THE TRIENNIAL OF EXPANDED MEDIA
THE TRIENNIAL OF EXPANDED MEDIA
April 18 – May 13, 2019, Belgrad, Serbia
The Triennial will be held in the Art Pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”
Opening 18 april 2019, 16:00 – 21:00
Truth is in the eye of the beholder by Lena Mattsson, Sweden 2018.
1920 × 1080, HD Video, MPEG-4-film, 01:17 min loop.
Truth is in the eye of the beholder by Lena Mattsson is inspired by Ruth Hubbard’s essay, “Science, Facts and Feminism”, and explores Hubbard’s thesis that the perception of truth is subjective.
Island of Light, Smögen
AN INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART FESTIVAL 12–15 SEPTEMBER 2019 SMÖGEN - BOHUSLÄN - SWEDEN
Coming soon, a new film and light installation by Lena Mattsson on the island Smögen
During Island of Light, the unique rock formations, the famous pier and the narrow streets of Smögen, as well as the skies and the sea will form the backdrop for interactive light art, light installations and light projections of monumental proportions. You will also have the opportunity to enjoy this art experience from guided boat tours on the sea.
Malmö City
New music video directed and edited by Lena Mattsson
with the punk icon Stry Terrarie Kanarie
In the Shadow of Truth
Lena Mattsson’s film projection In the Shadow of Truth with Bo Cavefors
Film installation view Malmö Konsthall, Mellanrummet 2018.
https://www.konsthall.malmo.se/en/utstallning/bo-cavefors-forlag-en-granslos-historia-om-bildning/
https://www.konsthall.malmo.se/en/utstallning/bo-cavefors-forlag-en-granslos-historia-om-bildning/
Welcome to Malmö Konsthall, Saturday 8 December 2018, 3 pm
FILM SCREENING: Two films about Bo Cavefors by Lena Mattsson
Saturday 8 December, 3 pm
C-salen, Malmö Konsthall
The artist Lena Mattsson has documented and filmed Bo Cavefors for many years. Now will two film versions of these works be shown:
I betraktarens öga (In the Eye of the Beholder) from 2014 and
Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) from 2015.
I betraktarens öga (In the Eye of the Beholder) from 2014 and
Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) from 2015.
Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych
I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet Malmö. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors.
The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist.
I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet Malmö. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors.
The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist.
In the film Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) Lena Mattsson focuses the camera on questions about censorship; censorship is something both she and Bo Cavefors have been exposed to. She illustrates in an artistic and poetic way, the right to express oneself in words and images. The film has English subtitles and is 34:20 minutes long.
The music is composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist and Andi Almqvist.
The music is composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist and Andi Almqvist.
Lena Mattsson gives a short introduction to the films. Don’t miss the exhibition Bo Cavefors förlag – an unbounded story of culture in Mellanrummet.
Free, but limited number of seats.
Image: Bo Cavefors. Film still from The Cultural Masturbator by Lena Mattsson, 2015
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I betraktarens öga
Bo Cavefors – mer konstnär än affärsman
Den kulturella onanisten var en kameleont. Malmö konsthalls utställning om Bo Cavefors visar att han var mer än en förläggare, Skriver Dan Jönsson.
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-11-22/bo-cavefors-mer-konstnar-an-affarsman?fbclid=IwAR3GHxKWIwgJWAd6rBDyz3HuXWbZ-KdmbPnXRRJf43brVu9RRJC9n4I8PAU
https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-11-22/bo-cavefors-mer-konstnar-an-affarsman?fbclid=IwAR3GHxKWIwgJWAd6rBDyz3HuXWbZ-KdmbPnXRRJf43brVu9RRJC9n4I8PAU
FILM SCREENING: Two films about Bo Cavefors by Lena Mattsson
FILM SCREENING: Two films about Bo Cavefors by Lena Mattsson
Saturday 8 December 2018, 3 pm
C-salen, Malmö Konsthall
The artist Lena Mattsson has documented and filmed Bo Cavefors for many years.
Now will two film versions of these works be shown: I betraktarens öga
(In the Eye of the Beholder) from 2014 and Den kulturelle onanisten
(The Cultural Masturbator) from 2015.
Now will two film versions of these works be shown: I betraktarens öga
(In the Eye of the Beholder) from 2014 and Den kulturelle onanisten
(The Cultural Masturbator) from 2015.
Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014
at Moderna Museet Malmö. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed
light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film
has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed
by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
at Moderna Museet Malmö. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed
light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film
has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed
by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
In the film Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) Lena Mattsson focuses
the camera on questions about censorship; censorship is something both she and
Bo Cavefors have been exposed to. She illustrates in an artistic and poetic way,
the right to express oneself in words and images. The film is 34:20 minutes long.
the camera on questions about censorship; censorship is something both she and
Bo Cavefors have been exposed to. She illustrates in an artistic and poetic way,
the right to express oneself in words and images. The film is 34:20 minutes long.
Lena Mattsson gives a short introduction to the films. Don’t miss the exhibition
Bo Cavefors förlag – an unbounded story of culture in Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall.
Bo Cavefors förlag – an unbounded story of culture in Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall.
Image: Bo Cavefors. Film still from The Cultural Masturbator by Lena Mattsson, 2015
Bo Cavefors förlag – A Boundless History of Culture
In the Shadow of Truth by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors
Installation view Malmö Konsthall, Mellanrummet
15.11 – 9.12 2018
Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall
Bo Cavefors founded his publishing firm in 1959 in Lund at the young age of 23. His selection of works to publish was very progressive, and over a 20-year period over 620 titles were published in a number of different genres. Among other things, he allowed artists to create books as they wished, opened up his publishing house to new African literature, and launched a paperback series, BOC-serien, for contemporary philosophy and topical social issues. The African series had covers by CO Hultén, and Cavefors soon also published books on art. Mats B., Torsten Weimarck and Ragnar von Holten are just a few of the writers.
Cavefors continually experimented with format – it could be quickly produced and small but also expensively done. He always deviated from the era’s main highways, not just in terms of form and design but also in terms of the ideas in his books. His catalogue contained names like Ernst Jünger, Karl Marx, Lautréamont, Roland Barthes and Per Engdahl. Cavefors knew no limits to what was permitted to be said and printed. His regular catalogue was often more than an ordinary advertising brochure and more like an artistic fanzine, not least thanks to Carsten Regild’s black lightbulb, which became something of an unofficial logo for the firm.
As a tribute to Cavefors’ fantastic contribution as a publisher, Malmö Konsthall now presents a selection of his firm’s books. The selection and presentation are done by author and art critic Thomas Millroth, who was also a close friend of Bo Cavefors.
Lena Mattsson’s film projection In the Shadow of Truth from 2017, which is a collaboration between the author and the multi-talented Cavefors, is being shown as a complement to the publishing firm’s books and other printed materials. Lena Mattsson has artistically documented and filmed Bo Cavefors for many years. On Saturday 8 December at 3 pm her film versions of two of these works will be shown: I betraktarens öga (In the Eye of the Beholder) (2014) and Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) (2015), in C-salen.
OPENING Wednesday 14.11 5–9 pm:
6 pm
The video film I betraktarens öga by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors will be shown as a re-edited single-screen documentary film version. Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
The video film I betraktarens öga by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors will be shown as a re-edited single-screen documentary film version. Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
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Conversation about Bo Cavefors förlag with Lena Mattsson, artist, Måns Holst-Ekström, author and art critic, and Thomas Millroth, author and art critic. Moderator: Per Engström, Malmö Konsthall Bookshop. C-salen.
Conversation about Bo Cavefors förlag with Lena Mattsson, artist, Måns Holst-Ekström, author and art critic, and Thomas Millroth, author and art critic. Moderator: Per Engström, Malmö Konsthall Bookshop. C-salen.
Bo Cavefors förlag – A Boundless History of Culture 15.11 – 9.12 2018, Malmö Konsthall
In the Eye of the Beholder by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors
Bo Cavefors förlag – A Boundless History of Culture
15.11 – 9.12 2018
Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall
Bo Cavefors founded his publishing firm in 1959 in Lund at the young age of 23. His selection of works to publish was very progressive, and over a 20-year period over 620 titles were published in a number of different genres. Among other things, he allowed artists to create books as they wished, opened up his publishing house to new African literature, and launched a paperback series, BOC-serien, for contemporary philosophy and topical social issues. The African series had covers by CO Hultén, and Cavefors soon also published books on art. Mats B., Torsten Weimarck and Ragnar von Holten are just a few of the writers.
Cavefors continually experimented with format – it could be quickly produced and small but also expensively done. He always deviated from the era’s main highways, not just in terms of form and design but also in terms of the ideas in his books. His catalogue contained names like Ernst Jünger, Karl Marx, Lautréamont, Roland Barthes and Per Engdahl. Cavefors knew no limits to what was permitted to be said and printed. His regular catalogue was often more than an ordinary advertising brochure and more like an artistic fanzine, not least thanks to Carsten Regild’s black lightbulb, which became something of an unofficial logo for the firm.
As a tribute to Cavefors’ fantastic contribution as a publisher, Malmö Konsthall now presents a selection of his firm’s books. The selection and presentation are done by author and art critic Thomas Millroth, who was also a close friend of Bo Cavefors.
Lena Mattsson’s film projection In the Shadow of Truth from 2017, which is a collaboration between the author and the multi-talented Cavefors, is being shown as a complement to the publishing firm’s books and other printed materials. Lena Mattsson has artistically documented and filmed Bo Cavefors for many years. On Saturday 8 December at 3 pm her film versions of two of these works will be shown: I betraktarens öga (In the Eye of the Beholder) (2014) and Den kulturelle onanisten (The Cultural Masturbator) (2015), in C-salen.
OPENING Wednesday 14.11 5–9 pm:
6 pm
The video film I betraktarens öga by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors will be shown as a re-edited single-screen documentary film version. Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
The video film I betraktarens öga by Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors will be shown as a re-edited single-screen documentary film version. Lena Mattsson’s synchronised video triptych I betraktarens öga was shown in 2014 at Moderna Museet. Both the video triptych and the documentary film shed light on the life and times of the myth, man and human being Bo Cavefors. The film has English subtitles and is 35:29 minutes long. The music was specially composed by Conny C-A Malmqvist. C-salen.
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Conversation about Bo Cavefors förlag with Lena Mattsson, artist, Måns Holst-Ekström, author and art critic, and Thomas Millroth, author and art critic. Moderator: Per Engström, Malmö Konsthall Bookshop. C-salen.
Conversation about Bo Cavefors förlag with Lena Mattsson, artist, Måns Holst-Ekström, author and art critic, and Thomas Millroth, author and art critic. Moderator: Per Engström, Malmö Konsthall Bookshop. C-salen.
TIPS Don’t miss Friday 16 November:
MED SVARTA FANOR: Requiem för Bo Cavefors
(WITH BLACK BANNERS: Requiem for Bo Cavefors)
Participants: Mårten Björk, Leif Holmstrand & Lena Mattsson
Östervärns Antikvariet & Bokhandel – ANTI (Höstgatan 37)
MED SVARTA FANOR: Requiem för Bo Cavefors
(WITH BLACK BANNERS: Requiem for Bo Cavefors)
Participants: Mårten Björk, Leif Holmstrand & Lena Mattsson
Östervärns Antikvariet & Bokhandel – ANTI (Höstgatan 37)
Bo Cavefors förlag – A Boundless History of Culture 15.11 – 9.12 2018 Mellanrummet Malmö Konsthall
Bo Cavefors förlag – A Boundless History of Culture
15.11 – 9.12 2018
Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall
OPENING Wednesday 14.11, 5–9 pm
https://www.konsthall.malmo.se/utstallning/bo-cavefors-forlag-en-granslos-historia-om-bildning/
https://www.konsthall.malmo.se/utstallning/bo-cavefors-forlag-en-granslos-historia-om-bildning/
Rest in peace Bo Cavefors!
In the Eye of The Beholder film #3
By Lena Mattsson with Bo Cavefors
Cavefors bortgång en enorm förlust
Clemens Altgård
SKÅNSKA DAGBLADET
https://www.skd.se/2018/10/16/cavefors-bortgang-en-enorm-forlust/
Websites by Lena Mattsson
Video still from "When Hades bursts with blooms" by Lena Mattsson
https://www.lenamattsson.tv
https://www.lenamattsson.net
Bo Cavefors – den nakne förläggaren
Radioessä om Bo Cavefors OBS i P1 av Tor Billgren
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/1105708?programid=503
PÅANNONS
Bo Cavefors är en av Sveriges mest kontroversiella och mytomspunna förläggare. 1959-1982 drev han sitt förlag från Malmö och Lund och gav ut över 600 titlar.
Tor Billgren reflekterar i dagens essä över denna bokutgivning utifrån en avhandling om förlaget, men också Cavefors samarbeten med olika konstnärer.
E S S Ä
”RAF: texter”, som publicerades på Bo Cavefors förlag i oktober 1977 måste vara en av bokhistoriens mest vältajmade utgivningar. Det är en 520-sidig antologi med texter av aktivister inom den västtyska terrorgruppen Röda Arméfraktionen, RAF.
Cavefors berättar om publiceringen i Malmökonstnären Lena Mattssons filminstallation ”I betraktarens öga”, som visades på Moderna Museet i Malmö 2014. Förutom den svenska boken, gav han också ut en utgåva på tyska, eftersom inget tyskt förlag vågade göra det. För att böckerna inte skulle fastna i tullen, fabricerade han ett fejkomslag: ”Kärlek med förhinder” stod det på framsidan av ett stort antal av de tyska böckerna.
Det som gör boken så vältajmad, är att det var just i oktober 1977, som palestinska PFLP kapade ett Lufthansaplan med kravet att ett antal fängslade RAF-ledare skulle friges.
I fem dagar irrade planet runt i Mellanöstern med fem besättningsmedlemmar och 86 passagerare som gisslan, sju av dem barn. Tidigt på morgonen den 17 oktober kunde planet slutligen landa i Mogadishu, Somalia. Det stormades av tysk specialpolis, och gisslan fritogs.
Följande morgon hittades RAF:s fängslade ledare, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin och Jan-Carl Raspe döda i sina fängelseceller i vad som förmodligen var ett koordinerat självmord.
I samma veva lägger alltså Bo Cavefors ”RAF: texter” på bokhandelsdiskarna.
Det var förstås också en mycket kontroversiell utgivning. RAF hade vid det laget mördat 16 personer i sina olika aktioner, varav två i Stockholm under ockupationen av Västtyska ambassaden 1975.
Och våren 1977 hade SÄPO slagit till mot en RAF-trogen terrorcell i Sverige som planerade att kidnappa före detta ministern Anna-Greta Leijon i utpressningssyfte. Så hösten 1977 visste alla vad RAF var. Bo Cavefors hade en särskild näsa för det som låg i tiden.
Han startade sitt bokförlag 1959, men det är först 2018 som historien om förlaget berättas utförligt i bokform. Det är bokhistorikern Ragni Svensson som gör det i sin doktorsavhandling ”Cavefors –Förlagsprofil och mediala mytbilder i det svenska litteratursamhället 1959–1982”.
Första året gav den då 27-årige förläggaren ut nio titlar från sitt föräldrahem i Limhamn, bland annat ”Sju algeriska studenters vittnesmål om tortyren i Frankrike” och tre böcker av den mycket kontroversielle poeten Ezra Pound.
Stig Claesson sökte sig tidigt till förlaget, liksom en ung Lars Norén. Honom refuserade dock Cavefors, tre gånger på tre år.
Förlaget fick snabbt en vänsterpolitisk profil. Ragni Svensson noterar att utgivningen kom att ”spegla eller rentav föregå den väg som den svenska vänsterrörelsen kom att ta framåt slutet av 1960-talet”.
Cavefors gav ut Mao Tse-tung, Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, Marx, Stalin, Lenin och Nordkoreas diktator Kim Il Sung.
Det kom tjogtals med titlar som ”En socialistisk kultursyn”, ”Marxismens politiska ekonomi” och ”Kulturrevolutionen vid Kinas universitet”.
Han introducerade tänkare och filosofer som Roland Barthes och Michel Foucault. Peter Weiss knöts tidigt till förlaget, och 1975 gav Cavefors ut den nigerianske författaren Wole Soyinka, 11 år innan han fick Nobelpriset.
Det är inte dåligt för vad som länge var ett enmansförlag. Men Cavefors hade starka drivkrafter, både politiska och litterära. I Lena Mattssons intervjufilm kallar han sig ”kulturell onanist”.
Vill man få en överblick över vidden av utgivningen kan man ta till en annan bok från 2018: ”BOC – en bok om Bo Cavefors Bokförlag”, som innehåller en komplett bibliografi.
De Caveforsböcker som jag själv har starkast kontakt med är Salvador Dalís självbiografi, som tidigt väckte mitt intresse för konst. En annan är William Burroughs ”Den nakna lunchen”, som Cavefors tog till Sverige 1978. Jag hittade den på en loppmarknad i Simrishamn 1996 och läste den på ett kvavt tåg samma sommar som jag skulle rycka in i Flottan. Boken var osprättad, så jag satt med min morakniv och skar. Sida efter sida sköljde bokens febriga och erotiska hallucinationer över mig.
Förlaget gick under i det som kom att kallas Caveforsaffären; en stormig process som spelades upp kring 1980. Bo Cavefors hade vunnit en upphandling från Kulturrådet om att ge ut Strindbergs samlade verk i ny utgåva. Men mitt under förberedelsearbetet drogs beslutet tillbaka.
Officiellt på grund av brister i upphandlingsförfarandet, men i den debatt som följde menade Cavefors försvarare inom kulturvärlden att det var hans kontroversiella utgivning som var det egentliga skälet. Han var för obekväm, för besvärlig.
Snart kom också anklagelser om ekonomisk brottslighet. Han satt häktad i polishuset i Lund i nio dagar, men frikändes sedan på 10 av 11 åtalspunkter. Förlaget gick i konkurs och i början av 1981 såldes det enorma boklagret i en legendarisk utförsäljning. Det är förmodligen från denna som min osprättade Burroughsbok härstammar.
Att läsa om Bo Cavefors skapar funderingar om intellektuell takhöjd och diskussionsklimat nu och då. Hade utgivningarna av t.ex. Ezra Pound, Stalin och den svenske fascistledaren Per Engdahl, vars memoarer Cavefors gav ut 1979, kunnat stå emot dagens sociala medierdrev och polariserade åsiktsjournalistik?
Hade ett etablerat förlag idag kunnat ge ut visdomsord från Islamiska Statens teologer, eller Anders Behring Breiviks manifest?
Bo Cavefors har motiverat utgivningen av RAF-boken med att det rörde sig om ”viktiga dokument för den tiden”.
Att publicera något måste inte betyda att man ställer sig bakom det. Det finns en historisk och vetenskaplig poäng med att tillgängliggöra material för den tänkande allmänheten, även av kontroversiell, oetisk och korkad natur.
Efter tiden med förlaget har Bo Cavefors i hög grad fortsatt med sin kulturella onani. Han har skrivit böcker och gett ut tidskrifter, men också samarbetat med olika konstnärer. I Lena Mattssons installation som visades på Moderna i Malmö, ingår förutom intervjufilmen, bland annat också en liten projektion av en naken Cavefors från en pjäs som han satte upp i Malmö 2005.
Den här nakenheten återkommer i flera konstnärliga samarbeten, till exempel med Martin Bladh på Fylkingen i Stockholm 2009, och med Leif Holmstrand. Boken ”Ett rum på tredje våningen” består av textflöde och bilder, där en åldrad Cavefors poserar i olika sexuella situationer, inte sällan insnärjd i Holmstrands virkade girlanger.
Kanske är den här nakenheten exhibitionism, precis som det kan vara exhibitionism att ge ut böcker: att torgföra sina åsikter och posera med vad man tycker är viktigt.
Kanske är nakenheten provokation, precis som det kan vara provokation att ge ut Stalin eller ett tjockt manifest med ”grötiga terroristtankar och livsfarlig våldsromantik”, som en av recensenterna beskrev RAF-boken.
Men det är ett ytligt sätt att se på saken. Jag ser snarare nakenheten som ett verktyg för att ifrågasätta kroppsideal och avslöja fördomar, precis som utmanande bokpubliceringar kan avslöja inskränkthet och en subjektiv och godtycklig syn på yttrandefrihet.
För 40-50 år sedan yttrade sig denna inskränkthet genom upprop om moralisk resning, idag genom krav på trygga rum och triggervarningar.
Ett samhälle behöver sina obekväma och besvärliga personer. Det är de som lockar den indignerade flocken att demonstrera var toleransens gränser går.
AVANNONS
Tor Billgren stod för dagens essä.
L i t t e r a t u r
Ragni Svensson: ”Cavefors – förlagsprofil och mytbilder i det svenska litteratursamhället 1959-1982” (Ellerströms, 2018)
Jonas Ellerström, Ragni Svensson, m.fl:”BOC – en bok om Bo Cavefors Bokförlag” (Tragus Förlag)
Leif Holmstrand & Bo Cavefors: ”Ett rum på tredje våningen” (Holmstrand Böcker, 2015)
Martin Bladh & Bo I. Cavefors: ”Qualis artifex perero” (Styx, 2013)
F i l m e r
Lena Mattsson: ”In the eye of the beholder”
Lena Mattsson: ”Den kulturelle onanisten”
”When Hades bursts with blooms" by Lena Mattsson with
Stry Terrarie Kanarie, Carin Carlsson, Clemens Altgård. Film screening at Cinema Panora Malmö. Photo: Carin Carlsson
Stry Terrarie Kanarie, Carin Carlsson, Clemens Altgård. Film screening at Cinema Panora Malmö. Photo: Carin Carlsson
"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. Upcoming screening att cinema Panora Malmö 21 December 19.30, 2017.
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?
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.
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. Upcoming screening att cinema Panora Malmö 21 December 19.30, 2017.
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?
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
Recension filmtidskriften FLM av Lars Gustaf Andersson
Recension filmtidskriften FLM av Lars Gustaf Andersson
Recension Kvp Expressen av Conny C-A Malmqvist
http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/kultur/nar-malmo-brann-av-konst-och-punk/
Recension Sydsvenskan av Thomas Millroth
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2017-04-22/malmo-brinner-visar-upp-stadens-kulturella-identitet
Recension DN av Dan Jönsson
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/malmo-brinner-pa-moderna-museet-i-malmo/
Recension kunstkritikk av Bengt Adler
Recension Ystad Allehanda och Kristianstadsbladet av Carolina Söderholm
http://www.ystadsallehanda.se/kultur/moderna-malmo-malmo-brinner/http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/kultur/moderna-malmo-malmo-brinner/
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