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Karl Holmqvist
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Karl Holmqvist

Place: Café Restaurante El Parque

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For Manifesta 8, Karl Holmqvist makes use of some of the techniques discovered by the poet, painter and fervent inventor Brion Gysin (1916¿1986), who spent eight years in Tangier, Morocco in the 1950s. Using the format of printed posters and text works, Holmqvist investigates how such formal elements as graphic repetition can take language outside the constricts of time. He also links Arabic calligraphic tradition, for instance, to the visual arts. Holmqvist¿s installation in El Parque Cafeteria in Cartagena functions as an anteroom to the amphitheatre, where there will be live readings of his work.



AUTO-biography

Karl Holmqvist, 1964, Västerås, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin.
Crucified to a Volkswagen is a place to start, a running train, information overload, a mistrust in the over-efficiency of printed language, spoken language on TV, art-theoretical language, in it being perhaps not in the right hands. At all. Reading and writing associated with authority, conservation, rule following and rule breaking. Like traffic rules. Think different, communication technologiies for getting in touch with self. Start with the mind. Writing poetry as an act of defiance, somewhere between lettrisme and autism, making books because they are beautiful and can fit in your hand, whole worlds developing from one page. Spoken word readings are about sharing, communality, feelings as a common ground. Objects films etc. occupy the space but always go back tto the position of the artist him- or herself, nailed, as it were to the speeding car.


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Office Manifesta 8 in Murcia
Pabellón 5, Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería
C/ Madre Elisea Oliver Molina, s/n
30002-Murcia
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Office Manifesta 8 in Cartagena " Museo Regional de Arte Moderno" (MURAM)
Plaza de la Merced, 15-16
30202 Cartagena

Office "Quiosco del puerto"
Muelle Alfonso XII
Cartagena 30201

Office Manifesta Foundation of Amsterdam
Prinsengracht 175 hs 1015 DS
Amsterdam
Holanda
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