[curatorial.net] FACEHUG #1 - Launch & Reading by Karl Holmqvist

[Facehug Berlin]

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FACEHUG #1
Karl Holmqvist

Launch & Reading by Karl Holmqvist
Pro qm - Friday, 9 November, 20.30



FACEHUG is pleased to invite you to the launch of its premiere issue,
introducing Karl Holmqvist.

FACEHUG is an annual art publication based in Berlin, inviting international
artists to engage in solo projects of parasitic nature. Originially brought into
use as a derivate of the nickname for the Facehugger parasites featured in
Ridley Scott's notorious Alien-series, the name has as of lately been
implemented into urban slang as a loose signifier of an intimate passage
created in between two individuals by use of their limbs to block out
extraneous sources of light. The theory of relations brings us to the parasite
and vice versa.
FACEHUG uses parasitism as a reference to the emptying and filling up of graphic
identity, which is redesigned by the artists for each issue, and to
the nature of the
artistic process itself. The first issue, a "Leporello" foldout by
Karl Holmqvist
delineates the materialisation of a parasitic act as a work method based on the
principles of Brion Gysin's 'cut-up'-technique, according to which
visual elements
and text have been appropriated and reassembled into a sequential,
Janus-faced structure.
Image as communication vs. language as a picture. Karl Holmqvist has been doing
spoken word readings since the early 90s and in the course of the evening,
he will read excerpts from his new poems written for FACEHUG #1.





Contact: Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea
facehug at gmail.com
www.facehug.com


With kind support from Schwedische Botschaft, Berlin.
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