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| "Parasites, Influences and
Transformations 2 / Parasitic Electronic Seance IV"
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Michael von Hausswolff & Peter
Hagdahl
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Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Peter Hagdahl's contribution is
an even more mysterious evocation of the "spirituality"
of sound. As the title, <Parasites>, Influences, and Transformations
2/Parasitic Electronic Seance IV suggests, this work is conceived
as a seance that calls up spirits through electrical wires, electrical
devices, the internet, and the presence of light and viewers. In this
work the transformations of sound and image and the projection of
messages are all the work of the ghosts of electricity and sound.
In the past, Hausswolff has created comically cruel projects that
observe viewers reactions to physical stimulation and psychological
disturbances through sound. For example, in his 1997 contribution
to Documenta X he built a garden fence out of live electric wire connected
to a power source in a building overlooking the garden. Viewers who
touched the fence received a shock and suddenly pulled their hands
away or bent backward. The sound of gunshots was broadcast periodically
in the space to make the people in the garden reacting to the electric
shocks look as if they were being shot. The whole scene was visible
from the building in which the power source was installed so that
other viewers could watch the goings on like a play. Together with
Swedish sound artist Lief Elggren, Hausswolff founded the imaginary
country of ELGRAND - VARGALAND, and has also worked on projects to
collect the voices of the dead and of alien life forms which are said
to exist outside the range of human hearing. But none of these activities
can be dismissed as a joke. In fact very little is known about the
influence of sound on the human spirit. When we enter the seance in
this work and see the sounds and images in the exhibit transform themselves
in response, as long as we are unable to sense events that may actually
be occurring outside the range of our perception, who can say that
these are not the doings of ghosts?
(HATANAKA Minoru / Assistant Curator, ICC)
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Jan.28 (Friday) - Mar.12 (Sunday), 2000
[Finished] 
Artists Talks
Performances
