Informed by the strategies of Dada, Fluxus, and beat writing, Berlin-based Karl Holmqvist fuses concrete poetry with cut-up techniques in anti-hierarchical monochromatic texts often presented as self-effacing, uneasy, live performances. In What's My Name? the text slowly reveals itself as the modified but recognizable lyrics to pop songs. Rejecting the authenticity of creativity and the idolatry of pop celebrity, the Swedish-born Holmqvist prioritizes the ''cover'' version, and subtly mocks the machismo of pop celebrity with the bizarre interventions of his performance works. This publication contains 66 poems, reworking the lyrics of artists that range from Grace Jones to Chicks on Speed and The Rolling Stones.

Karl Holmqvist: What's My Name?

Karl Holmqvist

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Through a simultaneous process of building and un-building, re-cycling and improvising, Klara Liden's psychologically laden films, actions and structures reveal the hidden aggression and potential rebellion that rests under the surface of our cities."

Klara Lidn: Morderna Museet.

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Karl Holmqvist: What's My Name?

Klara Lidn: Morderna Museet.