Karl Larsson (SE 1977) is an artist, poet and editor. These diverse positions have coalesced in an artistic practice that can be described as both editorial and literary, but that differs from writing in a conventional sense in its focus on spatial experience, embodiment and activism.
Form/Force, 2010 at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen.
Forming the basis of the exhibition is the first book FORM/FORCE by artist, poet and editor Karl Larsson who resides in Stockholm, Maastricht, and Brussels. FORM/FORCE presents a compilation of free associations on various cultural, contemporary historical, and political events. Bound together as poetry and written in alternating languages, various themes are united including the destruction of the gigantic Buddhas in Bamiyan by the Taliban, secret writings from the German Autumn, and constatives by Ian Curtis, the singer of the Dark Wave band Joy Division. Similar to a stream of consciousness, Larsson’s narration reproduces perceptions, thoughts, and reflections of the events, thus, as the narration also recounts, finding their way into consciousness.