Parasites, Influences and Tranformations /Parasitic Electronic Seance

(audio and video installation, 1998-2000)

Parasites, influences and tranformations

Nervousness. Allergy. Dependence. A hypersensitive environment transforms the image to a reactive system which parasites on itıs surroundings, circumstances, observer. The image behaves like a instable network, a mutating virus, a overloaded nervous system. An image which literally is dependent and has lost itıs sovereign inaccesibility. Sensor, computer, projector are a system which reacts, records and represents a situation(changes in the environment, the observers activity, information from Internet, communication with other art works, feeedback on the systems own transformations). The images are narrations, dreams, hallucinations, events which ramifies, disseminate and transforms.

Peter Hagdahl

Parasitic Electronic Seance IV

Carl made his thing clear when he stuck his finger into the dead body, jerked it around a bit, removed it and sucked on it. - This is one way to tap into the unknown, he said, That's what you want, isn't it? Fifteen years ago his dreams disappeared. Everything went black and stayed black. The only thing he could do at the moment was to use physical contact and electricity. - I know there's something out there. Why do I have to prove it to you? Why not? He now used the wires that was attached to his ears, plugged them into the main electricity circuits and got loaded. This was a technique he had learned on a holiday in Iceland. Was there any results? Why did he keep on doing these experiments; experiments that looked like hermetically ended pieces. The answer sounded promising: - Even the most perfected world continues to draw pictures of unstable matters, even the finest feather produces a variation of frequences unlistenable to 95 % of mankind. Carl's finger plunged deeper into the body. Deeper and deeper ...

CM von Hausswolff

Photograhs for the New Library in Linkoping, Sweden These 2 photos hangs in the new libray in Linkoping. Each one contains one word of a swedish author. The four writers are Selma Lagerlof, Karin Boje, Gunnar Ekelof and Goran Sonnevi. The word is run through an 'oscilloscope, filmed and photogrphed. Now it contains the word, the sound of the word and the picture of the sound of the word.
Operation Of Spirit Communication (Basic Minimalism Seance) (sound installation with electronics, 1998-2000) is proposing communication with other worlds. This installation uses former and self-developed techniques for the detection of strange phenomena within the electrical and radio communicative areas. Microphones picks up the noise of electricity (50 Hz in Europe - 60 Hz in the US), specific combinations of sinewave tones are transmissioned and recieved and cameras pick up odd behaviour in the electric world. The transmission unit have been located in one place and the reciever in another. The electrical equipment may also be seen as sculptoral objects. These combinations of systems have been showed at Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm; in Medialization (Stockholm and Tallinn), cuarted by Josef Backstein; in The Quickening (Banja Luka, Bosnia) curated by Sasha Karalic; in 3rd International Biennial (Santa Fé) and in EV+A (Limerick, Ireland). Photgraphs shows the sending unit in Santa Fe and the recieving unit in Limerick.
Red Pool (light installation, 1999) was a light-installation produced in Bangkok, Thailand, for Cities On The Move VI, curated by, amongst others, Thomas Nordanstad, in fall 1999.It consisted of deep red underwater spotlights and red light tubes, turning the swimmigpool area of Reno Hotel red.
Red Night (light installation, 1999) was a light-installation produced in Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA, for the 3rd International biennial, curated by Rosa Martines, in summer 1999. It consisted of 11 outdoor spotlights producing 11 000 watts of deep red light flooding the Our Lady of Guadaloupe cemetary in night time like a red monocrome painting.

Liljevalchs september 2000