GÖTEBORGS FRIA INTERVIEW

  [The following is an interview with me posted in the Swedish online magazine Göteborgs Fria on March 25th, 2015. Photograph by Bella Lassker Wadling.] Kärleksfullt porträtt av Wadling Carl Abrahamsson och Freddie Wadling lärde känna varandra på 80-talet. De förenades av intresset för skräpkultur, ockultism, musik och framför allt film. Deras samtal och tre Blue For Two-låtar blev till filmen Love begins to write a book. 27 år senare återskapar Abrahamsson och Wadling det hela, med samma frågor och samma låtar. Författaren och filmaren Carl Abrahamsson hittade en super-8-film från 1988 där han intervjuar Freddie Wadling. Kortfilmen med titeln Love Begins To Write A Book innehöll även musik med Freddies dåvarande band Blue for two. Tjugosju år senare återskapar Carl Abrahamsson filmen genom att ställa samma frågor till Freddie som i den första filmen, dessutom spelar Blue for two samma musik, inspelad på Nefertiti i Göteborg förra sommaren. – När jag dammade av den gamla filmen...

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A Wadling Screening in Gothenburg

  On Saturday the 28th of March at 9 pm, my film “Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt” will be shown at FOLK in Gothenburg. The screening will be introduced by me and Freddie Wadling. To book a ticket, please e-mail: joachim AT folkgbg.se For more information about the film, please go here! Thank you.

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Wandering, wondering

  We are bipedal animals coming from a fight-or-flight evolutionary process. A relevant question these days is how technology and our contemporary, saturated lifestyle will affect the evolution to come. Technology is already so integrated on basically all levels that kids have no chance to escape even if they wanted to. And how could they want something they never knew was there in the first place? We no longer walk for hours on end, we use vehicles. When the need arises to train our bodies, we don’t exercise using the body itself but rather allow machines and technology that privilege too. In so many ways, we have already gone from being anthropocentric to technocentric. Homo Roboticus.     I have moaned about these things and developments in many different places (for the most recent offering, please have a look at my book Reasonances from Scarlet Imprint). However, as with many strong sentiments bordering on idealistic naïveté, perhaps it’s best to...

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