Carl Abrahamsson

Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

March 20, 2016

A new film in the An Art Apart series has been finished: Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. How to make a film about someone who’s led such an adventurous life and been so productive for 50 years? Genesis probably deserves an entire series of documentaries, but I have at least tried to compress the general overview into one single film. Not easy! The result is now ready to be screened, and will be released on VOD and DVD in August. “To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is close to impossible. Not only because of the wide range of artistic disciplines, but also because of the timespan, since the mid 1960s to the present day, that has been saturated by hundreds of records, thousands of concerts, exhibitions, interviews, videos, spoken word performances, collages, sculptures, philosophy, cultural engineering, occultism and radical transgender concepts. A couple of descriptions are still valid after these 50...

The Mystery of Life – An Art Apart: Gustaf Broms

March 20, 2016

A new film in the An Art Apart series has been finished: The Mystery of Life – An Art Apart: Gustaf Broms. Gustaf is a dear old friend of mine and an amazing artist. His films, photos and performances defy “normal” contemporary art in many ways, and his entire attitude is a healthy example of what can be done with vision and ingenuity. The film is now available for screenings, and will be released on VOD and DVD in August. “Swedish artist Gustaf Broms has, since the early 1990s, developed a symbolic language in order to help him understand his own being. On an adventurous journey stretching over photography, filmmaking, sculpting, collaging, music making and on to performance art, his artworks and the process become pieces of a puzzle that constitute not only the human being called Gustaf Broms but also human life itself in general. The grand scale of Broms’ ambitions signals a willingness to share his highly experimental attitude and its findings with...

European circumambulations

March 20, 2016

A hectic time begins… Springtime means many micro-travels for me, and I hope to meet many old and new friends out there in Euroland. The related films and projects will be presented more in detail separately, so this little post is for overview only. April 1st: Berlin, DE. Screening/introduction of Sub Umbra Alarum Luna and talk: “Psychic States of Cinema”, at Neukölln’s finest: TOPICS. April 8th: Gothenburg, SE. Lecture on Carl Jung at the great bookstore Aniara. April 9th: Gothenburg, SE. Screening/introduction of Sub Umbra Alarum Luna at FOLK. April 14th: Copenhagen, DK. Screening/introduction of Silent Lips at Husets Biograf. April 15th: Copenhagen, DK. Screening/introduction of Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at Husets Biograf. April 16th: Copenhagen, DK. Lecture, Sexual dynamic polarity as a magical formula – Aleister Crowley and gender, at Nekropolis. April 23rd: Birmingham, UK. Screening of Sub Umbra Alarum Luna...

Canarian Canailleries & Diametric Imperialism

March 6, 2016

When traveling to exotic locations, you will very likely encounter the anti-exotic. It’s the blessing as well as the curse of the modern world. We are everywhere, whether we like it or not. And right now we’re on Lanzarote, the Canary Islands. The sun is out, the weather is nice. The bulk of the tourists seems to come from the British Isles, for good or, if you ask me, bad. There are more people in the shopping malls (containing the same stores as in every other shopping mall) than on the beautifully flower-adorned side streets and old harbour blocks which contain real traces of Canarian life. And the closer you get to the Ersatz apprehension of how things ”should” be, the more entertaining it gets. You get to see hole-in-the-wall restaurants with names like ”Idea Pizza” and store bannisters with impromptu poetry like ”Fish section – T-shirt”. Even fairly normal imperatives become twisted within this context: ”Try our suckling lamb!” Sometimes it’s merely a...