Carl Abrahamsson

Chaos, coma & clueless condescendence

January 25, 2016

To say that the immigration crisis in Europe is a complex issue is an understatement. With masses of refugees from Syria, Northern Africa and other regions seeking shelter and asylum predominantly in Northern Europe, the countries involved have had to re-evaluate perspectives, ideals and, not least, capacities, and have been forced to come to some pretty (or not so pretty) rude awakenings. My thoughts on reactionary poly-tics and the complex situation in Sweden, where misdirected altruism has recently become a cynically condescending not-so-merry-go-round, have been published by ERIS Magazine right HERE!

A review of David Cronenberg’s “Consumed”

January 15, 2016

Here’s a little review of David Cronenberg’s novel Consumed that I wrote for the great new project ERIS Magazine. Enjoy!

Nothing can turn into a void online for free

January 7, 2016

My documentary about UK artist Vicki Bennett and her project People Like Us can now be seen for free via UBUWEB. The second film in the AN ART APART series is called Nothing Can Turn Into A Void and focuses on the British artist Vicki Bennett. Her work takes you on a journey into a world where literally anything can happen. Using her skills as an editor and a great sense of humor, she lets you roam through a world of imagination filled with contrasts and chance encounters between the past and the present. In performances, video work, music and collages, Bennett conveys that nothing is really what it seems. For more information about this and other films in the series, please visit Trapart Film.

An interview with Brian Williams of Lustmord (2011)

January 5, 2016

Brian Williams is a highly gifted sound person, armed with sensitive ears, ditto fingers, and a creative musical mind. Over the decades he has created a body of work that usually gets tagged “dark ambient”. For the lack of a better term, let’s stick with that for now. Williams’ music is certainly dark and its strong evocative potential (as in “stirring up inner images, fantasies and daydreams”) is there all along too. No wonder he’s been busy working on both independent horror films and occasional live performances in really odd places (The Church of Satan’s 40th birthday bash in Los Angeles 2006, for instance). After having worked with proto-experimentalist collective SPK in the early 80s, Brian Williams drifted on to an ambitious productivity under the Lustmord name, including many fruitful collaborations (with Jhon Balance, Jarboe, Clock DVA, Chris and Cosey, to mention but a few). Behind this almost legendary enigma we find the Brian Williams who is also a very normal human...