Carl Abrahamsson

“Booklore” is now published by Zagava

March 29, 2016

I’m extraordinarily happy to be squeezed in between the covers of this great new anthology about the love of / for / with books: BOOKLORE, published by Zagava. And yes, you can order it now! RIGHT HERE! Join me and Avalon Brantley, Brian Catling, Brendan Connell, Quentin S. Crisp, Richard Gavin, Martin Hayes, Colin Insole, Timothy J. Jarvis, Andrew Liles, Chris Mikul, Daniel Mills, Damian Murphy, Reggie Oliver, Thomas Phillips, Ray B. Russell, Michael Siefener, Charles Schneider, Thomas Stromsholt, Supervert, Mark Vale, as we share our secrets and favourites! “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a...

Psycho-analysis, art & the Occult

March 20, 2016

Together with the American psycho-analyst Vanessa Sinclair, I’m organising a three day symposium in London in May. It will be a wonderful event, with panels, an art exhibition, musical entertainment and a screening of my film Sub Umbra Alarum Luna. It’s being held at the beautiful Candid Arts Centre. I would strongly recommend that you get your tickets for this bonanza-extravaganza soon, as it will sell out. All the relevant details and information can be found RIGHT HERE!

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...