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In Sweden in the Seventies when I grew up, there were no trippy cartoons on the state owned tv, but plenty of documentaries. The most boring we used to call counter top, or 'dish-bench' realism. I think now that this was a version of psychedelia, or an expanded mind-frame. Psychedelic culture was to a large extent created in America. The conflation of the two, makes up the title: Household Psychedelics. An entire wall, covered by logos in black and white from budget supermarket-chains in an eternal repetetive and halucinatory pattern by Gunilla Klingberg, a beyond weird wanna-be-realist food shopping experience. By Karl Holmqvist, there is a DVD, with him reading, well known pop lyrics in his drowsy monontonous voice, like the worst kind of voice over to some socialistic consumer enlightenement program, soothing... There was a plant with a low volume whistling loudspeaker, by Peter Coffin: "Sharing (For an Office Environment)". The plant is made to feel 'at home' or tendered for in what would be an anonymous space. It shows a more idealistic side of the trip. A part of a larger installation by Justin Lowe took up the floor space in the second room; circular cushions made of thrift store clothes. On the wall in this room was Katarina Löfström's video Hang Ten Sunset. This video is named after an american surf clothing line in the seventies. We used to wear these clothes to counter our black and white tv experiences in Sweden, longing for Donald Duck on acid. Andreas & Fredrika made the graphics for the invites, the wall signs, the list of work. I invited them to make a graphic intervetion, they created a sheet of refridgerator magnets, one can play with to space out one of those days the dishes seems too real to handle. I made a bunch of large sets and put them up in the corridor stretching across the space. My contribution; 'Light and Smoke for my Kitchen', a smoke and light show in my kitchen, cut off from visitors, though visibly something was going on, exclusively for the kitchen. Life goes on elsewhere! (images to come) |