Mnemonic City (Göteborg/New York) (from the group show "Knock Knock Picnic") |
Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, 7/7-6/8 2006123456789101112131415161718192021songs |
20/7 The laptop computer was hooked up to the speakers by the western wall and the Elsewhere Right Now concert was played through them. On the screen could be seen a slideshow of photographs from the concert. The drawing of the interior of a room was removed from the outer eastern wall, where it had been placed underneath one of the "echo"-graffiti photographs, and instead placed on the western wall, to the left of the drawing of some figures in a bar. Another, newly made, cut-out drawing of a house with some figures in a kitchen and an outdoors patio covered with grapevines was placed above the previous cut-out drawing on the same theme. Added to this cluster of drawings (and placed above the photograph of the grapevine-covered patio) was another one depicting a figure with a word-balloon containing the text "Jag vet att det vänder", surrounded by a large mass of jagged lines. A drawing of a head and some angular lines, which had been laying on the floor by the western wall (where it had been covered by coffeegrinds and stepped on), was placed on the wall above the photograph of the tour-bus with the pirate-flags outside the Boredoms/Lightning Bolt show. The drawings of a figure in the subway (with word balloons saying "And if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side well the pleasure, the privelidge is mine, there is a light that never goes out") and of a Quiz-night at a bar were removed. The drawing of a figure laying in a couch listening to a stereo (with the head of Morrissey floating above it) was moved to a position right beneath the drawing of a vaguely sketeched head and a coffee-cup. A cut-out, fairly abstract drawing was placed above the drawing of two figures at a Virgin Mary shrine placed on the eastern wall (by the cut-out drawing of a rehearsal space). A photograph of a t-shirt with a DK-logo (representing the punk band Dead Kennedys) was placed on the left-hand side of the cut-out drawing. Another photograph, of the interior of a room with guitar-effect pedals, drawings, a lamp and a TV, was placed on the wall between the drawing of a group of people in an apartment and the cut-out drawing of a rehearsal space. On the eastern wall in the outer gallery a cut-out drawing, which had been laying on the floor (also having been covered by coffeegrinds and stepped on), was attached to the wall between the drawing of some figures and buildings in a forest-like landscape with the band Sonic Youth in the sky, and the drawing of four figures outside of a cafe, with a sleeping figure in the sky. The drawing of a figure in a subway was placed on the right-hand side of the drawing of some heads and figures in a landscape of jagged lines, buildings, tram/subway-lines and thundering clouds. A photograph of a large snowflake-like christmas-decoration hanging next to street signs reading "Brighton Beach Avenue" was placed above this cluster of drawings. Drawings were cut out of the photocopied sketchbook-pages and scattered around the floor of the gallery. |
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