Leif Elggren http://www.leifelggren.org/ 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. en Copyright 2010 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:04:47 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NEWS 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

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

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

]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/exquisite_code.html http://www.leifelggren.org/exquisite_code.html left Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:04:47 +0000 Paper for the conference ”HOLY FACE – FACE OF GOD, FACE OF MAN” 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)]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/paper_for_the_conference_holy_face_face_of_god_face_of_man.html http://www.leifelggren.org/paper_for_the_conference_holy_face_face_of_god_face_of_man.html left Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:04:51 +0000 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

]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/physiological_frequencies_1.html http://www.leifelggren.org/physiological_frequencies_1.html left Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:49:27 +0000 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]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/sons_of_god_live_in_usa_november_2009.html http://www.leifelggren.org/sons_of_god_live_in_usa_november_2009.html left Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:05:24 +0000 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]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/leif_elggren_live_in_london.html http://www.leifelggren.org/leif_elggren_live_in_london.html left Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:29:05 +0000 The Ghost Orchid 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.]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/the_ghost_orchid.html http://www.leifelggren.org/the_ghost_orchid.html right Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:15:55 +0000 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. Charlotte Engelkes

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 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. 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 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

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. ]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/live_events_and_recent_projects_activities.html http://www.leifelggren.org/live_events_and_recent_projects_activities.html left Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:21:00 +0000 Find God's Name! Find God's Name!]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/find_gods_name.html http://www.leifelggren.org/find_gods_name.html right Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:03:33 +0000 Touch Music & TouchRadio | Publishing & Licensing Touch Music [MCPS]. He has also contributed a piece to TouchRadio.]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/touch_touchradio_publishing_li.html http://www.leifelggren.org/touch_touchradio_publishing_li.html right Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:33:36 +0000 The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland here]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/the_kingdoms_of_elgalandvargal.html http://www.leifelggren.org/the_kingdoms_of_elgalandvargal.html right Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:28:07 +0000 Discography here
A full list of Firework Edition Records releases can be found here]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/discography_reviews.html http://www.leifelggren.org/discography_reviews.html right Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:36:20 +0000 Biography & Photos
Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/biography_photos.html http://www.leifelggren.org/biography_photos.html right Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:36:44 +0000 Features & Press Coverage http://www.leifelggren.org/features_press_coverage.html http://www.leifelggren.org/features_press_coverage.html right Mon, 21 May 2007 17:37:01 +0000 Yellow & Black | Permanent Installation Yellow & Black Permanent installation 13 Osward Road London SW17]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/yellow_black_permanent_exhibition.html http://www.leifelggren.org/yellow_black_permanent_exhibition.html right Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:27:03 +0000 Yellow & Black 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 1977) Photos, from 1978 to the present.]]> http://www.leifelggren.org/yellow_black.html http://www.leifelggren.org/yellow_black.html right Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:08:44 +0000