Carl Michael von Hausswolff   Establishing Communication with the Fallen Angel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn including radar technology and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena)   31 may through 1 july, 2002 opening friday 31 may, 7-9pm gallery 2       invite image                 establishing communication with the fallen angel in williamsburg, brooklyn, 2002 installation view               establishing communication with the fallen angel in williamsburg, brooklyn, 2000 installation view (detail) of live feed radar projection       press release Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born 1956 in Linkoping, Sweden and currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a visual artist and a recording artist. His work has been shown in Venice (Nordic Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2001), Kassel (documenta X), Tokyo (ICC), Paris (Musee d'Art Moderne) and at the biennials in Santa Fe, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Limerick. His music is released by such labels as RasterNoton (Berlin), Ash International (London), Table of the Elements (Atlanta) and Die Stadt (Bremen). For this first show in New York City he will be exhibiting a piece called "Establishing Communication With The Fallen Angel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn" including radar technology and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena). Collaboratively, Hausswolff and Elggren have worked on various projects, including the 2001 Venice Biennale Nordic Pavilion, and the on-going Elgaland-Vargaland, a kingdom over which they are kings. Despite the fact that the kingdom exists only in the imagination of the kings and their 500 or so citizens, they have Elgaland-Vargaland passports, national banknotes, stamps, holidays, a flag and other symbols of nationhood. In a time of increasing nationalism, Elgaland-Vargerland [sic] understands itself to be independent of time and space and propagates a notion of agonistic citizenship, which...defin[es] itself outside the horizon of territory.... (Jens Hoffmann, Flash Art, May/June 2001) Jens Hoffmann cho[se] to write about Elgaland-Vargerland [sic] because of its encouragement to finally admit that the common beliefs and collective certainties of every day life are just as made up as this country and its two kings. As playful as this project might appear upon first glance,...it also proposes a serious look upon the organization of reality and moreover human mechanisms within society at large. For the 2001 Nordic Pavilion, Hausswolff and Elggren collaborated with three other artists, Tommi Gršnlund, Petteri Nisunen and Anders Tomren. While each artist made individual contributions to it, the pavilion was conceived as a whole. No part of the exhibition was credited to any individual artist. The pavilion was one of the most precise and manifesto-like reflections on the new position of artists today. ...Instead of combining individual concepts, the pavilion produced a multiplicity of singularities.... (Robert Fleck, Frame news, 2 / 2001)       also on view, the ever-expanding Flat Files, featuring works of 650+ artists.
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