Carl Abrahamsson
Jag är som flugan på väggen – En film om Lars Sundestrand
Carl Abrahamsson, Sverige, 2020. 57 min. Medverkande: Lars Sundestrand, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Annika von Hausswolff och Robert Hurula.
Genom sitt fanzine FUNTIME (1978-1983) blev fotografen Lars Sundestrand synonym med den tidens punk- eller “gör det själv”-anda och estetik. FUNTIME blev snabbt Sveriges mest kända och inflytelserika fanzine. Efter denna explosivt kreativa period jobbade Lars Sundestrand vidare som fotograf för en mängd dagstidningar, och även som teaterfotograf på Göteborgs Stadsteater, GöteborgsOperan, Västanå Teater och många fler. Under färdens gång har han gjort över 80 fotoböcker, bland annat om/med Ebba Grön, Throbbing Gristle, Hurula – och hela nio böcker om och med Freddie Wadling! Endast ett fåtal av dem har distribuerats eller ens visats upp.
I filmen JAG ÄR SOM FLUGAN PÅ VÄGGEN berättar Lars Sundestrand själv om vad som driver honom att skapa nya bilder och bokprojekt. Vänner som Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Annika von Hausswolff och Robert Hurula berättar också i filmen om samarbeten, inspirationer och om Lars Sundestrand som person.
I filmen visas unika fotografier av artister som Freddie Wadling, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Curtis, Sex Pistols, Cabaret Voltaire, The Clash och The Jam. I samarbete med Lars Sundestrand erbjuder Trapart Editions vissa av dessa fotografier till salu. Gå till ART/EDITIONS och PHOTOGRAPHY.
Sinclair & Lucas
Sound 23
Vanessa Sinclair & Douglas Lucas: “Sound 23”
An evocative collaboration between Vanessa Sinclair and American sound artist Douglas Lucas. This album contains eight tracks that weave Sinclair’s cut-up poems into revealing packages of sonorous delight. Sometimes harsh and aggressive, sometimes soft and alluring; always seductive in their joint efforts at upheaving the rational mind and its many intellectual accomplices. After the cataclysmic clash of rational refusal, we are here left with the purely sensual delight that comes from giving in to what random chance suggests, and what spontaneous creation actually brings.
The standard edition consists of a CD, an information sheet, three reproduced collages, one reproduced page from Vanessa Sinclair’s remix of Carl Abrahamsson’s novel Mother, Have A Safe Trip, and two photographs of the artists. Numbers 8-23.
The deluxe edition consists of a box containing a CD, an information sheet, three reproduced collages, three reproduced pages from Vanessa Sinclair’s remix of Carl Abrahamsson’s novel Mother, Have A Safe Trip, and four photographs of the artists, plus one original collage, signed by Vanessa Sinclair. Numbers 1-7.
A collaboration with Highbrow Lowlife (catalog number HILO-048). For more information about their other releases, please visit:
http://highbrow-lowlife.com/
https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com/
Sinclair & Abrahamsson
Mementeros
Last year saw the release of the Sinclair & Abrahamsson film “Mementeros – A turbulent thrust into a void of substance.” It’s a mind-bending super 8 extravaganza into a world of deep eroticism, transcending time and space and evoking all your innermost secret fantasies. Mixing vintage super 8 footage with newly shot material, the film brings a psycho-sexual impact that paralyses the rational mind and opens the floodgates of libido-drenched impulses. One considerable part of the overall “Mementeros” effect is the merging of the cut-ups of Vanessa Sinclair and the music of Carl Abrahamsson. Now their soundtrack is finally released on CD in an edition made in collaboration between Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions, strictly limited to 23 copies.
The signed standard edition consists of a CD with the soundtrack, an information sheet, two reproduced collages, and four photographs of the artists. Numbers 8-23.
The signed deluxe edition consists of a box containing a CD with the soundtrack, an information sheet, two reproduced collages, and four photographs of the artists, plus one set of 13 photographs (a full miniature reproduction set of the artists’ “Mementeros” exhibition in Switzerland in 2019), plus a DVD with the “Mementeros” film. Numbers 1-7. PLEASE NOTE: This edition has been sold out.
Please note: some of the original cut-up-collages for the Swiss exhibition are still available from Trapart: https://store.trapart.net/item/4
Please also note: this soundtrack will not be made available on any streaming or digital sales service. It will only available in this CD edition.
