EXQUISITE CODE
EXQUISITE CODE
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Paper for the conference ”HOLY FACE – FACE OF GOD, FACE OF MAN”
CAROLINE LEVISSE
The Sudarium of St Veronica by Leif Elggren together with Claude Mellan, 2007
The Acoustic Dimension of the Holy Face
Paper and lecture for the conference ”Holy Face – face of God, face of Man”
[Sainte Face – visage de Dieu, visage de l’homme dans l’art contemporain. 19ème-20ème siècle”],
Paris, INHA, 2009, Nov. 30 – Dec 1; organized by P.-L. Rinuy (Université Paris 8) et I. Saint-Martin (EPHE)
PHYSIOLOGICAL FREQUENCIES
Solo exhibition by Leif Elggren at Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Sweden, 16.1. – 27.2.10
Solo exhibition by Leif Elggren at Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm 3.12.09 – 7.1.10
more info here
TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET (HEMLIGSTÄMPLAT)
with Leif Elggren and Thomas Liljenberg will now be released.
TOP SECRET (HEMLIGSTÄMPLAT)
is a new box on satumaa*kustantamo in collaboration with the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
The release will take place at the Moderna Museet at a top secret point of time on December 20th, 2009.
Curated by Marja-leena Sillanpää
www.myspace.com/marjaleenasillanpaa
www.myspace.com/satumaakustantamo
SKULL DEFEKTS & THE SONS OF GOD
BELOW THE RADAR 02
This CD compilation © 2009 The Wire thewire.co.uk
Skull Defekts & The Sons Of God
“Received & Transmitted” (Previously unreleased)
Recorded by Joachim Nordwall, Kent Tankred, Henrik Rylander and Leif Elggren
in Gothenburg 2008 at Studio Dental, which is located in the city’s Sahlgrenska hospital. The piece will eventually be released on LP on Important Records, while a second piece recorded at the same session will be released on CD by Utech Records in January 2010.
More information here
Sons of God Live in USA | November 2009
THE SONS OF GOD and Joachim Nordwall + Gen Ken Montgomery
in Boston 6/11, New York 8/11 and Philadelphia 9/11
www.nonevent.org/
phillysoundforum.org/
Photo: Conny Fornbäck
Leif Elggren | Live in London 19th & 20th November
The Tapeworm, England's new cassette-only label, is pleased to announce Leif Elggren will be performing "Life of the Plants" at The Night of the Long Worms at Café Oto, London, on 19.xi.09
More information can be found here
and the next day Leif Elggren, presented by Sound Threshold, performs in celebration of the DVD release of Death Travels Backwards (Errant Bodies Records)
Performances
with
Leif Elggren
Brandon LaBelle
Friday, November 20th, 6:30pm
The Showroom, London
63 Penfold Street
www.theshowroom.org/
and you can read a full press release here
Recent Live Events, Projects & Activities
COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
Brighton's fourth annual festival
30th of October - 1st of November 2009
Three days of unstructured, experimental sound and art drawn from an international subculture of musicians, artists and filmmakers.
A LECTURE ENGULFED : MUSSEL, MUSE, MEDUSA
Jean-Philippe Antoine, Leif Elggren
Centre Pompidou, Paris
PETITE SALLE
MONDAY 26 OCTOBER, 7 PM
"(Moule, muse, méduse)2" pays tribute to Marcel Broodthaers (1921-1976) on the 33rd anniversary of his death. Jean-Philippe Antoine and Leif Elggren start out from the gesture whereby, in 1964, the Belgian poet sold out to the plastic arts by turning into a Pop artist, and reinstated the Mallarméan genealogy: the Throw of the Dice inventing “the modern and contemporary space of art”, versus a kitsch glorification of the song hailing from Romanticism. But this exercise in demystification through space, relentlessly subject to the bourgeois commodification that it was meant to counter, continues to be inhabited by invisible Muses and Sirens. Broodthaers strove to reinstate their presence, through novel “literary” methods borrowed from Nerval, Baudelaire, Banville, Mallarmé, and Heine. Thus comes forth, in the form of exhibitions and publications, the pre-history in the 19th century of the society of the spectacle, its survival, and its effectiveness in our present day, and lastly the modules of resistance which nestle therein. Started in the initially stable form of a lecture, "(Mussel, muse, medusa)2" will end as a spiritual concert.
JEAN-PHILIPPE ANTOINE
Lives and works in Paris (France)
LEIF ELGGREN
Lives and works in Stockholm (Sweden)
CONCERT FOR A LOST QUEEN
Rescue action in 6 movements for two performers, thousands of voices, ghost ship, spinning wheel, big bow and bulky objects.
Premiere at the Swedish Concert House, Stockholm
17 Oct 2009, 1930h
18 Oct 2009, 1600h
Sweden’s most international performance star Charlotte Engelkes and the world-around-travelling composer and cellar-keeper Leif Elggren are meeting in a specially composed hybrid-concert for the Grünewaldsalen in Stockholm.
The Collaboration started in the fall 06 when Engelkes and Elggren were invited by the Swedish Radio to create a new performance/concert for the Arts Birthday at the Modern Museum in Stockholm 2007. The piece “A Tin-can Crown” consisted of eight new written songs that were performed live together with a slide-show/video. The piece was broadcasted by radio in 13 European countries and was very successfully received.
"Concert for a lost Queen" is their new collaboration and a performative concert piece for two performers, thousands of voices and musical objects.
The performance is created from own texts and dream stories. The human dream cycle is used as a tool for to go through different worlds and levels of consciousness. Pre-recorded sounds are the basic source for the electronic composition and the arrangements for stories and songs. Different new invented and built sounding objects, instruments and video material are reinforcing this. The concert is a choreographed visual performance, inspired by string quartet, mass and mechanical workshop. Executed of course with most Royal grace.
the Swedish Concert House
DAS DREIDIMENSIONELLE SCHRIFTSPRACHE
Lecture: Das Dreidimensionelle Schriftsprache. A journey through the impossible dimensions that is said to be closed for humans. About prophets, seers, saints and other people with the exceptional gift to be able to communicate with other worlds. Dedicated to Dr Konstantin Raudive. Organised by Kim and Sound Forest. 16th of July 2009 at 19:00. Spikeri, 12/1 Maskavas Street, RIGA, Latvia. www.kim.lv www.skanumezs.lv
BREAKTHROUGH
The image from a collaborative experiment (using the classic Dr. Konstantin Raudive technique with a Germanium diode to contact the other side) inside the Breakthrough project between Alejo Duque, Baruch Gottlieb, Leif Elggren and (at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in Chicago) Michael Esposito at General Public, Berlin 27th of June, 2009. Photo: Alejo Duque.
1010.co.uk
1010.co.uk/org
scrying.org
Many Voices Report from aleij on Vimeo.
Leif Elggren live at Strand Sthlm from Andreas K on Vimeo.
CELEBRATION OF A REVOLUTION
Solo show by Leif Elggren
4/4 - 3/5 2009
Live performance: Leif Elggren och Pär Thörn
Photo: Jonatan Jacobson
KRETS Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
ROMA - THE ROAD TO CONTEMPORARY ART, 2009
WILLEM ANDERSSON,
CM VON HAUSSWOLFF,
LEIF ELGGREN
ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art
2nd – 5th April, 2009. Gallery Niklas Belenius. Location: Complesso Monumentale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Borgo Santo Spirito 2.
Curated by Daniela Cascella.
WE ARE ALL BORN TO BECOME ANGELS (First published in Paletten #275, 1/2009)
FIVE FANS FOR SONIC PROTEST AND KAFFE
Concert at the Centre Culturel Suedois in conjunction with the Sonic Protest festival, Paris, December 9, 2008. Centre culturel suédois
KAFFE MATTHEWS & LEIF ELGGREN
Five Fans For Fylkingen. Thursday, November 27, 2008. Fylkingen 75 years anniversary, Stockholm.
www.fylkingen.se
Photo: Robert R Marsters www.krevlostandfoundministry.com
CHOP SHOP & LEIF ELGGREN
Saturday, November 1, 2008, 8pm. ISSUE PROJECT ROOM At the Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215, USA here
Photo: Fabio Roberti
BY COLLUSION
Audio-visual performance as a part of the eARTS festival in Shanghai, China, October 18, 2008
YELLOW & BLACK
Exhibition at Jr. Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden
16 Aug - 5 Oct 2008
Something Must Break in the framework of the alternative music festival OFF
in Myslowice, Poland. 7th - 11th of August 2008
ETT STRÄCK I RÄKNINGEN
LOTTA MELIN - LEIF ELGGREN - KRISTINE SLETTEVOLD.
Exhibition and performance at Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm. April 24-27, 2008.
ILIOS Curating: "SDR Muestra de Arte Sonoro de Santander"
with: Olivia Block, Leif Elggren, ILIOS, Zbigniew Karkowski/Tetsuo Furudate, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Francisco Lopez, Elgaland-Vargaland.
5,6 April 2008: Santander, Spain.
The Church of St Jacob, Stockholm, March 21-23, 2008.
The Sudarium of St Veronica.
Installation and first performance.
MOVING FOREST
Berlin, transmediale.08 - CONSPIRE - Festival 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2008 - Opening 29 Jan 2008. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany. www.transmediale.de
A durational sonica with citywide wifi transmission, February 1, 11:00 - 23:00 curated by Shu Lea Cheang + Martin Howse. Moving Forest is a 12 hour 5 act sonic performance to be intervened by an expandable citywide operatic manoeuver with public wifi and mobile technology. Derived from Kurosawa's film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle (aka Throne of Blood, 1957), Moving Forest renders the film's final sequences (12 minutes in length) into a 12 hour sonica of grand scale. Moving Forest presented by AKA THE CASTLE
AKA the castle is a temporal performance troop brought together to produce the 12 hour extravangaza Moving Forest. Conceived by Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse, AKA the castle pushes the network performance genre by gathering soundists, silk threaders, writers, visual artists, software artists, wifi fielders for a durational performance fueled with remorse, betrayal and a grand act of insurgency from people/s front.
The players: Castle (HKW):; omen [Mattin]; remorse [Leif Elggren] - concept/setup; betrayal [Kaffe Matthews]; overthrow [Joachim Montessuis] - details; return [Phill Niblock with Natalia Pschenitschnikova], and many others.
GALLERI KRONAN
Solo show at Galleri Kronan, Norrköping, Sweden February 23 - March 9, 2008 more info here
FLYING SICKNESS IN THE SKY
Choreographed by Lotta Melin. Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, October 17-18, 20-21, 24-28, 2007. Music by Leif Elggren. Set design by Leif Elggren and Lotta Melin. Dancer: Kristine Slettevold.
LAMPO #95
Chicago
February 24, 2007
Performance by Leif Elggren & Kevin Drumm
Photo: Angeline Evans
SOMETHING LIKE SEEING IN THE DARK
2007, 25 January 22:30
Concert w/ John Duncan
Netmage 07
Also included: Aki Onda/Oren Ambarchi/Alan Licht, Emiliano Montanari w/David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Enrico Ghezzi, Asja Bettin, shortcircuits with Thomas Pynchon, Paul Virilio, Hideo Kojima
Palazzo Re Enzo
Bologna, Italia
Organized by xing
Netmage07
John Duncan
Photo by Luca Ghedo
CELEBRATION OF A REVOLUTION
Leif Elggren's "Celebration of a Revolution" screened at Sixth Annual Activating the Medium Festival 2006, San Francisco Art Institute.
Illusion is a Natural Condition
CD packaging design for Dave Phillips + R. H.Y. Yau collaboration "Illusion is a Natural Condition." Features a series of ten original drawings by Leif Elggren lithographed on individual cards. Released 2005 on Auscultare Research/Ground Fault Recordings. Artwork: Leif Elggren. Layout: R. Yau.
www.groundfault.net/
www.artnotcrime.net/dp
www.23five.org/rhy
ARRANGING FOR AN OPENING OF A TELEPORT TO SHANGRI-LA
Leif Elggren performing "Arranging for an Opening of a Teleport to Shangri-La" at the sixth annual Activating the Medium festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
February 7, 2003. Photo by Joe Johnston
