Mnemonic City (Göteborg/New York) (from the group show "Knock Knock Picnic") |
Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, 7/7-6/8 2006123456789101112131415161718192021songs |
3/8 The laptop computer was hooked up to the speakers by the western wall and the Elsewhere Right Now concert, the accapella concert by The New Noise Trio, the piece recorded in the gallery using the instruments built there,the recordings by Kartoffel Menschen Trio and the covers of songs by Marit Bergman, Jens Lekman and Fred Astereo were played through them. On the screen could be seen a movie of streaming water. The drawing of two houses surrounded by a forest was moved from the outer eastern wall to the western wall, below the cut-out drawing of a house with three people in a kitchen (one of them playing a guitar). The photograph of a lego-house was placed beneath the drawing of the forest, touching the ground. The drawing of a group of people in shops and restaurants (including one named "Gandhi") was placed overlapping the drawing of several different concerts (taking place at both the Bowery Ballroom, Trädgårn and on a pier). The drawing of some figures in a forest-like landscape with two buildings (one a circular one in brick) with the band Sonic Youth playing in the skies above was cut apart into three sections. One section, depicting the forest and the circular building, was placed above the drawing of the two buildings and the forest (connecting it with the drawing of the "Gandhi" restaurant). The other section (a building with two figures) was placed low on the wall, touching the floor, underneath the cut-out drawing of a house with three people in a kitchen. On the outer eastern wall the drawing of a figure in a park by a building with a statue in front of it and some word-balloons reading "There's another Lincoln statue by the same sculptor in Prospect Park" and "Where Lincoln once stood now Gandhi stands", was placed underneath the drawing of several angels and other figures, as well as a chalice and a house. A fragment of the cut-apart drawing of some figures and buildings in a forest landscape with the band Sonic Youth playing in the skies above was placed underneath the cut-out drawing of a band rehearsing on the moon. The fragment depicted the band Sonic Youth performing. The photograph of a combinded "peace" and "anarchy" sign, done on a floor in coffeegrinds, was placed on the inner eastern wall, to the left of the drawing of some instruments in a building and the text "The revolution starts on monday". A concert consisting of two short improvsed pieces (Light 1 & Light 2) was performed in the gallery by Jens Lekman, Terese Nordström and Hampus Pettersson using the instruments which had been built there. . . |
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