With apologies for cross-posting<br><div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><br></span></font></font><b><br></b><b><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" size="4">A conversation with artists and composers John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff </font><font size="4"><br>
</font></b><br>Friday, April 27th at 7 pm<br>Liebigstrasse 12 Berlin - Friedrichshain<br><br><br>John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff will be presenting a
selection of their video works followed by a discussion with the
audience.<br><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US"><b><br><br>Screenings:<br><br></b></span></font></font></font><font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><b>ELECTRA, TEXAS 2008</b></span><b> </b><br>
<font color="#000000">Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad </font>- 24:44 min.</font></font></font>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US">Electra
is a small, sleepy town with an almost deserted town center, yet
around it the pumpjacks are bringing up the last remaining drops of
black gold in the area. The procedure is the same as in the heydays,
before the depression, when more than 5000 wells and pumpjacks going
up and down could be seen in the fields. Shot in the north of Texas
close to the Red River, in a long, panoramic shots and edited with a
slow, bluesy soundtrack, </span></font><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US"><b>Electra,
Texas 2008</b></span></font><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US">,
completes a cycle of three individual films “Hashima, Japan, 2002”
and “Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt 2005”, </span></font><font color="#262626"><span lang="en-US">result
of the collaboration between the artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff
and the filmmaker Thomas Nordanstad. </span></font><span lang="en-US">Over
the last decade von Hausswolff and Nordanstad have been collaborating
on a series of films documenting post industrial locations, places
that were once looked upon as glorious examples of mans ability to
develop earths natural recourses. Today these same sites appear as
ghost towns, exploited and drained of the wealth that once surrounded
them.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
believe that there is a beauty in just watching life take place. We
try to let the time in the scenes we shoot act as a metaphor for time
passing also in the viewers contemplation, and we hope to make these
kind of “documentary films” as tributes to the people who were
and still are creating these societies. </i></span></font><font color="#535353"><span lang="en-US">CM
von Hausswolff</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY">
<font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><b><br></b></span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY"><font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><b>THE
GARDEN</b></span><b> </b><br><font color="#000000">John Duncan and
Valerio Tricoli 2006 </font>- 20 min.<br><font color="#000000">Produced
by John Duncan<br></font></font></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
Garden</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style:normal"><b>
</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">is based on the audio
installation with Valerio Tricoli which was included in the 2006
edition of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Eco e Narciso</i></span><span lang="en-US">
held at the IPCA Ecomuseum in the province of Turin, a deserted
factory complex once infamous for production methods that directly
caused the deaths of several thousand workers as well as hundreds of
residents of the surrounding area.</span><font color="#060070"><span lang="en-US">
</span></font><font color="#262626"><span lang="en-US">The town of
Cirié acquired the former IPCA Interchim site and undertook the
difficult task of reclaiming and reconstructing the area, without
however obliterating the historical memory of the site. On the
contrary, steps where taken to ensure that it was turned into a place
for remembrance, admonition and monitoring, in order to never let
people go to work unaware of going daily towards their deaths. </span></font></font></font><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b><br></b></span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><b>DREAM
HOUSE -- RAGE ROOM</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br>John
Duncan 2010 - 12:54 min.<br>Produced by Gallery Niklas Belenius<br></span></span></font></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight:normal">Making-of
video for the installation shown at Gallery Niklas Belenius,
Stockholm. RAGE
ROOM, part of the DREAM HOUSE, </span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-US">is
</span></font><span lang="en-US">designed to embody or evoke a
particular state of consciousness, set in an area of the building
that corresponds to its known or suspected location in the brain. </span></font></font>
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</p><font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>Carl
Michael von Hausswolff</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">
</span></font></font></font><font color="#535353"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">was
born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm.
</span></font></font></font>Since the end of the 1970s, Hausswolff
has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main
instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance
art, light- and sound installations and photography. <font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">He
has shown work in the biennials of Venice, Moscow, Istanbul, Santa Fe
and Liverpool as well as in other places. His music has been
performed at festivals such as Sonar, Ars Electronica and Stockholm
Electronic Music Festival and has been released on by labels such as
Ash International, Errant Bodies, Laton and RasterNoton. He is the
curator of FREQ_OUT which has been shown in Paris, Berlin,
Copenhagen, Chiangmai, Oslo, Budapest and Kortrijk. He is a long time
collaborator with Leif Elggren on the project "Elgaland-Vargaland". <br><b><a href="http://www.cmvonhausswolff.net/" target="_blank">cmvonhausswolff.net</a><br><br>John Duncan </b>was
born in the United States, currently lives and works in Bologna. His
studio releases THE CRACKLING (1996 with Max Springer), TAP INTERNAL
(2000), PALACE OF MIND (2001 with Giuliana Stefani), FRESH (2002 with
Zeitkratzer), THE KEENING TOWERS (2003), PHANTOM BROADCAST (2004) and
NINE SUGGESTIONS (2005 with Mika Vainio and Ilpo</span></font></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b> </b></font></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif" color="999999" face="helvetica" size="2">Väisänen) </font><font color="#262626"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">are
all considered by critics and composers alike to be benchmarks in the
field of experimental sounds and contemporary music. John Duncan
portrays his work as a catalyst, inciting a transmission of energy
through which he see</span></font></font></font>ks to compel the
audience to actively participate in the process of investigation and
self-discovery. His lengthy career of electroacoustic intensity and
confrontational performance art events is the result of rigorous
investigations into a number of arcane, metaphysical, and at times
transgressive themes. <font style="font-family:georgia,serif" size="2"><br>
</font><b><a href="http://www.johnduncan.org/" target="_blank">johnduncan.org</a></b><br><br><p style="margin-bottom:0cm" align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US"><br></p><a href="http://liebig12.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">liebig12.wordpress.com</a>
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