Leif Elggren tag:,2012:/11 2012-05-13T17:06:09Z Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of king. Movable Type 3.35 NEWS news news tag:www.leifelggren.org,2011://11.3324 2011-12-05T19:08:33Z 2012-05-13T17:06:09Z WFMU Playlist for Strength Through Failure with Fabio. Thursdays 3pm - 6pm on WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm wfmu.org May 3, 2012: A Royal FAilure: Special in studio appearance by Leif Elggren & Marja-leena Sillanpää. Super sound assistance by... Leif Elggren leifelggren.org WFMU Playlist for Strength Through Failure with Fabio. Thursdays 3pm - 6pm on WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm wfmu.org May 3, 2012: A Royal FAilure: Special in studio appearance by Leif Elggren & Marja-leena Sillanpää. Super sound assistance by Scott Konzelmann. More information here. --- RECORDING EDGAR ALLAN POE'S ROCKING CHAIR. April 29 in the Bronx with Michael Esposito and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. --- NEW WORK: BED Y&B --- VENTILATION SYSTEM AND TEN DRAWINGS FOR FASHION at VERGE NYC, 159 Bleecker Street, May 3 - May 6, 2012. --- PAROLE #2: PHONETIC SKIN / PHONETISCHE HAUT Annette Stahmer (ed.). Salon Verlag, Cologne (in cooperation with Errant Bodies Press, Berlin/Los Angeles), 2012. 112 pages + CD with sound examples. PAROLE #2 is the second issue of a series of publications investigating the materiality of language. Parole #2: Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut is concerned with skin and its relation to language. The term “skin” is used here as a metaphor. It represents the surface, the protective sheath of not only the human but also of other “bodies” like the walls of a house, a product’s packaging, the earth’s surface, and so on. Skin describes the boundary between within and without, and is simultaneously a sensitive instrument for communication, directing external information inwards, as well as outwardly expressing inner states. “Phonetic Skin” is a poetic term serving as a starting point for a discussion on the connection between communication/language and skin. - 18 international theorists, artists and designers present projects in “Phonetic Skin” which illuminate various aspects of this theme, including voice phenomena, talking drums, dermographism, clothing, as well as works on gardens, graffiti, and book bodies. - With contributions by: Maria José Arjona (artist, Miami) / Janet Beizer (Romance Studies scholar, Cambridge, MA) / De Geuzen (artist group, Amsterdam) / Paul Dickinson (artist, Chicago) / Mladen Dolar (philosopher, Ljubljana) / Leif Elggren (artist, Stockholm) / Steven Feld (musician and anthropologist, Santa Fé) / Leonardo Guelman (author and publisher, Rio de Janeiro) / Anish Kapoor (artist, London) / Brandon LaBelle (artist, Berlin) / André Lepecki (Performance and Cinema Studies scholar and curator, New York) / David Locke (music ethnologist, Medford) / Petra Maria Meyer (Cultural and Media Studies scholar, Kiel/Düsseldorf) / Jürgen Partenheimer (artist, Munich) / Naomi Segal (Romance Studies scholar, London) / Annette Stahmer (designer and artist, Berlin), Imogen Stidworthy (artist, Liverpool) / Trikoton (fashion label, Berlin) / Allen S. Weiss (Performance and Cinema Studies scholar, New York). see also: Parole #1: The Body of the Voice / Stimmkörper, Salon Verlag Cologne, 2009. Parole is distributed by Vice Versa (Berlin), Les presses du réel (Dijon) and DAP (New York). PAROLE #2: PHONETIC SKIN / PHONETISCHE HAUT. Buchpräsentation | Performance mit Annette Stahmer und Friedrich Tietjen. Musikalische Begleitung: Die klingende Bildserviette und andere Raritäten. Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012, 11h. SALON FÜR BUCHKUNST. 21er Haus, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien. More information here. and here. --- URSONATEFANZINE Interview with LE by Oier Iruretagoiena. In Spanish. Download the interview here. Check out Ursonate here. --- THE POOR MAN'S WEAPON. A new Yellow & Black shoe specially designed by Bryan Lewis Saunders. More about Bryan Lewis Saunders here. Order the shoe here. --- DEEP SHIT by Joachim Nordwall. More about this here. --- IT IS SAID THAT NO QUEEN IS A QUEEN. Choc.236. Volume 1 in 'The Well Spliced Breath' series, presenting some new choice cuts of voice, text/sound composisition, tape collage and the like. 
"It Is Said That No Queen Is A Queen was recorded 19th November 2011 by Alex Inglizian at Lampo, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago. The text was written by LE for the Concert For A Lost Queen, a performance / concert together with Charlotte Engelkes at the Swedish Concert House, Stockholm, 17 October 2009." All volumes in the series are a number edition of 60, in generic sleeves with unique insert. More about this here. --- UNDER THE COUCH. A new CD on Firework Edition Records by LE. The booklet contains an essay by Lucia Farinati. - This recording was made under the famous couch of Dr. Sigmund Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of the Psychoanalysis, lived here 1938- 1939. The house is now the Freud Museum [www.freud.org.uk]. From the museum’s website: 'Freud’s couch, upon which his patients would comfortably recline during psychoanalytic sessions, was normally covered by an Oriental rug throw. Underneath the throw, it is a plain and simple structure, raised by a scroll and pad at one end, though fully upholstered with springs and horsehair stuffing. The couch is rather short, so that the patient would not lie horizontally, but with the head quite high, supported by several cushions and pillows. According to Freud’s wife Martha, in an interview with Princess Marie Bonaparte in 1938, the couch was given to Freud by a grateful patient, a Madame Benvenisti, in about 1890.' - Duration: 60' 05''. Recorded on the 14th of September 2011. Recording devices: ZOOM H4n, Voice Recorder Diasonic DDR-5000, Mini Cassette Recorder Olympus S701. Cover and label photographs by LE taken during the recording session. Many thanks to the Freud Museum for so generously having me under the couch. Special thanks to Lucia Farinati and Dr. Sigmund Freud. FER1100 (P)&(C) Leif Elggren, Stockholm, London, New York 2012. BIEM/N©B LE is published by Touch Music [MCPS] London --- ARMORY SHOW 2012. Gallery Niklas Belenius at booth 910 (Nordic Section). March 8-11, Pier 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street, New York City. More information here. --- RADIO BOREDCAST. Thu 1 March – Sat 31 March 2012 Radio Boredcast is a 744-hour continuous online radio project, curated by artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) with AV Festival. In response to our ambiguous relationship with time - do we have too much or not enough? - Radio Boredcast celebrates the detail, complexity and depth of experience lost through our obsession with speed. With over 100 participants Radio Boredcast includes new and unpublished works, freeform radio shows, field recordings, interviews, monologues and much, much more. Thematic playlists will run throughout from “Acconci” to “Zzz…” You can listen continuously for a month, or for hours, minutes or seconds. Online 24 hours each day, at www.avfestival.co.uk or www.thepixelpalace.org. The schedule for the whole month is listed here. --- THE SUDARIUM OF ST VERONICA (1649) by Claude Mellan and LE. 12" poly urethan art record limited edition of 11 pieces, signed and numbered. Release and production by DE PLAYER, Hillelaan 49-d, 3072 JE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. More information here. --- SVART LJUS Borås Konstmuseum. 4/2-1/4 2012. Teckningar, fotografier, installationer, ljud och filmer av Freddie Wadling, Annika von Hausswolff, Per Svensson, Ulrich Hillebrand, Lotta Antonsson, Leif Elggren och Henrik Rylander. --- TSNOK Physiological Frequencies. Lars-Erik Hjertström-Lappalainen skriver om teckningar av LE. More information here. --- ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Utställning 21 jan – 24 mars 2012. PASSAGEN, LINKÖPINGS KONSTHALL. More information here. --- THE NORTH IS PROTECTED. Stockholm, 2011. 56 pp. English text. Offset printed. Size 110 x 171 mm. ISBN 978 91 87066 38 6. Firework Edition No. 119. www.fireworkedition.com – This text was written for and first published in the catalogue for the Nordic Pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia, June 10 - November 4, 2001, an exhibition by CM von Hausswolff, Tommi Grönlund, Petteri Nisunen, Anders Tomren and LE. “The North is Protected” on the CD “The Cobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat”, Firework Edition Records 2004. “The North Is Protected” a film by John Duncan 2005. 19 minutes. Soundtrack by John Duncan and Jean-Louis Huhta. Filmed in and around Scrutto di San Leonardo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. www.johnduncan.org – “The North is Protected” for the 3rd annual unofficial Nobel Peace Prize Internet art exhibition 2010 at www.nobelprize.no --- SWEDENBORG EPIC. A Short Reprise for Emanuel Swedenborg, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons. Exhibition from 05.02.2012 - 05.03.2012. Private view: Saturday 04.02.2012, from 19.00 - 21.00. Swedenborg Epic. is an exhibitionary reprise offering a domestic space to artists to create a work around three accounts upholding the charge of insanity brought against Emanuel Swedenborg (Stockholm 1688 - Wapping, London 1772). These accounts, largely based on linger and hearsay, have been propagated by Swedish pastor Mathesius, Methodist leader Wesley, and questionably by the Moravian Brockmer as based on events taking place during Swedenborg’s stay at Brockmer’s house in London during 1744. Arguably, the possible fictionalisation and extravagance of these accounts have lead to a certain degree of degeneration in regard of Swedenborg’s reputation, both during his late days and posthumously. Taking these peculiar and rather ambiguous accounts as its leitmotiv, the project opens a space for speculation and image-correction of Swedenborg’s stature and meaning in the present. The exhibition, curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Rianne Groen and Nina Swaep, features works and new commissions by Dave Charlesworth, Kitty Clark, Leif Elggren, Bentley Farrington and Marenka Gabeler. Swedenborg Epic. event on Facebook. 4 Brockmer House, Crowder Street, London E1 0BJ, UK. --- BLAST COUNTERBLAST. Published by WhiteWalls. Edited by Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke. With contributions by Stuart Bailey, Andrej Blatnik, Joerg Becker & Irena Knezevic, Elijah Burgher, Cameron Crawford, Jon Davies, Leif Elggren, Mario Fusco, Matthea Harvey & Adam Shecter, Nelson Henricks, Mike Hoolboom, Irena Knezevic, Erin Leland, Jessie Mott, My Barbarian, Christine Negus, Darren O’Donnell, Academy Records, Lane Relyea, John Russell, Jim Trainor, Ryan Trecatin, Emily Vey Duke, and Cooper Battersby. 192 pages | 7 line drawings | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011. More information here. --- Advertising: BLACKDEATH NOISE SYNTH More information here. --- January 2 2012, from 8pm, at Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, NYC: Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, Laeticia Morais, Sabisha Friedberg, Byron Westbrook, Bryan Eubanks, Spencer Sweeney, Jeff Burton and Daniel Neumann, Jared Mezzochi, and LE. Photo: Joachim Nordwall. --- SOUNDOFMUSIC More information here. --- THE DOLLS: Swedenborg, King Carolus XII and Queen Christina as a baby. --- Strength Through Failure On Dec. 15, Strength Through Failure will host the arrival (and 20th anniversary visit to wfmu) of their Royal highnesses King Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren of the Kingdoms of Elgaland/Vargaland. The kings will be on hand to discuss their current activities, their status regarding recognition by the United Nations, recording and art projects, the ongoing function of ruling a benevolent kingdom with territories that extend out into the universe, ongoing collaborations and the like. There may be sound performances beyond the usual chatter. tune in for this royal event. 3-6pm. More information here. --- YELLOW & BLACK New York now focusing on Manhattan, Brooklyn & Queens. Opening: December 11, 2011, 8 pm. On the sidewalk in front of 102 W 23rd Street (between 6th and 7th Ave.), New York City (A special thanks to Ken Montgomery.) and simultaneously continuing and spreading out all over the city and beyond. Wherever or whenever you may find Yellow & Black images, signs, symbols, etc., they are part of this project. This is possibly the largest public art work project ever done on this planet. The project was initiated in 1977 and has since then manifested all over the world in many different forms and shapes — mostly in our shared man-made society, (but not always, no, not always). §3 CLAIM: "I hereby lay claim to this symbol, sign, icon — the combination of black and yellow — wherever it may appear in this or any other world, in whatever shape, form, pattern or composition, be it civil or military. I hereby claim to be its originator and owner." (Leif Elggren, Stockholm 1977) – This project have found its way in different shapes and situations through the years. A statement of legitimity is put out, a statement of the self placed in the hierarchic order of the world. – Am I the created creation that in turn create new creations or am I the created creation that create my own creator? --- SWEDISH ENERGIES Presenting LEIF ELGGREN, ANNA KOCH & MATS LINDSTRÖM, ALTAR OF FLIES, CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF, HANNA HARTMANN, IKUE MORI & IDA LUNDÉN, KATHY HINDE & DANIEL SKOGLUND, THE MAGIC STATE, MATS GUSTAFSSON, SEWER ELECTION, THE SKULL DEFEKTS. Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, December 2nd and 3rd 2011. Presented by the Issue Project Room, iDEAL, EMS, WELD & the Consulate General of Sweden, NYC. Curated by Joachim Nordwall, Mats Lindström & Lawrence Kumpf. More information here. ---]]> NEWS news tag:www.leifelggren.org,2011://11.3084 2011-06-11T13:39:27Z 2012-03-14T16:26:44Z LAMPO: LEIF ELGGREN, SAT NOV 19 at 8pm, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago. Admission FREE. Reservations required; RSVP: http://elggrenlampo.eventbrite.com - A special thanks to: Arvo Zylo, Jason Soliday, Heidi Harman, Michael Esposito, Marja-leena Sillanpää. More... Field www.field.nu LAMPO: LEIF ELGGREN, SAT NOV 19 at 8pm, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago. Admission FREE. Reservations required; RSVP: http://elggrenlampo.eventbrite.com - A special thanks to: Arvo Zylo, Jason Soliday, Heidi Harman, Michael Esposito, Marja-leena Sillanpää. More information here. --- PTROLEUM FIRST RELEASE: CD ANGEL MODULATIONS BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. On November 3rd 2011 between 7-9 pm, You are very welcome to an opening reception hosted by Leif Elggren and the release of the CD ANGEL MODULATIONS in connection with OPEN STUDIOS at ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11211. This reception will then go on for 3 more days when you have the opportunity to meet 35 artists from all over the world. OPENING HOURS: Fri-Sun, Nov 4-6th, 1-7pm. More information here. --- OPEN STUDIOS at ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11211. OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, November 3rd, 7 - 9pm. OPENING HOURS Friday - Sunday, November 4 - 6th, 1 - 7pm. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a four-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 36 artists, artist collectives and curators from 22 countries currently in residence at ISCP will present work in their studios. More information here. --- Sunday October 30 - Mischief Nite 8pm - Gen Ken live with VERY SPECIAL guests. Gen Ken will be re-interpreting DRONESKIPCLICKLOOP from Ponderfloorsample using real musicians! The Stone-corner of Ave C and 2nd Street East Village. Curated by Phill Niblock XI records. Gen Ken Montgomery conducts the Droneskipclickloop quartet featuring: Sean Meehan, Michael Evans, Lary Seven, Leif Elggren and Andrea, the Enchantress of Bioluminsoity. More information here. --- The Sudarium of St. Veronica / put the music in its coffin Writing Sound by Daniela Cascella. More information here. --- 521 HUDSON MEETING Oct 8th. 11. Front: Maja, Lary. Back: Fabio, Leif, Scott, Ken, Andrea. --- ANGEL MODULATIONS CD by Emanuel Swedenborg on Ptroleum. More information here. --- HAUNTINGS Secret and Uncanny Presence in Media, Art and Pop. - For as long media have been in existence, people have believed that these media maintain a special connection to the beyond. Writing, photography, the sound recording, the filmic image – each one is the placeholder for an absent presence, for a past- or future elsewhere whose after-effects linger in the here and now. Under the current conditions of open and electronically available archives, these symptoms are growing more radical: there is virtually no mediatic artefact in existence today that is not haunted by – or, even, that does not explicitly invoke – a “spectre” or “ghost” from the past. “Hauntings” is an interdisciplinary project by Thomas Edlinger and Christian Höller. Hauntings – Ghost Box Media. Exhibition 25.9. – 17.12.2011. Kunstverein Medienturm, Josefigasse 1, 8020 Graz. Opening 24.9., 11 a.m. Coproduction steirischer herbst. The open, electronic archives of our time radicalise this suspicion even further, as there is hardly a media artifact left that isn’t haunted by a ghost of the past. What are the characteristics of this secret presence or uncanny absence in contemporary art? How is the facticity of the simulacrum, the “presence of a ghost” (Jacques Derrida) manifested? What undead beings haunt an art whose main characteristic is its claim to contemporaneity? What “sinister resonances” (David Toop) are currently at work here? Based on a small cross-section of a wide range of media, visitors can experience all the things that continue to pursue and haunt us in today’s art forms. With Yto Barrada, BIT Bureau of Inverse Technology, Minerva Cuevas, Leif Elggren, Michael Esposito/Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Harappian Night Recordings, Julian House, Mike Kelley/Scanner, Jakob Kolding, Claudia Larcher, Moon Wiring Club, Baron Mordant, The Otolith Group, Walid Raad, Dr. Konstantin Raudive, Markus Schinwald, Zineb Sedira, Alejandro Vidal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hans Weigand. More information here. --- 17.09. - 18.11.2011 SLEEP DISORDERS Curateurs: Marion Auburtin - Danielle Igniti - Benjamin L.Aman. Artistes: Marion Auburtin - Leonora Bisagno - Sneja D. - Claire Decet - Leif Elggren - Elisabeth Flunger - Samuel François - Gran Horno - Benjamin L.Aman - Sébastien Maloberti - Christoph Meier - Claudia Passeri - The Sons of God - Brigitte Zieger. Sleep Disorders présente des oeuvres qui cherchent à mettre en forme ce qui reste d'habitude à l'état latent. Il peut s'agir d'une approche littérale visant à dégager la part créatrice ou perturbatrice des troubles du repos sur le fonctionnement de l'esprit, lorsqu'il formule plus ou moins consciemment des idées ou des images. Il peut également s'agir de travaux non linéaires voire clairement contradictoires qui mènent l'artiste et le spectateur vers une forme d'impasse. Sleep Disorders aborde enfin des oeuvres dont le calme apparent dévoile un fond d' insécurité, une obsession flagrante, une forme de violence pure ou de défoulement en quête du repos salvateur. La Ville de Dudelange et les centres d'art Dominique Lang et Nei Liicht ont le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage - cocktail de l'exposition qui aura lieu le samedi 17 septembre à partir de 21 heures dans les deux centres en présence des artistes. Performances de Leif Elggren et Benjamin L.Aman à partir de 21.30 heures. Finissage le 17 novembre à partir de 21 heures. Performances de Gran Horno et Elisabeth Flunger à partir de 21.30 heures. More information here. --- Lördag den 10 september kl 15-18 har Leif Elggren vernissage på Galleri Örhänget. Utställningen heter GURUNS PAPPER OCH ANDRA TIDIGA SAMMANHANG och innehåller en mängd teckningar från tidigt 1970-tal: bilder från den legendariska alternativtidskriften Guru Papers, illustrationer till böcker, med mera. Adress Höga Stigen 3, vid Mosebacke terrass, Stockholm, tid alltså kl 15-18. Utställningen pågår fram till de 20 oktober. – Kvällen före, fredagen den 9 september, blir det Guru Papers-kväll från kl 19 i Antikvariat Hundörats nya lokaler på Östgötagatan 20. Leif Elggren och gurun själv, tidskriftens redaktör Lauri Perälä, samtalar under Jonas Ellerströms ledning om stencilapparaten som upprorsverktyg, om poesin på 1970-talet och Linköpings position i svensk litteraturhistoria. Böcker och tidskriftsnummer till försäljning, improviserad musik av Slug Area (Elggren, Ellerström, David Liljemark), vin och nötter, och andra uppträden. --- THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE EARS 2011-09-03. Audiovisual adventure by Mats Persson, Leif Elggren and Björn Granath at 9 to 9.30 PM in Lejonkulan, Dramaten, Stockholm. Åke Hodell will be visiting Carl Jonas Love Almqvist and Emanuel Swedenborg. And Queen Christina, as the godmother to Carolus XII, will be seen being born again as like a miracle. Again and again. Or is it the other way around??? A masquerade were different time levels overlap each other. --- FRIDAY Sept 2, 2011 18.00 WE ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE. Sound installation by Marja-leena Sillanpää. HEAVEN / HELL. Release and live performance by Anastasia Ax / Sillanpää. 19.30 JEAN-PHILIPPE ANTOINE / LEIF ELGGREN. Jean- Philippe presents hums and whistles and live electronics. Jean-Philippe Antoine lives and works in Paris. He has recently released a 7 inch and a CD on Firework Edition Records and have been artist in residence at EMS during August 2011. Leif Elggren presents his new talking dolls. www.myspace.com/fredons www.dailymotion.com/video/xb4y0z_conferenceperformance-jeanphilippe www.fireworkeditionrecords.com Fylkingen, Söder Mälarstrand 27, 118 25 Stockholm www.fylkingen.se --- KAMBRISKA ÅTBÖRDER ONS 31/8 KL 19.00. Fylkingen. En maxad kväll med musik, text, performance och video av: DR. MEXICO, MATTIAS FORSHAGE, ILONA HUSS WALIN, C.M. LUNDBERG & EN 1/2-KOKT I FOLIE, GIULIANO MEDICI, IWO MYRIN, ÅSA NYLÈN, KAARINA ORMIO/ELIN T. SØRENSEN/JAAN PÄRNAMÄE, LEIF ELGGREN, EMANUEL SWEDENBORG & DANIEL SOFTSWORD LOFTHAGEN. Utställning i foajén med: Mia Andrée, Leif Elggren, Ilona Huss Walin, Iris Causevic, Björn Serrander, Petri Junttila, Anna Karlkvist, C.M. Lundberg, RTBoruta, Giuliano Medici, Iwo Myrin. --- BLACK FAT SOIL Tuesday 30.8, 2011. 19:00—24:00. Fylkingen. Söder Mälarstrand 27. Stockholm www.fylkingen.se An evening with performance, music, sound- and videoart. Participating artists: Dave Allen, Answers (Henrik Andersson / Malin Arnell / Anders Bryngelsson / Mattin), Jakob Eklund, Cecilia Germain, Ulrika Gomm, Peter Kortmann, Lina Persson, Roseline Rannoch, Imri Sandström, Maxwell Simmer, Marcus Ekroth / Trevor Lee Larson / Linda Spjut. The evening starts 19.00 with a book launch of the anthology SVART FET JORD / BLACK FAT SOIL with contributions from: Dave Allen, Answers, Michael Baers, Jakob Eklund, Marcus Ekroth, Leif Elggren, Emma-Lina Ericson, Cecilia Germain, Ulrika Gomm, Delia Gonzalez, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Lise Haurum, Peter Kortmann, Erika Landström, Trevor Lee Larson, Clara López, C M Lundberg, Anna Lundh, Iwo Myrin, Per Kristian Nygaard, Lina Persson, Julia Pfeiffer, Roseline Rannoch, Imri Sandström, Maxwell Simmer, Linda Spjut, Paula Urbano, Anna Wignell. Graphic design: Florian Ludwig. Entrance: SEK50 (including the anthology BLACK FAT SOIL). BLACK FAT SOIL is supported by IASPIS. --- Something Like Seeing In The Dark Stockholm, March 2011. 56 p. English text. Offset printed. Size 110 x 171 mm. ISBN 978 91 87066 36 X Firework Edition No. 118. Something Like Seeing in the Dark was written in July 2005 and performed live by LE in the concert with the same name together with John Duncan, January 25, 2007 at Netmage 07, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italia. Something Like Seeing in the Dark was printed in a leaflet designed by Alisa Wolfson in conjunction with a concert by Kevin Drumm and LE, February 24, 2007 at Lampo, Chicago, USA. Something Like Seeing in the Dark (If other people exist then they are totally sealed secrets) was printed in the paper The New Immortality #4, Firework Edition, March 2007, Stockholm, Sweden. Something Like Seeing in the Dark was the title of an exhibition by John Duncan and LE at Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm, October - November 2007. (Something Like Seeing in the Dark can be seen upon as a little brother to the book Physiological Frequencies.) (Something Like Seeing in the Dark is also related to the one sided LP If Other People Exist, released in May 2011 by Excrete Music #2, Firework Edition Records FER1092.) --- Silent Screams And Deafening Whispers a performance evening curated by Erik Bünger, takes place at Monbijoupark in Berlin as part of the exhibition Based in Berlin. More information Erik Bünger here and here. VIMEO --- Det främmande fäderneslandet Andra sommaren. Borlänge 28-30 juni 2011. More information Joakim Forsgren here. --- THE IDIOT The following text and images were rejected by The Wire after inviting LE to contribute to The Inner Sleeve in March 2010: A trickster, a dancing young prince, that super-energetically moves between the lines, between the words, without being hurt, that moves freely. And even if this is true, the problematic issue in this case, there is an old incomprehensible future that obviously awaits in the background. Like that heavy old painting by Richard Bergh of the mad poet Gustaf Fröding sitting in his bed with his arms crossed under his patriarch beard - like a Shakespearian ghost experience. And another one; the mad painter Ernst Josephson leading the military parade to the royal castle dressed in a morning gown and a red fez. (Unfortunately he never made it to the castle. They arrested him before that.) With a catwalk fashion attitude and a free-at-last elegance (outside the asylum); ready to go. Major stimuli. Like the hands that are dancing by themselves, but at the same time together, strongly connected, as always. And the party is somewhere else, but the focus is still here. On the beach. Like it should be. The subjective and inevitable conviction that this is the centre of the world, the centre of everything. And the black and white garden outside the villa where all the others are living their lives, are having their fun. But you and me here, in the dark. Like the most important dialogue of all dialogues. Like talking to the most powerful woman in the world and at the same time trying to pee without unbuttoning the fly. Like those scars that never go away. And the open sea, the ocean, in the background. Still possible. But the lack of real worldly power (from an inferior position) creates an inner freedom where everything is accessible, within reach, all the time, twenty four hours a-day. Never closed. Like a dream in a dream. Like kids with total connection. Like Friedrich Jürgenson recording without a microphone. With open focus. That this is what we can do. Inverting the structure, the inferior position, and claim (pointing) in the opposite direction - "There goes the freedom line!" But no one goes free, it is said. Nevertheless, everyone keeps themselves going with the hope, the hope to be exceptional. Like the rich and the powerful, the only ones in human society that have the possibility to achieve immortality. No others, of course. The rest will be sedimented down in the shadows, like dust. Soil. Like it is. But still, the inevitable longing for more, to remain. Because everything is so fearful. Like in the darkest night. Like when the forest starts moving. Do plants feel fear? - All animals are saints. And those goddamn saint-eaters ready to get their teeth into skin and bones. Like old mummies incarnated backwards in newborn babies. Like when Amenhotep the fourth gave birth to his own father, to his own mother and consumed them and digested them easily. Like a first glimpse of a new era, another way of organising society, the world. And then everything went black again. Went back to the old routines, to the old traditions in order to feel safe, or safer. Because everything is totally a question of fear, a question of horror. But underneath, the bridging from one point to another, invisible during a long period of time, during generations, and then suddenly up in the daylight again: Materialising. Being visible. Influencing. Like it should. Like the subjective, but inevitable, belief that this is the centre of the world, that this is the centre of everything. And we have to deal with it - like being born by two idiots, but still enjoying the title of a King and as well being a son of God - like myself for instance. (Leif Elggren, Stockholm, March 2010) Images: Iggy Pop: The Idiot. First released 1977. Cover photo by Andrew Kent. Gustaf Fröding. Painting by Richard Bergh 1909. Painting by Ernst Josephson 1893. --- Sohrab remix album | You Are Not Alone l Leif has contributed a remix to Iranian artist Sohrab's new release. Release date: 10th June 2011. 320 kpbs - 1 track - 37:09. [Touch # Tone 42 DR1] Photography: Jon Wozencroft. The first in a series of reworkings of Sohrab material by artists showing solidarity to his cause... all label and artist money goes towards the fund for his appeal against the refusal to be granted political asylum in Germany... As you may know, Sohrab managed to leave Iran late last year for Germany, where he appealed for political asylum having been interned in Brandenburg. This appeal has failed and he is trying to raise funds to appeal against this latest ruling. If he fails, it is probable that Sohrab will be flown back to Iran and arrested at Tehran Airport... Europe is reassessing its policy to 'immigrants' on a daily basis, partly because of the rise of the political right, but also because of the influx of refugees from the 'arab spring'. The vast majority are being unceremoniously shipped back to their point of origin... This release is a fund-raiser to help pay for a lawyer to help with his appeal against the ruling. 100% of Artist and Label money from this release will be donated directly to the appeal fund. You can donate more if you wish simply by purchasing multiple copies of this release. Touch mix content providers: JG Thirlwell - Susanna (Uxorial mix) 4:48 | Achim Mohné - Milan Knizhak mix#1 (side a) 6:05 | Jóhann Jóhannsson - Zarrin (remix) 6:01 (Mixed by Jóhann Jóhannsson at NTOV, Copenhagen, 24th May 2011) | Anonymous - Triple Exposure 9:10 (Mastered by a different Anonymous 24th May 2011) | Leif Elggren - No One Really Knows (destroyed) 11:46 This download-only release is now available from the TouchShop. ]]> NEWS tag:www.leifelggren.org,2010://11.2455 2010-01-31T21:04:47Z 2012-03-23T20:12:19Z --- SLICE More about this here --- The 6th MOMENTUM BIENNIAL Imagine Being Here Now, Momentum / Punkt Ø. Opening Party Saturday June 18th, 8 pm, at Momentum kunsthall, Moss, Norway. Open: 18 June - 2 October 2011. The 6th... Leif Elggren leifelggren.org SLICE More about this here --- The 6th MOMENTUM BIENNIAL Imagine Being Here Now, Momentum / Punkt Ø. Opening Party Saturday June 18th, 8 pm, at Momentum kunsthall, Moss, Norway. Open: 18 June - 2 October 2011. The 6th Momentum Biennial, Imagine Being Here Now, is rooted in a conviction that the complexities of orientating the world depend on factors of memory and imagination and that the process, whatever it may be, inescapably transpires within a set moment and location. Indeed, we usually emphasize the latter when considering human experience, but for each individual time and space expands in unforeseen dimensions, back and forth, up and down. The inherent present of each person does not only involve transitory impressions of the here and now but continuously deals with the past and expectations of the future. Besides existing in time and space, we have the ability to imagine being somewhere else entirely, in any other place at any other time. Imagine Being Here Now presents works of art by fifty international artists in an exhibition venturing to stretch out, pin down and animate the experience of time in standstill, motion and reverse, and that of place through presence and absence. Within a specific exhibition design that engages the viewer in a distinctly alternative manner of participation and presence, the multitude of perspectives that relate to this attempt are presented in the works of art on display. Consequently, the exhibition retains a multifaceted approach both within the venues in Moss, but also in other Nordic countries through an organized itinerant performance event and, furthermore, in a two-part publication meant to thoroughly consider the matter at hand. - To parse the continual deliberation regarding the experience of presence, what time is and the widely diverse analogies describing it is, of course, truly an endeavor. But it is the sincere aspiration of the curatorial group and the participating artists that the exhibition explores the human experience and its spatial conditions and that it discusses contextual time where imagination is a key feature in producing, sharing and experiencing. Artists: Øystein Aasan (NO), Caroline Achaintre (FR), Harpa Árnadóttir (IS), Michael Baers (US), Margrét H. Blőndal (IS), Paolo Bottarelli (IT), KP Brehmer (DE), Elina Brotherus (FI), Heman Chong (SG), Bruce Conner (US), Jason Dodge (US), Aleksandra Domanović (RS), Leif Elggren (SE), Luca Frei (SE), Ellie Ga (US), Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir (IS), Hamza Halloubi (MA), Magnús Logi Kristinsson (IS), Matti Kujasalo (FI), Oliver Laric (AU), Karl Larsson (SE), Ann Lislegaard (NO), The Long Now Foundation (US), Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio (IT), Katarina Lőfstrőm (SE), Daniel Medina (VE), Maria Miesenberger (SE), Naeem Mohaiemen (BD), Ulrike Mohr (DE), Eadweard Muybridge (UK), Simon Dybbroe Møller (DK), Rosalind, Nashashibi (UK), Ioana Nemes (RO), Finnbogi Pétursson (IS), Prinz Gholam (DE/LB), Raqs Media Collective (IN), Mandla Reuter (ZA), Nikolai von Rosen (DE), Hans Rosenstrőm (FI), Andreas Siqueland (NO), SEX TAGS (NO), Simon Starling (UK), Fiete Stolte (DE), Superflex in collaboration with The Propeller Group (DK/VN), Ines Tartler (DE), Roi Vaara (FI), Kjell Varvin (NO), Bettina Camilla Vestergaard (DK), Wooloo (DK), George Young (UK). Curated by:
 Markús Þór Andrésson (IS), Christian Skovbjerg Jensen (DK), Theodor Ringborg (SE), Aura Seikkula (FI), Marianne Zamecznik (NO). More about this here --- THE NORTH IS PROTECTED (Death in Venice) (Sitting in the shallow water at the Lido seashore with Fukushima in the background.) From noon to sundown, we are contemplating the horizon, observing the sky. Overviewing heaven and earth. Is there any hope? Are there any possibilities for human life to survive on this planet? - You are most welcome to join us in this melancholic moment to meditate over beauty, death, time, fear and sadness in our mutual existence of today. 1 June, 2011 from 11.00 onwards. The private beach in front of Grand Hotel des Bains, Lido, Venice, Italy. Carl Michael von Hausswolff Anders Tomren Tommi Grönlund Petteri Nisunen Leif Elggren. Image: Moonrise by the Sea, Caspar David Friedrich, 1822. More about this here --- THE FENRIS WOLF, THOMAS BEY WILLIAM BAILEY I Wasn't There: The Joys Of Immaterial Art More about this here and here --- »FREITAG DER 13« ANNA BAK [PL] | ANSGAR WILKEN [DE] | CLAUDIO PFEIFFER [DE] DENNIS TYFUS [BE] | FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM [DE] FREYA NAJADE [UK] | HANS-GEORG SCHÄFER [DE] | JAD FAIR [US] LEIF ELGGREN [SE] | STEFFEN ULLMANN [DE] | THE TAPEWORM [UK] ULRICH CHOMEN [DE] | ZELOOT [NL] ausstellung | 13.05. - 05.06.2011 FLIESENECK | spedition | bremen | deutschland öffnungszeiten di - fr | 14.00 - 18.00 sa + so | 14.00 - 19.00 More about this here --- 2011 MERZ WORLD: YONA FRIEDMAN & TOMAS SARACENO 14.4.–21.8.2011. Exhibition at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich. More about this here --- NORDIC DARKNESS Kristinehamn Museum of Art, Sweden. info --- Ash 8.3 #4 presented to LE: See you later --- XISM 16 april - 21 aug, 2011. More about this here --- DEATH FRAGMENTS by Tetsuo Furudate, Bielefeld, Germany 16-21 April 2011 info --- INNER VOICES exhibition together with Per Svensson, Kristianstads Konsthall, Sweden 9 April-6 June 2011. Inner Voices featuring Michael Esposito and Freddie Wadling. --- Activating The Medium XIV : Radio 23five has collected works from numerous sound artists who have used radio as a principle medium in composition for the purpose of being broadcast over the radiowaves. Most tracks commissioned for this series are exclusive to the radio series. Participants include: Antimatter, Jorge Bachmann, Leticia Castaneda, Tim Catlin, John Davis, John Duncan, Adrian Dziewanski, Leif Elggren, Richard Garet, Camilla Hannan, Jim Haynes, irr. app. (ext.), Jason Kahn, Jim Kaiser, Ben Owen, Adam Pacione, Dave Phillips, RAJAR, Rale, Lisa Seitz, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Adam Sonderberg, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vertonen, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Yan Jun. °°°° 23five Incorporated, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, San Francisco, California USA. info --- The Winter Garden 19th March 2011, Osward Road, London. LE will cut black & yellow tape at 6 30pm prompt to officially launch The Winter Garden Installation & Sound Space, with a permanent exhibition, "Yellow & Black, 11th December 2007." --- iDEALFEST 2011 February 26th 2011, 19.00-01.00, Fylkingen, Stockholm. Live on stage: DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS, LEIF ELGGREN & JOACHIM NORDWALL, JOHANNES HELDÉN, EVIL MOISTURE (F), SEWER ELECTION, DUNGEON ACID, ALTAR OF FLIES, 100 sek | Cheapo bar. Seven performances of radical, mindexpanding electronic music of different kinds. iDEAL Recordings have since 1998 released experimental stuff on vinyl, compact disc and cassette - mostly noise, drone, electro-acoustics and so forth but often with a punk attitude and kind of a in-your-face energy surrounding the whole thing. iDEAL is also a festival organizer, is involved in curating sound art exhibitions, setting up concerts and whatever. Tonight at Fylkingen, iDEAL is presenting a bunch of their collaborators... Please note - ALL visitors get a free iDEAL CD release of their own choise! A special Cassette release will be available with all performing artists. Ringmaster: Optic Nest More about this here --- --- LIVE IN PARIS Concert at 64, Paris, February 16, 2011. - Photo: Catherine de Smet. More about this here --- LIVE IN STOCKHOLM Concert at Fylkingen, Stockholm, December 17, 2010 - 19:00 - 23:00 by Per Svensson, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kent Tankred, Leif Elggren and release of a new book: Transmutation by Bo Cavefors / Per Svensson on Firework Edition. Photo: Daniel Karlsson. More about this here --- UNOFFICIAL NOBEL PEACE PRIZE December 10th, 2010. More about this here --- BYE BYE BUTTERFLY December 4th, xanthi, greece:: absurd #84: with Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant), Balinese Beast, Socrates Martinis, Kostis Kilymis, DJ Bwana, Thanasis Chondros, Alexandra Katsiani and LE. More about this here Photo: Nicolas Malevitsis. --- THE TAPEWORM COMES ALIVE! Le Guess Who? and PAUME present a night curated by cassette label THE TAPEWORM featuring Leslie Winer, Leif Elggren, Zerocrop, Ananizapta, Savage Pencil, People Like Us and Philip Marshall. Theater Kiker, Utrecht, Holland, November 28, 2010. More about this here and here Photo: Mike Harding --- THE THIRD POWER November 18, 2010, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall, Sweden. Performance by Marja-leena Sillanpää, Pär Thörn, LE. More about this here Photo: Anna Sandberg --- THE STEN HANSON FESTIVAL October 9, 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Performance by Sten Hanson and the following artists invited by Sten Hanson: Julien Blaine, Erik Bünger, Christina Kubisch, Blood Stereo, Hanna Hartmann, Leif Elggren. More about this here --- THE MODERNA EXHIBITION 2010 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2 October 2010 - 9 January 2011. LE showing two different sound projects together with related material and paraphernalia (and a specially made vitrine with extraterestial signs of dignity): The Summerhouse (CD release together with Michael Esposito and Emanuel Swedenborg), The Sudarium of St Veronica (CD release together with Claude Mellan). For more information see www.fireworkeditionrecords.com More about The Moderna Exhibition 2010 here --- SPRINGERIN Springerin -Hefte für Gegenwartskunst. springerin ist das Magazin zur Kritik und Theorie der Kultur der Gegenwart. Springerin 4/2010. Politisches Design. Christian Höller: Die Rückseite der Medien. Zum Dispositiv des Unhörbaren und Unsichtbaren am Beispiel des Künstlers Leif Elggren. More about this here and here --- Skajs Antikhandel / Niklas Belenius Stockholm, "Installation I", Antiques - Contemporary Art, 29 September - 6 October 2010. http://www.skajsantikhandel.com/1.html --- Interview with LE by Markus Metsälä. originally appeared in Special Interests #3 Interview Special Interests --- ETHER VOYAGE #2 Concert / performance by LE and Charlotte Engelkes together with Kent Tankred, Johan E Andersson, The Sons of God and Inga Känd, September 20, 2010, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. "Engelkes and Elggren pick up the thread from Concert for a Lost Queen at the Stockholm Concert Hall, October 2009. In this Hybrid-concert you will meet The (refound) Queen, The Spinning Wheel Orchestra and witness a new flying attempt with The Sons of God's magic carpet." More about this here --- THE FIREWORK APPENDIX Appendix is necessary; fantastic; fearless; sovereign; intelligent; non-commercial; commercial; dreamlike; political; headless – and therefore absolutely free of charge. Appendix is a crying voice in the desert, anonymous and unknown, innocent and lost, confused and gone with a wind, like dust, like small bushes, like an open car alone in the rain, like smoke, like a burning house, like a burning head, like you, like me, like everything that calculate similarity, loyalty, that calculate fear and what comes with that; people and beasts and all that crawls and run around in the night … More about this here --- ETHER VOYAGE #1 Concert / performance by LE and Charlotte Engelkes, September 9, 2010, Gaffel Art Park Event, Gävle, Sweden. More about this here --- SWEDISH CONCEPTUAL ART September 4 - November 14, 2010, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden. More about this here --- NO QUEEN IS A QUEEN (For Queen Elizabeth) Episode 12. More about this here Photo: Marja-leena Sillanpää. --- RÉPONDEUR, PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS Répondeur. Leif Elggren, Smell (part 2). 01 août 2010 - 31 août 2010. Ce programme est réalisé avec la complicité de Rahma Khazam, journaliste et critique. More about this here --- Photo: noid ///// KONFRONTATIONEN NICKELSDORF 2010, AUSTRIA, 15-18th JULY Curated by Mats Gustafsson & Hans Falb. Soundart-Exhibition (as of June 28): Marja-leena Sillanpää, Leif Elggren, Billy Roisz/dieb13, Kathrin Stumreich, Daniel Gyolcs, Heike Kaltenbrunner/Florian Waldner/Susanna Gartmayer, Klaus Filip/noid Nickelsdorf --- BANANAFISH #16 "I Pity Inanimate Objects" interview with LE by M.Monroe. Interview Tedium House --- DET FRÄMMANDE FÄDERNESLANDET Project curated by Joakim Forsgren in relation to the Peace&Love festival, Borlänge, Sweden. Artists: Dorinel Marc, Sandra Isacsson, Daniel Boyacioglu, Leif Elggren. June 29 - July 1, 2010. More about this here --- ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE June 2010, WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. More about this here --- FYSIOLOGISKA FREKVENSER Vernissage lördag 29 maj kl 12-17. MARTIN BRYDER GALLERY, Nygatan 12, Lund, Sweden. 29 maj – 20 juni 2010. More about this here --- Drawings 2004-2009 A new book released by Niklas Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, April 2010. 372 p. English / Swedish text. Offset printed. Letterpress printed softcover. Size 200 x 340 mm. ISBN 978 91 87066 33 5 --- INGALILL A new CD in a limited edition on Rumpsti Pumsti, Berlin More about this here --- Photo: Sara Elggren TOCHNIT ALEPH & NK BERLIN PRESENTS: LEIF ELGGREN - EXHIBITION. DVD PRESENTATION. LIVE PERFORMANCE. SUNDAY 25 APRIL 2010. NK. ELSENSTR.52. BERLIN 10259. More about this here --- Photo: Marja-leena Sillanpää RUNDGÅNG (Feedback). A Medial Metamorphosis. - A three working days performance by Kristine Scholz, Mats Persson, Leif Elggren, Kent Tankred and Siv Johansson. Fylkingen, Stockholm, Friday 16/4 to Sunday 18/4, 2010 between 18.00–23.00. More about this here --- GOD’S NAME IS NOT SPELT CORRECTLY Books and letterpress prints 1981–2010 by LE. April 10 to May 8, 2010. Rönnells antiquarian bookshop, Stockholm. More about this here And here --- EXQUISITE CODE Introducing Swedish semla to the people of England! The first Swedish semlas ever seen since the days of Emanuel Swedenborg (or maybe Ture Sventon) were made by the artist Liam Scully on the 19th of February 2010 in conjunction with the project Exquisite_Code at E:vent Gallery, London. The recipe for the semla was taken from the cover of the CD "The Summerhouse" (released 2007 by Michael Esposito, E Swedenborg and LE on Firework Edition Records). More about this here and here --- EXQUISITE CODE More about this here ---]]> Paper for the conference "HOLY FACE – FACE OF GOD, FACE OF MAN" tag:www.leifelggren.org,2009://11.2389 2009-12-17T15:04:51Z 2012-03-23T20:10:36Z Caroline Levisse The Sudarium of St Veronica by Leif Elggren together with Claude Mellan, 2007 The Acoustic Dimension of the Holy Face Paper 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) ➢ The conference was originally in French, this is a short transcript in English of the speech: The Sudarium of St Veronica is a work of sound art created by the Swedish artist Leif Elggren together with the French 17th century engraver, Claude Mellan (1598-1688). Indeed, at the origin of the acoustic performance lies Mellan’s famous engraving, La Sainte Face [The Holy Face], from 1649. It is an exceptional and unique work of art for it is engraved from a unique spiral line. Fascinated by this work, Elggren decided to record the sound of the copper engraving, by playing it. He used a copy of the engraving and a drypoint needle, which rubbed the plate, following the spiral line. This action took place in July 2007 and resulted in three recordings, each one of them being one of the acoustic trace or acoustic imprint of Mellan’s Holy Face. With the CD then produced, each one of us can listen to these recordings . In the CD’s booklet, Elggren explains: « I was really excited by the thought of detecting what was hidden in that spiral line. To hear the image! ». My aim is therefore to explore the significations hold by this acoustic trace in its relation to the source picture, the Holy Face. The bringing-forth of the acoustic dimension of the Holy Face In the same booklet one can read “Leif Elggren and Claude Mellan” as the authors of the work. What is really Elggren’s role here? He is not the author of the sound per se and indeed, Elggren describes himself as a “tool” whose role is to set up the right circumstances for things to happen. What the artist does is to reveal, bring forth, a sound that was always already there, but until the artist’s action it was hidden or rather inaudible. It is interesting here to draw a parallel with the image and the legend of St. Veronica, whose hands did not produce anything but were simply presenting, i.e. bringing to our attention, bringing in our visibility, the miraculous imprint of Christ’s face on her veil. Physical characteristics of sound and acoustic powers Sound is for Elggren “a companion in the enhancement of phenomena and moods” . Sound is therefore used to amplify already existing phenomena, as such as the image in our case. Music and sound in general have for a long time been given a special power on human body, especially due to the physicality of the acoustic vibrations which fill up the space and penetrate the body. […] “Amplified” perception of the Holy Face In The Sudarium of St Veronica, the acoustic presence is added to the usual visual presence of Mellan’s Holy Face. This doubling of the presence is based on a sensorial overstimulation: one does not only look at the picture, but also hears it. The visual and the acoustic, the spatial and the temporal dimensions fuse together through the gesture of the artist playing the copper plate. The acoustic imprint revealed by Elggren is an amplification, an enhancement, of a phenomenon; knowing that a phenomenon is the manifestation of something, is it possible to identify what is this something? Are we simply hearing the sound of the image, the copper plate, or it is possible to go further? An acoustic imprint of the divine? The image represented by Mellan is not any image, it is a Holy Face; this engraving is thus linked to a long tradition of religious images which have their origin in the miraculous acheiropoietos images; images that are more than mere artifacts. If we add to this filiation the fact that Elggren considers himself as a tool; and the miraculous dimension in “hearing an image”; and the strong powers of the sound on body and psyche; is not tempting to interpret the sound of The Sudarium as the acoustic trace or imprint of the divine, of the invisible, present in all its absence beyond the material surface of the image? It would mean that there is a “crossing of glances” , i.e. an exchange of glances between the divinity and the human through the image that happens in presence of this installation; this is indeed the characteristic of religious images such as the icons, which set forth a glance looking back at the religious viewer. For several reasons such a hypothesis does not function. First because Mellan’s work itself rather belongs to the realm of the work of art than to the tradition of religious images (icons). Second, the exchange of glances supposes a “contract” – that is faith, prayer or liturgy – for the divine presence to manifest itself and be acknowledged; but here the context of The Sudarium of St Veronica seems very secular and profane. Finally, if one considers the whole artistic creation of Leif Elggren, the exchange of glances and the manifestation of a remote and unintelligible divinity are very unlikely. Elggren’s strategy: the abolition of boundaries If there were one red thread to identify in Elggren’s work, I would say it is the abolition of boundaries, starting with the one between image and sound. With such an attitude, his work consists in opening new worlds, accessible to all of us. When, along with Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Elggren proclaimed himself king of the Royal Kingdoms of Elgaland-Varlgaland in 1992 (KREV), he abolished the frontier between the king and his subjects, showing that royalty was accessible to each one of us. It’s not all: in KREV, death has been abolished and all the citizens are consequently immortal. Dead and alive become two connected realities, or worlds, because the moment that represented the boundary between the two is erased. Communication is made possible and indeed in pieces such as Talking to a Dead Queen (1994-1996), Elggren tries to contact the other side. By abolishing the boundaries normally considered as impassable, Elggren abolishes the verticality of the world’s structure, i.e. the hierarchies. There are no more worlds placed on top of each others, but worlds equally placed next to each others. The communication between the different spheres of reality is not reserved to some privileged and selected intermediaries anymore, each and every person can move from one world, one reality, to another. Even more interesting in our case is the abolition of the distinction between human and divine. Elggren wrote and said several times: “We are all God” and “We are all, each one of us, Jesus Christ” . What Elggren deletes here – in a will of social justice – is the privilege taken by some who declared to be the “intermediaries” between men and God: the pope and the priests. This will is very clear in the text for the performance The Power is Yours! done with Kent Tankred (Sons of God) at the Vatican in 1996: “For each and every person, we now want to reestablish the direct link with the divine within ourselves. We have shortcircuited the hegemony of the Pope and can now bypass the power of the Catholic Church, in fact of institutionalized religion altogether. We will create a new system and retain contact with the creator of everything […] Our task is simply to return that which for once and all time was given and which belongs to each and everyone in this world […] What we refer to here as the divine power is, in our eyes, the form of energy which perhaps makes up the epicenter of each and every life […]. That which, again perhaps, is the driving force behind everything…” and somewhere else he says: “But there are no God’s representative on earth ! We are all God and equally people with the same unquestionable worth, wherever we might be in the world and on the social ladder. God is not outside us, God is in us all and we can all say : ‘I am God!’ ” » . Connection with the other side – Connection with the psyche “God is in us all”… Elggren brings back God into our own reality and enables us to establish contact with him within our inner existence. The artist erases the possibility of a prototype, an original that would be over us, would be inaccessible and unintelligible for human beings. While looking at the face of Christ as represented by Mellan and listening to its acoustic imprint, the other side that becomes accessible to us is our inner selves. Elggren’s works are, according to the artist himself: “an attempt to gain access to those hard, rare moments when daily life merges with the heroic nature of the inner self” . Such a connection with the inmost depths of the psyche can seem to coincide with Elggren’s gesture when he realized the first recording of the engraving, which is a manual recording: with the drypoint needle he started at the exterior of the plate and then went downwards toward the center of the spiral, the tip of Christ’s noise, in a counter-clockwise movement. It is also interesting to notice that the face is what marks our individuality and identity. This face represented by Mellan and based on a spiral line irresistibly evokes a finger print, which is also a mark of our identity and uniqueness. We are all different and unique, but is there not, at the very same time, something that we all share? We are all God and Jesus-Christ; therefore there is something in the face of Christ to which each one of us can identify. The springing up of the inaudible […] When The Sudarium of St Veronica takes place in a church… We have explored what The Sudarium could mean in a secular context; what happens when it is shown in a religious place? It is interesting since Elggren installed its work in the Evangelical Lutheran church of St Jacob in Stockholm during Easter 2008 (March 21-23). A big reproduction of Mellan’s Holy Face replaced the usual altarpiece and it was possible at some times to hear the sound of the image. One of these moments was during the office on Good Friday. Before the priest’s sermon, churchgoers were invited to listen to the picture. The Holy Face was a perfect image for that day, since it is linked to the Passion, but what about the sound? According to the coordinator of the cultural events for St Jacob’s church, Eva Asp, after listening to the metallic abstract sound, the priest expressed his anger and irritation at the sound; he then flipped around his discourse and said that such negative emotions may actually be proper feelings for Good Friday, the day of Christ’s death on the cross. Eva Asp went on reflecting on that point and considered that it was a really good dimension of Elggren’s visual and sound installation: it allows the presence of negative feelings which are usually left outside of the space of the church. Indeed, in the liturgical space one usually find art that encourages feelings of peace, beauty and harmony, devotion, hope… but such positive feelings are not representing the whole meaning of being human; that is to say that a lot of what is it to be a human being is absent in most of church art. ➢ Conclusion: The Sudarium of Saint Veronica is “une mise à jour” [which in French both means “a setting forth” and “an actualization”] of the Holy Face because it first is “une mise au jour” [a setting forth, a revelation] of the hidden sound of the engraving’s spiral line – outwards spiral/recording; and it is at the same time “une mise à jour” [an actualization] of the Holy Face in the sense that Elggren’s work offers a refection about the meaning of this very famous and old picture for today’s viewers after Nietzsche’s death of God and the inversion of Platonism; that is to say after the suppression of the almighty and unintelligibly remote prototype. Field www.field.nu 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 tag:www.leifelggren.org,2009://11.2363 2009-11-24T22:49:27Z 2012-03-23T20:25:56Z 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 (HEMLIGSTÄMPLAT) with Leif Elggren and Thomas Liljenberg... Leif Elggren leifelggren.org 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 (HEMLIGSTÄMPLAT) with Leif Elggren and Thomas Liljenberg will now be released. TOP SECRET (HEMLIGSTÄMPLAT) is a new box on satumaa*kustantamo in collaboration with 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 GODBELOW 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 tag:www.leifelggren.org,2009://11.2345 2009-10-30T11:05:24Z 2009-11-25T18:41:25Z 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... Field www.field.nu

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 tag:www.leifelggren.org,2009://11.2319 2009-10-25T11:29:05Z 2009-11-14T12:12:09Z 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... Field www.field.nu 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]]> The Ghost Orchid tag:www.leifelggren.org,2008://11.1562 2008-09-02T14:15:55Z 2008-09-02T14:46:19Z Leif Elggren narrated the spoken word passages for PARC's "The Ghost Orchid - An Introduction to EVP". The ParaPsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC], in association with Ash International, is proud to present the first ever fully comprehensive investigation into the... Field www.field.nu PARC's "The Ghost Orchid - An Introduction to EVP". The ParaPsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC], in association with Ash International, is proud to present the first ever fully comprehensive investigation into the paranormal phenomenon of EVP, otherwise known as Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Without doubt EVP falls into the category of the paranormal alongside other unexplained mysteries such as ufology, life after death & poltergeist activity. The listener is guided through a collection of strange and mysterious voices that have appeared without explanation onto the tapes of EVP researchers. Included with the CD is a 24 page booklet containing commissioned articles which cover the conflicting views surrounding the EVP. Actual voice samples are reproduced here for the first time on compact disc: Polyglot Voices, Public Service Broadcasting, Interruptions across the airwaves, Singing Voices, Instant Response Voices, and the extraordinary Alien Voices. The CD also includes a commentary by the artist Leif Elggren (in English), and recordings of the work of Raymond Cass, England’s leading EVP researcher, and original member of the Fortean Group, and the Latvian EVP researcher, Dr. Konstanin Raudive. This CD is available from the TouchShop here.]]> Recent Live Events, Projects & Activities tag:www.leifelggren.org,2008://11.1560 2008-09-02T09:21:00Z 2011-10-20T19:45:26Z 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,... Field www.field.nu 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. Charlotte Engelkes


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 EVP

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.

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 with 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. Photo by Luca Ghedo. Netmage07John Duncan

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

WORKING DAY Mats Gustafsson and LE “Working day” (Creating free sounds for to eliminate the horrible injustice in the world). Three working days (full day concerts) at three different antiquariats in Stockholm 2003. Hundörat, Sankt Paulsgatan 15. May 14, 1200 – 1800. Andra Böcker & Skivor, Rörstrandsgatan 25, May 21. 1400 – 1830. Rönnells Antikvariat, Birger Jarlsgatan 32. May 28, 1000 – 1800. Mats Gustafsson here.

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 More info here

FLOWN OVER BY AN OLD KING Leif Elggren solo exhibition at Färgfabriken, Stockholm, October 14 - November 26, 2000. Curator: CM von Hausswolff. Co-curator: Jan Åman. More info here. ]]> Find God's Name! tag:www.leifelggren.org,2008://11.1549 2008-08-26T12:03:33Z 2008-09-02T09:24:02Z Find God's Name!... Field www.field.nu Find God's Name!]]> Touch Music & TouchRadio | Publishing & Licensing tag:www.leifelggren.org,2007://11.66 2007-08-21T16:33:36Z 2008-03-02T12:46:00Z Leif Elggren is exclusively published by Touch Music [MCPS]. He has also contributed a piece to TouchRadio.... Field www.field.nu Touch Music [MCPS]. He has also contributed a piece to TouchRadio.]]>
Leif Elggren is exclusively published by Touch Music [MCPS]. He has also contributed a piece to TouchRadio.
Touch Radio Live in London - 20:11 Live concert as a part of the xxxxx23, Limehouse Town Hall, London, March 23rd, 2006. "This basic sound material was recorded in my biological mother's uterus with my not-yet developed teeth used as a fundamental and simple recording device a few days before my birth. This sound material was kept recorded and hidden until recently inside one of my wisdom teeth, but has now been brought to daylight and exposure."]]> The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland tag:www.leifelggren.org,2007://11.72 2007-08-20T17:28:07Z 2007-08-26T10:25:25Z King Leif l is one of the Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland, along with Carl Michael l. More information about the Kingdoms can be found here... Field www.field.nu here]]>
King Leif l is one of the Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland, along with Carl Michael l. More information about the Kingdoms can be found here The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] were proclaimed in 1992 and consist of all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital. You are currently visiting the KREV digital territory as a citizen or as a tourist. You are encouraged to browse the digital territory of the Kingdoms - follow the links on the right. Elgaland-Vargaland is the largest – and most populous realm on Earth, incorporating all boundaries between other nations as well as Digital Territory and other states of existence. Every time you travel somewhere, and every time you enter another form, such as the dream state, you visit Elgaland-Vargaland.
]]> Discography tag:www.leifelggren.org,2007://11.69 2007-07-21T16:36:20Z 2008-09-06T14:03:05Z Leif Elggren product can be found in the TouchShop here A full list of Firework Edition Records releases can be found here... Field www.field.nu here
A full list of Firework Edition Records releases can be found here]]> Talking to a Dead Queen Fylkingen Records FYCD 1008, 1996 CD - 1 track - 63:17 Dedicated to my aunt who had the gift of being able to fall asleep anywhere and anytime. Recorded live on November 2, 1994 at Finnboda, Stockholm. Mixed and adapted at Studio Nybygget. The sound source is a Cu-pipe (3.760x12 mm) conected to an amplifier. The aim is to get a message through to the other side. The CD is dedicated to Elggren's aunt who had the gift of being able to fall asleep anywhere and anytime. Paul Pignon - voice
The Cobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat Firework Edition Records FER 1051, 2004 CD - 13 tracks The basic sound material for the ten cobblestone songs on this CD is from one recording made while throwing a cobblestone (once!) on the street outside Firework Edition, Stockholm June 15, 2001. The title refers to a bronze sculpture by the Russian artist Ivan Shadr (1887-1941) called The Cobblestone Is The Weapon Of The Proletariat (1927). In the booklet: a part of a conversation between Jim Haynes and Leif Elggren in relation to the Activating the Medium at SFMOMA, San Francisco February 2003.
Is There A Smell On The Other Side? Firework Edition Records FER 1062, 2007 CD - 1 track - 65:25 "Oh yes, this eternal materialisation, this chance of a body, an opportunity. As I write this they report in the media that the population in Sweden has just become nine million bodies. Nine million bodies that come from where? From where? ? I remember that when my kids were big enough we could, in one way or another, communicate verbally. I used to ask them where they came from. ? Where do you come from? Do you know? Do you remember? I was wondering if they had some small reminiscences left, some small memories or so. They were still so close. So close to that incomprehensible. So close to that threshold just recently passed."
Discography: Cu (7” with prints in a box, Phauss/Firework Edition, 1982) Phauss & Firework (7”, Radium 226.05, 1984) The Light/Dark Room (7”, Radium 226.05, 1984) UGN The Sons of God (LP, Radium 226.05, 1986) Small Vehicle (stolen) The Sons of God (cassette, Firework Records, 1988) Flown over by an old King (LP, Radium 226.05, 1988) Ventilation, The Homecoming (track on ”Testament”, box with 5x7”, RRRecords, USA, 1991) Warszawa 1 The Sons of God (track on ”Apo Mikhanis Music”, LP, Ano Kato Records, Greece, 1991) Mission The Sons of God (CD, Anckarström, 1991) The New Immortality (7”, Firework Edition/Anckarström, 1992) Resurrection The Sons of God & The Hafler Trio (CD, Touch, UK, 1993) Beograd The Sons of God (track on Textures, CD, LIMUR, Sweden 1993) Talking to a Dead Queen (CD, Fylkingen Records, 1996) Proclamation The Sons of God (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1996) Zzz... together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1996) KREV National Anthem No. 1 together with CM von Hausswolff (CD, Ash International, UK, 1996) The Internationale (7", Firework Edition Records, 1996) Stockholm/Oslo 39, 40, 41, 42 (track on "siksi cd 4 96 promo", CD, siksi, Finland, 1996) The Codfish Suit together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1997) Ebola/Swedish Dreamers together with Thomas Liljenberg (7", Firework Edition Records, 1997) Elohim (basic electric version) (track on "Links Outta Here", CD, Generator Sound Archive, USA, 1997) The New Immortality #2 (7", Firework Edition Records 1998) Kapotte Muziek by L.E. (7", Korm Plastics, Holland 1998) In Sleep the Knives are Sharpened (10", some, Iceland 1998) RGB (CD, siRcom, Scotland 1998) Introduction on The Ghost Orchid (CD, Ash International, UK, 1999) 9.11 together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1999) The Object The Sons of God (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1999) Pluralis majestatis (CD, Firework Edition Records, 1999) Mother!!? (track on Antitrade, an Ash International compilation CD, UK 1999) The Party together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records,1999) A Whole in the Palisade (track on Nature is Perverse, CD, Fylkingen Records, 2000) Detecting HDT (track on ElektNoiz#4, CD, Japan, 2000) 45 minutes from underneath the beds (CD, Absurd #6, Greece 2000) Two Thin Eating One Fat together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2000) UGN/MAT (CD, Ash International, UK 2000) FEAR (the scuffle of angels) (track on the CD emre [dark matter], siRcom, Scotland, 2000) 60 sec From Underneath the Beds (cassette, 10x10 compilation, Banned Prod. LA, USA, 2000) Cutting Crowns (7”, Meeuw Muzak, Amsterdam, 2001) Latrine (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2001) The Soya Bean (track on Insofar Vapor Bulk, Russia, CD, 2001) Othello as Noise Opera by Tetsuo Furudate (voice of Othello, CD, Les Disques du Soleil et de l´Acier, France 2001) Excerpt from Latrine (track on Sample Minds, CD, Austria 2001) The Sons of God Drive Chairs (7", Firework Edition Records, 2001) In Every Seem There Is A Hidden Message (track on The North Is Protected, 10", Helsinki/Venezia, 2001) SOYA (track on compilation CD for Bananafish No 16/2002, San Francisco) J.H. (track on compilation CD for John Hudak, Alluvial Recordings, Minnesota, USA, 2001) Sleepwalking (track on International Compilation CDR3, Japan 2002) The Sons of God Refurnish (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2002) EXTRACTION (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2002) As if I never had existed (track on the CD International Art Exhibition, BOXmedia/Heaven Gallery, USA, 2002) The Paving Stone is the Weapon of the Proletariat No. 3 (track on the CD Friends of the Bumblebee, Sweden 2002) The Cobblestone is the Weapon of the Proletariat (track on the CD Geologists and Professional Tourists, N&B Research Digest, Russia, 2002) The Paving Stone is the Weapon of the Proletariat No. 5 (track on the CD Das Dreidimensionale Möbiusband, Flying Swimming, Japan, 2003) Virulent Images Virulent Sound (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2003) The Cobblestone is the Weapon of the Proletariat No. 8 (track on the 7” “Untitled”, Die Stadt, Germany, 2003) My Mothers Hair (detail) (track on the CD Avantoscore 2003, Avanto, Finland, 2003) Royal Organ (track on the CD Spire, Touch, UK, 2003) COLY I (revisited) (track on the CD Ilios-Encyclopedia-RW, Antifrost, Spain, 2004) M (track on the CD The Hidden City, Sweden 2004) The Cobblestone is the Weapon of the Proletariat (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2004) Connecting the Cross The Sons of God (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2004) The Most Powerful Woman In The World (8” lathe cut, Kning Disk/iDEAL, Sweden, 2005) FOR FEAR (track on the CD Fear Drop 12, France 2005) We are all born to become angels (3", Kning Disk, Sweden, 2006) Gottesdienst together with Henrik Rylander (CD, iDEAL recordings, Sweden, 2006) 45 minutes from underneath the beds (CD, utan titel, Greece 2006) Is there a smell on the other side? (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2006) Zzz... (excerpt) together with Thomas Liljenberg (track on the double CD Music Overheard, ICA Boston, USA, 2006) NAMIBIA (a straight line from the North) together with Pär Thörn (MC, namenlos, Sweden, 2007) Sixth Day (track on the CD Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, Greece, 2007) Hiv (track on the CD Merge #18, Merge, Sweden, 2007) CUNT 69 together with Thomas Liljenberg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2007) The Sudarium of St Veronica together with Claude Mellan (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2007) The Summerhouse together with Michael Esposito and Emanuel Swedenborg (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2007) KREV National Anthem #2 (Mariachi version) (7", Ash International, UK, 2007) KREV National Anthem #3 and #4 (Klezmer, Kabukabu) (7", Ash International, UK, 2007) Live in LA together with CM von Hausswolff and Per Svensson (CD, Firework Edition Records, 2007) The Invoice together with Peter Cederblom and Per Svensson (7", Firework Edition Records, 2008) THEA I The Sons of God (CD, Firework Edition Records/Ars & Modus, 2008)]]> Biography & Photos tag:www.leifelggren.org,2007://11.70 2007-06-21T16:36:44Z 2008-08-13T14:30:10Z Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.... 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Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.]]>
Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons. Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King. Elggren spent five years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, specializing in drawing, design and bookprinting. In the late ‘70s he began to associate with performance groups, meeting people like Hausswolff and Thomas Liljenberg. With the latter he formed Firework in 1978, a duo that put up exhibitions and performances. Around the same time he purchased a press and started to publish art books. In 1988 he formed the duo Guds Söner (The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred, whom he had met four years earlier. The duo excels in creating long, puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence, love, the quotidian, food and royalty. Elggren released his first 7" records in 1982 and 1984 on Hausswolff's label Radium. A first solo LP, Flown Over by an Old King, came out in 1988. The inception of Firework Edition in 1996 allowed Elggren to release more of his music and the growing popularity of installation art in avant-garde music circles (thanks to its ties with experimental electronica) has given his work more international exposure since the late ‘90s. Other key solo works include Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (2000). Together with Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from Norway). In 2007 he appeared (with John Duncan) at the Netmage festival in Bologna organized by xing and executed "Something Like Seeing in the Dark". Leif Elggen is also a member of Guds Soner (or The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred.]]> Features & Press Coverage tag:www.leifelggren.org,2007://11.71 2007-05-21T16:37:01Z 2008-02-07T18:38:23Z Field www.field.nu
An interview with Leif Elggren in Bananafish (USA) can be found here An interview with Leif Elggren in Dusted (USA) can be found here An interview with Leif Elggren in Perfect Sound Forever (USA) can be found here]]>