05.12.2010
Corner College, 6 pm

 

Poetical Assumption: Parrot (chuckle, cackle)
Karl Larsson

 

Poetry and sculpture. It seems like there is no “and” but a “/”, “?” or simply a void between them. 

Can it be, that to a certain extent, poetry and sculpture always speak of their own premises?
The gap between future possibilities, past achievements, present confusion?
Let’s, for once, assume that everyday life is fundamentally prosaic. And that society is haunted by the dream of accumulation, surge.
Surge (definition): a powerful rush of emotions, large economical increase, a great natural force such as waves or tide.
Like in any work of literary fiction, there must be a reason, a story to be told.
Do I sometimes feel like I want to be swept away, carried by a greater cause?
Do I feel ashamed of my own lazy body? Does it hurt to be at the wrong place at the wrong time?

(A short excerpt of Danielle Colloberts diary entry, October 1961, is read out loud).

 

Karl Larrson


Karl Larsson is an artist, poet and editor. He has published three books, Form/Force (OEI Editör 2007), Nightsong (OEI Editör 2009) and Parrot (Paraguay Press 2010), in which a methodological poetry-essay form is used to investigate the book as a format and the act of reading as a presumbly activistic position. His sculptural works are presented as installations, often addressing literary issues such as translation, solitude, embodiment. Recent exhibitions: A travers l’histoire (Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest), Form/Force (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen), Parrot (Index, Stockholm), Modernautställningen 2010 (Moderna Museet, Stockholm).