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johan hedbäck

shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out and makes himself an artificial night

About Me



My Interests


menagerie

elbe

I am trying to establish a contact with underlying forces which I can't define. They link everything in a way which obliterates the frontiers between nature outside - the landscape - and the nature of the psyche, what goes on inside our heads.

Hreinn Fridfinnsson

maifeld

It's hard for me to shut up.
It's the delirium that comes from the impossibility of really accomplishing anything.


Alberto Giacometti

the cranes

water circle

I had this dream
and in it
I wake up in this small house
somewhere in the tropics.
And it's very hot and humid.
And all these names and faces
are somehow endlessly moving through me.
Not that I see them exactly,
I'm not a person in this dream;
I'm a place.
Yeah... a kind of a... just a place.
And I have no eyes, no hands,
and all these names and faces just keep...
they keep passing through. And there's no... no scale.
Just a lot of details.
Just a slow accumulation of details.

from Laurie Anderson's United States Live

a slow accumulation of details

I'd like to meet:

[animation by antónio cidadão]

Music:

even in his heart the devil has to know the water level (S. Stevens)

Movies:



Art:

Eugène Atget, 1901 (Versailles)

Electric Chair, Andy Warhol, 1964 (from the Death and Disaster Series )

Monika Bielskyte, 2008

The Palace at 4 AM, Alberto Giacometti, 1933

Television:

(photograph by Lee Friedlander)

Books:


Art:
The Palace at 4 A.M. - Alberto Giacometti 1933
Untitled (Italy) - Francesca Woodman 1978-79
Paris Air - Marcel Duchamp 1919
Right After - Eva Hesse 1969
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) - Jackson Pollock 1950
Untitled - Felix Gonzales Torres 1992
moonriver 21 (from the good angels of fall.) - Monika Bielskyte 2006
The Cestello Annunciation - Sandro Botticelli 1489-90
Dust Breeding - Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp 1920
The Flagellation - Piero della Francesca 1445-50
Interior - Ola Billgren 1971
Bäume und Sträucher im Schnee - Caspar David Friedrich 1825
Untitled - Eva Hesse 1970
Untitled - Cy Twombly 1970
Black Square on a White Ground - Kasimir Malevich 1914–1915
From Robert Fludd’s "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia." 1617
The Bellman's Map from "The Hunting of the Snark" - Lewis Carroll 1876
"Ox and Herdsman Vanished" from "Ten Oxherding Pictures" - Shubun 15th century
L’Annunciata - Antonello da Messina 1475–1479
Your Sun Machine - Olafur Eliasson 1997
Splitting - Gordon Matta-Clark 1974
Mended Spiderweb #8 (Fish-Shaped Patch) - Nina Katchadourian 1998

My Blog

[a slow accumulation of details]


Posted by johan hedbäck on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:54:00 PST

jirí kovanda

I take some water from the river in my cupped hands and release it a few metres down the river. 11 May 1976, Strelecky Island, Prague...
Posted by johan hedbäck on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST

heart clinic, 21 april-30 april

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Posted by johan hedbäck on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:53:00 PST

spiral jetty

robert smithson's spiral jetty (1970), satellite view from 2002
Posted by johan hedbäck on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:05:00 PST

leo


Posted by johan hedbäck on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:24:00 PST

(the gift of sound) where the sun never goes down

Not everyone noticesAs things drift slowly in and out of focus.Being in the theatre is more important than knowing what is going on in the movie.The sound in the theatre is very loud.It builds up beac...
Posted by johan hedbäck on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:18:00 PST

the room at 1 am (ii)

(2 september 2006)
Posted by johan hedbäck on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:44:00 PST

the cranes


Posted by johan hedbäck on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:04:00 PST

winter


Posted by johan hedbäck on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:40:00 PST

three dogs

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Posted by johan hedbäck on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:54:00 PST