APARTE
FESTIVAL
FOR
EXPERIMENTAL
ARTS
TØNSBERG NORWAY
4.11–5.11 2022
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV]
APARTE 22
The inauguration of the consulate at Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg 5.11
Elgaland-Vargaland is an art project by Swedish artists Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren. It incorporates all boundaries between other nations as well as Digital Territory and other states of existence. The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] were proclaimed on May 27th 1992. Various sections and aspects of life were annexed and proclaimed as the territory of the infant state. Elgaland-Vargaland consist of all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital. Every time you travel somewhere, and every time you enter another form, such as the dream state, you visit Elgaland-Vargaland. In its 30-year of existence, the project has – through its humorous approach to various government functions – opened a number of relevant questions: what does it mean to be a member of a nation, who has the right to occupy private parts of one's life and mind, how far does political power reach, etc.
Hausswolff and Elggren print their own currency, official stamps and issue passports to new citizens, as well as establish Elgaland-Vargaland embassies and consulates all around the world, which they will do at Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg during APARTE festival 2022.
The Consulate will be open on 5 November at one to four o’clock in the afternoon.
Program to be announced later.
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Hausswolff and Elggren print their own currency, official stamps and issue passports to new citizens, as well as establish Elgaland-Vargaland embassies and consulates all around the world, which they will do at Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg during APARTE festival 2022.
The Consulate will be open on 5 November at one to four o’clock in the afternoon.
Program to be announced later.
Leif Elggren was born in 1950 in Linköping, Sweden. Active since the late 1970s, Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside-down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons.
Together with Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from Norway).
Leif Elgren website
Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. Since the end of the 70s, Hausswolff has worked as a composer using recording technology as his main instrument and as a visual artist using light projections, film/video and still photography as well as other media. He has exhibited at dOCUMENTA (Kassel), the biennials in Venice, Moscow, Liverpool, Istanbul, Sarajevo etc. and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nicosia, Kaliningrad, Tokyo, London, New York, Philadelphia, etc. His music has been played in festivals such as Sonar (Barcelona), CTM (Berlin), L’audible (Paris), el niche Aural (Mexico City), MUTEK, (Montreal) etc. and released works on record by labels like RasterNoton (Berlin), Touch (London), Pomperipossa (Göteborg) and iDeal (Göteborg). He also performed at Aparte Festival in 2021.
He recently curated the 2nd part the sound-installation FREQ_OUT named freq_wave in co-operation with Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary and collaborates with artist Leif Elggren, EVP re-searcher Michael Esposito, composers Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Mark Fell, Jim O’Rourke, author Leslie Winer and as Dark Morph (with Jónsi of Sigur Rós). He has also collaborated with Pan sonic, The Hafler Trio, Organum and PHAUSS.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff website
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] website
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Together with Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from Norway).
Leif Elgren website
Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. Since the end of the 70s, Hausswolff has worked as a composer using recording technology as his main instrument and as a visual artist using light projections, film/video and still photography as well as other media. He has exhibited at dOCUMENTA (Kassel), the biennials in Venice, Moscow, Liverpool, Istanbul, Sarajevo etc. and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nicosia, Kaliningrad, Tokyo, London, New York, Philadelphia, etc. His music has been played in festivals such as Sonar (Barcelona), CTM (Berlin), L’audible (Paris), el niche Aural (Mexico City), MUTEK, (Montreal) etc. and released works on record by labels like RasterNoton (Berlin), Touch (London), Pomperipossa (Göteborg) and iDeal (Göteborg). He also performed at Aparte Festival in 2021.
He recently curated the 2nd part the sound-installation FREQ_OUT named freq_wave in co-operation with Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary and collaborates with artist Leif Elggren, EVP re-searcher Michael Esposito, composers Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Mark Fell, Jim O’Rourke, author Leslie Winer and as Dark Morph (with Jónsi of Sigur Rós). He has also collaborated with Pan sonic, The Hafler Trio, Organum and PHAUSS.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff website
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland [KREV] website
