Håkan Sandell and Martti Soutkari took part.
The literary group also included
the writer and film director
Lucas Moodysson and Per Linde who
is now doing research and being a lecturer in Interaction Design at Malmö
University. The members of "Malmöligan" were young and very gifted
guys, armed with the written word and literary manifest.
The film/video triptych
illuminates and exposes issues around gender, identity and politics, in a time
influenced by neoliberalism and capitalism, where the burning topic was
humanism versus capitalism, just as it is today. What can we learn from the
time that has passed?
Warm Welcome
Participating photographers in
the film/HD Video triptych:
Monika Norrby, Lars Sundestrand,
Magnus Gustafsson,
Mats Liljegren Anders
Torgander, Anders Påhlson, Hans Aarenstrup, Roger Hynne, Nicklas
Östergren, Örjan Gerhardsson,
Mia Bengtsson Plynning, Mikael
Forth, Henrik Jonsson,
Magnus Christiansson, Bosse
Magnusson, Marianne Andersson, Carin Carlsson,
Birgitta Olsson,
Anna Bring, Tomas Malmqvist,
Erik Wenster, Thomas Johansson, Per-Anders Jörgensen. Paulina Hårleman,
Galleri T.V.
Malvin Louis Enoksen, Clemens
Altgård, Lena Mattsson,
Madeleine Grive, Magnus Af
Geijerstam and Ola Stark among others.
The video-clip from 1988 ”Peel me
a grape” is by Virgil Dejarv also featuring Virgil Dejarv and Lena Mattsson. The video film
”Last Zon Trilogy” from the same year is by Ola Åstrand featuring
himself.
Music: Stry Terrarie
Kanarie
remastered for the documentary film/HD
Video triptych ”When Hades bursts with blooms”:
Besökarna, Garbochock, Babylon
Blues, Ebba Grön, Stry & The OlgaMagoo, Stry &
Stripparna, Blödarna,
Length of the documentary film/HD
Video triptych: 58.30 min.
Text by Lena Mattsson
Translated into English by
Kristin Lidgren
