IASPISH (2011)
Text: Jonatan Habib Engqvist
Together with artist and resident Klas Eriksson, Iaspis invites you to an investigation of the intersection between football-culture, club-culture and art-world-culture. Eriksson´s interest in control, power and limits is often expressed though performance, video and sculpture. With mass-culture as his point of departure Klas peruses questions of authenticity, power and artistic expression.
On February 3rd, the football arena and the studio at Maria skolgata will be transposed to the club environment at Strand. It will be a mix of performance, grandstand and football chants, techno, bass and bar – where football supporters, theorists and endurance clubbers step out on the same floor.
Participants: Klas Eriksson (artist, Stockholm), Dave Allen (artist, Glasgow), Jimmy Heino (Dj, Stockholm), Detrevni (Dj, LD50, Stockholm), Karin Gille (artist and DJ, Sweden). a.o.
David Allen is born in Glasgow, lives and works in Stockholm. His performance Inverted oh-ton manipulates recordings by three Neue Music compositions: Piano Piece #4 by Frederic Rzewski, da by Eckart Beinke and Siebenschlaf by Kirsten Reese. Originally recorded by the Oh-Ton Ensemble in Oldenburg, Allen has inverted and transferred the sound tracks to vinyl. He will attempt to synchronize the inversion with the original and thereby create silence as the tracks neutralize each other.
Detrevni alias Jonathan Arve is a Dj in LD50, an up-and-coming rave organizer. Detrevni will deliver Night Fullon Psytrance – harder and faster than Psychedelic trance, but more melodic. The sub-genre Deeper constrains more “events” with stronger peaks and drops, and more variation. It has developed from Psytrance, which, in turn derives from Goatrance. The sub-culture can be seen as a kind of hippie culture in a modern context, powerful music with allot of action and very dancer-friendly. www.detrevni.se
Klas Eriksson sees the Brittish grandstand culture and various forms of techno-music in the same way as different movements fine art and theory. In his performance No one likes us – We don´t care he takes the role of the DJ and mixes everything associated to football culture – the songs, the raw language, police reports, Britt-pop, passion and violence. The performance has previously been performed in galleries and public space. IASPISH takes his residency as a point of departure and moves the artistic discourse to the club environment. www.klaseriksson.org
Karin Gille is educated Konstfack U-C of Arts, Craft and Design, at the department for Ceramics and Glas. 1991 was an intense year ofr radical feminists in USA. Fortunate circumstances such as a flourishing DIY-culture in Seattle and Olympia where young women met and found means to express their feminst thoughts and views led to the rise of the Riot Grrrl-genre, with fanzines, demonstrations against the right-wing attitude to sexual harrasment fopr instance.They were also fed up with the mail-dominated underground and punk scense of the time. Bands like Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, L7, Bratmobile, 7 Year Bitch had a common goal – Revolution Grrrl Style Now! A few years later, 1995, the revolution had reached Stockholm for sure. Karin was barely 16 and spent hours in cafées with a wider view and harcore anarcho-feminsts. It was a time of squats, burning pornography, demonstrations and choclate cake by a tape-recorder rasping girlpunk.
Jimmy Heinonen was active in the dawn of Stockholm´s rave-scene, from the 1990´s and onward. During the evening Heinonen will dust off his vinyl accompanied by smoke machines and stroboscopes.
Contact Iaspis project manager Jonatan Habib Engqvist for further information, [email protected]