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| There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In August 2003, Lampo invited Swedish artist CM von Hausswolff to do a project specific to Chicago. Intrepid traveler that he is, Hausswolff ascended to the top of the 100-story John Hancock Building and collected sounds from the open-air observation deck. While taking in the sights, he recorded building vibrations, passing breezes and overheard speech from tourists. Later, in his Stockholm studio, he added a series of feedback rotations to suggest crows (guardians or | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hausswolff's new piece is his rumination on security and paranoia. What makes us safe? Is it better to dwell in a cave or in a skyscraper penthouse? Could be another lecture on sound and architecture. We hear a secret gastrointestinal message. Say what?! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lampo and partner WhiteWalls have published a book of photographs by Hausswolff—separate from, but related to the "No Crows" CD. "Red Empty (Chicago 2003)" is the latest in a series of urban-centered works spanning from Bangkok to Santa Fe in which the artist set 1000-watt red spotlights against the architecture of run-down, abandoned buildings. While in town recording sound material for "No Crows," Hausswolff (and a small but fearless crew) spent nights driving around the city, identifying forgotten buildings. Once a site was selected, the building was washed in red light, and Hausswolff quickly made his photographs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sites include a gas station, church, supermarket, housing project, warehouse, correction facility and a hot dog stand. The series of spectral monochromatic images suggest Hausswolff's interest in intermediate realms. Selected images below: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This was the first of his "Red Empty" projects and his first that did not result in a long-term installation, but rather a series of short events that exist only as photographs. Images were shown in a series of Cibachrome prints at Brändström & Stene, Stockholm in April 2004. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hausswolff's other red light architecture works include "Red Pool" (Cities on the Move, Bangkok, 1999), "Red Night" (SITE Santa Fe, 1999), "Red Code" (CCA Kitakyushu, 2001) and "Red Mersey" (Liverpool Biennial, 2004). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Carl Michael von Hausswolff (b. 1956, Linköping) is a composer, visual artist and curator based in Stockholm. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, architectural space and paranormal electronic interference. Major exhibitions include Documenta X (1997), the Johannesburg Biennial (1997), Sound Art - Sound as Media at ICC in Tokyo (2000), the Venice Biennale (2001, 2003 and 2005) and Portikus, Frankfurt (2004). Hausswolff received a Prix Ars Electronica award for Digital Musics in 2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| He is co-monarch (with Leif Elggren) of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, all areas of no-man's land, territories between national boundaries on both land and sea, digital and mental spaces. This nation has its own national anthem, flag, coat of arms, currency, citizens and ministers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lampo first presented CM von Hausswolff in February 2001, when he performed "Circulating over Square Oceans" with sonar, radar, oscillators and microphones. In August 2003 Hausswolff screened his video project "Hashima" at Lampo. Hausswolff premiered "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" at Lampo in March 2005. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" and "Red Empty (Chicago 2003)" are made possible in part with support from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Governor's International Arts Exchange Program of the Illinois Arts Council. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building Edition limited to 500 CDs Lampo 001 Nov. 2005 $15 
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Red Empty (Chicago 2003) 128 pp, softcover 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches 56 color plates 0945323042 Fall 2005 $22
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