Carl Abrahamsson

A great review of Reasonances

June 26, 2015

The following review by Kadmus was originally posted on the Gods and Radicals website on June 25th, 2015. It is by far the longest and quite possibly the best review so far… And also including a piece of the Mega Golem’s heart… Many thanks for that! The Mega Golem: A Review of Carl Abrahamsson’s “Reasonances” Reasonances by Carl Abrahamsson, Scarlet Imprint 2014 If gods can die, leaving us to wander amidst their bones in the miasma of their defuse rot, then gods can be born. Neither ex nihilo nor ad nihilum travel the lives of the gods. Perhaps some gods find their birth in the work of the magician-artist. Amidst the conquest of noise over signal, the dispersion bred of accelerated techno-empirico-capitalist-fragmentation pushing all apart into isolated well-measured sameness, what can bring about a return of some sense of the whole? It is against a background of such considerations that the book Reasonances takes form. “Meta-programming through fiction and art is...

Nothing can turn into a void-trailer

June 20, 2015

The second film in the AN ART APART series has now been finished. It’s called Nothing Can Turn Into A Void and focuses on the British artist Vicki Bennett and her project People Like Us. 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. Nothing can turn into a void – An Art Apart: People Like Us (Sweden, 2015, 58 mins) Music by People Like Us. Edited by Henrik Møll & Vicki Bennett. Sound mix by Andrew McKenzie. Produced by Jakob Abrahamsson. Written, narrated and directed by Carl Abrahamsson. Nothing can turn into a void – An Art Apart: People Like Us (trailer) from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.

Lecture time in Copenhagen with Lea Porsager!

June 14, 2015

I will be lecturing in Copenhagen on June 25th. The title of the talk is Intuition as a State of Grace and deals with familiar themes: One key feature of both artistic processes and esoteric/spiritual/magical ones is the reliance on intuition as guide. But this is only one common denominator. Both areas are also filled with emotional filtering/compensation, intellectual evaluation and technical training/accomplishment. At a closer look, it’s almost as if it’s the mere terminology that sets “art” and “magic” apart from each other. However, one thing is crucial in any possible perspectives of separation or fusion: the human concept of “will”. In the magical process, will is integrated on an overall level: what one does in ceremony and ritual has ulterior goals ranked higher than the process itself. In art, the process and eventual results often remain within a confined sphere. Considering how many similarities there are between...

Wadling film at Klubb Mesmer, Stockholm

May 20, 2015

After a wonderful screening of my film Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt as an opening act for The Leather Nun’s concert at Södra Teatern in Stockholm on May 9th, the film strikes back again at Klubb Mesmer (Lindvallsgatan 11) on May 27th. It’s a great club evening together with Marja-Leena Sillanpää and American artist MV Carbon. Doors open at 8 pm and the entrance is a mere 50:- SEK. See you there!