I am a Swedish author who writes fiction, and also books about occulture. I also work with filmmaking, in publishing, photography and music. For a quick overview, here are some links:
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AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: Get all my books at the best prices and postage costs.
TRAPART: My own publishing company with an online store, focusing on art books and editions.
HIGHBROW LOWLIFE: A music label I run together with my wife, artist/psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair. Basically an archive for all the music we’ve made together, but there will be new (and older) releases too.
CARL ABRAHAMSSON CURRICULUM VITAE:
1966: Born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1972-1981: Studied at Engelbrektsskolan, Stockholm.
1978: Started taking photographs.
1981-1984: Studied at Östra Real/Östermalms Gymnasium, Stockholm.
1981-1982: Co-published comics fanzine Splasch.
1985-1989: Studied at the University of Stockholm (journalism & film theory/history).
1986-1988: Published music/subculture fanzines Lollipop and Acts Of Interstellar
Torture.
1988: Studied at Stockholms Filmskola/Nya Filmskolan (filmmaking).
1987-present day: Music-making with the band White Stains. Also solo work, and in projects Deform Project, Sinnelag and Understen.
1988-1990: Initial record label and publishing activities through TOPYSCAN (=Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth Scandinavia: Books, booklets, LPs, singles, cassettes, videos).
1989-1993: Edited and published occultural journal The Fenris Wolf in three issues (one magazine and two books).
1990-1993: Founded and worked with record label and book publishing company Psychick Release (CDs, videos, books, booklets, cassettes, events/concerts).
1990-1992: Co-founded and worked with film society Cinematick in Stockholm, organising numerous film shows, events and parties, including in-person- appearances by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Jörg Buttgereit and several others.
1994-1998: Co-founded and worked with book publishing company Looking Glass Press.
1996-2004: Founded and worked with advertising agency/publishing company Übertext.
1996-present day: Photographic and other exhibitions. For a more detailed list, see the ART/PHOTO section at this site.
2000: Edited and published first issue of art fanzine BULT.
2000-present day: Freelance work in journalism, editing, graphic design, advertising and photography.
2000-present day: Lecturing on various topics, mostly about the intersection between art and the esoteric (Royal College of Art, Stockholm, Royal College of Art, Copenhagen, Gasworks, London, the Here to Go-symposium, Trondheim and many more places). Also moderation of talks on art, Q & A-sessions, writing introductions and forewords to catalogs, artists’ books etc.
2000-2018: Music-making with the band/project Cotton Ferox.
2010-2011: Editor and writer at Tidningen Kulturen, music and film sections.
2011-2016: Co-founder of Edda Publishing (together with Fredrik Söderberg). Editor of The Fenris Wolf annual book project (revived in 2011).
2012-present day: Founded and worked with TRAPART Books, Films and Editions.
A chronological list of books and other text-related projects can be found in the WRITING section at this site.