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RMIT welcomes distinguished Swedish musician and artist
Swedish audio-visual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff arrives in Australia for the
first time to embark upon new creative work and presentation as guest of RMIT
University’s School of Media and Communication and the City of Melbourne.
He will give a public lecture on his practice as a sound artist at RMIT’s Kaleide
Theatre; an informal performance/installation and reception in Avoca, in
conjunction with his residency at The Avoca Project; and will create a visual art
installation for the Mockridge Fountain at Melbourne City Square.
This installation will continue his “Red” series for large architectural spaces, with
previous works from the series shown in Santa Fe, Liverpool, Luxembourg,
Kaliningrad, Changmai, Zagreb and Chicago.
Public lecture
Friday, 5 March, 5.30 – 6.30pm
RMIT University, Kaleide Theatre, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Free
Performance installation
Saturday, 13 March, 8.30pm
The Avoca Watford House, 16 Dundas Street, Avoca. Presented by the School of
Media and Communication, RMIT. Free
Mockridge Fountain installation “Red Fragments (12 out of millions)”
(Opening date and time TBC)
For interviews or comment: Professor Lyndal Jones (03) 9925 2880 or 0425
745 868.
For general media enquiries: RMIT School of Media and Communication,
Wendy Little, Communications Officer, (03) 9925 3933 or 0418 137 697.
BIOGRAPHY
Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linkšping, Sweden. He lives and
works in Stockholm. He hit the New York Times in 2007 not for the three times he
represented Sweden at the Venice Biennale, but for his unofficial collaboration
there with Lief Elggren, “annexing” Venice’s island of the dead.
While Hausswolff has worked internationally as a conceptual artist since the 1970s,
he also has a vast audience in the music scene for his compositions using the tape
recorder as his main instrument. In 2002, he received a Prix Ars Electronica award
for Digital Music.
An architectural work he made in Thailand in 2005 is dedicated to Friedrich
Jürgenson (1903-1987), the pioneer of EVP (electronic voice phenomena) on
whose work Hausswolff is an internationally acknowledged expert.
17 February, 2010
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