Facehug #1
Karl Holmqvist
FACEHUG is pleased to invite you to the launch of its premiere issue by Karl Holmqvist.
FACEHUG is an annual art publication based in Berlin,inviting international artists to engage in solo projects of parasitic nature. Originially brought into use as aderivate of the nickname for the Facehugger parasites featured in Ridley Scott's notorious Alien-series, the name has as of lately been implemented into urban slang as a loose signifier of an intimate passage created in between two individuals by use of their limbs to block out extraneous sources of light. The theory of relations brings us to the parasite and vice versa. FACEHUG uses parasitism as a reference to the emptying and filling up of graphic identity,which is redesigned by the artists for each issue, and to the nature of the artistic process itself. The first issue, a "Leporello" foldout by Karl Holmqvist delineates the materialisation of a parasitic act as a work method based on the principles of Brion Gysin's'cut-up'-technique, according to which visual elements and text have been appropriated and reassembled into a sequential, Janus-faced structure. Image as communication vs. language as a picture. Karl Holmqvist has been doing spoken word readings since the early 90s and in the course of the evening, he will read excerpts from his new poems written for FACEHUG #1.
"Diese Sprachzange fasst nichts, dieser Sprachbohrer kann keine Hohlstelle erzeugen,wo etwas eingeschraubt werden könnte, dieser Sprachschraubenzieher holt nichts heraus."