Estrid Åkermark
A little spot where the young go to experience their first small taste of the night life Me? Well, I've never been there, perhaps, once, but I was so engulfed that I never made it to the door. "Hey, hey-look, Baby, they are playing our song!" And the crowd goes wild.
'The cat serves as the mascot/logo of the Flash-back forum, the biggest online forum in Sweden – 1 in 10 people have an account. Anonymous, known for its far right, misogynistic and racist content – it creates this one faceless creature.'
Malediction – 'the worst words revivify themselves within us, vampirically. Injurious speech echoes relentlessly, years after the occasion of its utterance, in the mind of the one at whom it was aimed: the bad word, splinter-like, pierces to lodge. "Am I that name; am I really one of those."*
* Denise Riley, Malediction, Impersonal Passions, Language as Affect, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005, pg 9/15
Exhibited works, degree exhibition
...And the crowd goes wild; My rebirth into the nightlife, 2021, Sculpture and Video installation Polylactide plastic, Plywood, Spray paint, Steel, Glass
Latest update: 2022-11-24