Carl Michael von Hausswolff
was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm.
Since the end of the 1970s, Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography.
His audio compositions from 1979 to 1992, constructed almost exclusively from basic material taken from earlier audiovisual installations and performance works, consists essentially of complex macromal drones with a surface of aesthetic elegance and beauty. In later works, Hausswolff has retained the aesthetic elegance and the drone and added a purely isolationistic sonic condition to composing. Between 1996 and 2008 Hausswolff has boiled away even more ornamental meat from the bones: his works are pure, intuitive studies of electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a conceptual stringent cryption. Lately he has also developed a more conceptual form of audio art overlooking subjects such as architecture and urbanism, rats and maggots. Collaborators include Graham Lewis, Jean-Louis Huhta, Pan sonic, Russell Haswell, Zbigniew Karkowski, Erik Pauser, The Hafler Trio and John Duncan. His music and sound art can be found on record labels such as Ash International, Laton, Oral, RasterNoton, Firework Edition, SubRosa and Die Stadt. His music is published by Touch Music, London.
Hausswolff's music has been performed throughout Europe and in North America and Asia in festivals such as Sonar, Electrograph and I.D.E.A.L. In these concerts a very physical, almost brutal, side of Hausswolff’s aesthetics has blended with a droned and polyfrequential beauty. The audience very often fall into a form of trance, dosing away in their seats. Other times people experiencing the events has thanked him “for the massage” or has expressed a “feeling that the flesh came off the bones” due to the vibrations of the low frequencies used.
Hausswolff's audiovisual works have also found outlets in pictorial art. His "Red" series using red lights in various architectural and geographical spaces has shown a rather critical side of his works. In Santa Fé an abandoned cemetery was lit up in the night time by 20 000 watts (Red Night, 1999); in Liverpool the river Mersey was treated (Red Mersey, 2004); in Luxembourg a huge building used for repairing trains was treated (Red Sky Saw, 2007); in Kaliningrad various cages and houses were lit up (Red Zoo, 2006)and in Chiangmai, Zagreb, Rijeka, Chicago abandoned houses around the cities was lighted up and photographed (Red Empty, 2003-2004). His interest in architecture and topography has also resulted in the films “Hashima, Japan 2002” and “Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt, 2005” made in collaboration with Thomas Nordanstad.
In 1997 he launched a series of works under the title "Operations of Spirit Communication". This work, inspired by Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) techniques, was combining and merging sound and vision using analogue and digital technologies such as oscilloscopes, radars and sonars. These ready-made machines were showing the possibilities of ghosts and other kinds of life forms living inside a certain space or inside the electricity grids. The cities of Paris, Linz, Bangkok, Shanghai, Banja Luka, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, New York City, Tokyo, Frankfurt am Main, Stockholm and Copenhagen has been under this magnifying ghost glass. More recently the exhibition “The Complete Operations of Spirit Communication” was shown at OK Centrum in Linz, Austria.
His interest in audio and radio technology also came in light at the 49th Biennale di Venezia in 2001. In a collaborative work with Tommi Grönlund, Petteri Nisunen, Leif Elggren and Anders Tomrén he had constructed a radio receiver that could play all radio transmissions from the Venice area at the same time. The entire Nordic Pavilion was filled with this mix of sounds producing a beautiful and at the same time profound religious audio graphic environment. Other radio tech works include the usage of scanners and EVP frequencies.
Hausswolf has also created a series of social platforms, places where people can meet and consume. His “Thinner- and Low Frequency Bar” was used at the Momentum biennial in Moss, Norway, Prato, Italy and London and his “Glue- (Tobacco-) and High Frequency Lounge” was used in Geneva and in Prato. These works show Hausswolff’s critical view on the society’s hypocritical treatment of drugs and addiction. The audience could sniff the highly toxic substances thinner and contact glue while smoking cigarettes and getting penetrated by the either low or high sine wave tones.
In 1993 he and Leif Elggren developed the ever-lasting conceptual piece 'The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland'. Here a new country was established in the world. Its territories was all border areas between every country, the No Man Land, mental territories such as the hypnagogue dream state and digital areas on the Internet. Paraphernalia such as a constitution including flags, coat of arms, and national hymn was produced and letters was sent to every government in the world asking for recognition. In 1995 an application for membership in the United Nations was sent in and in 2005 the New United Nations was proclaimed. Elgaland-Vargaland now has over 800 citizens and is frequently manifesting itself through the channels of conceptual art. Embassies has been established in Stockholm, Mexico City, Oujda, London, New York, San Francisco, Osaka, Barcelona, Helsinki and many other places. In 1995 the country annexed Schlaraffenland; at the 50th Biennale di Venezia in 2003 the state annexed Thomas More’s Utopia at the Utopia Station project and in 2007 the island of San Michele outside of Venice was annexed.
Hausswolff was also a freelance curator at Färgfabriken Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture in Stockholm. From 1999 until now he has curated retrospective exhibitions by the works of the EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson, his long time colleague Leif Elggren, and Swedish electronic music pioneer Rune Lindblad. He also curated a special exhibition of works by his mentor Brion Gysin as well as works by Max Fredriksson, Henrik Rylander and Henrik Andersson.
The works of Friedrich Jurgenson has also been showed in Berlin, New York City, Brussels, Goteborg, Frankfurt am Main and Karlsruhe and parallel to these shows adaptations of other potential artists such as Olga Eriksson, Martin Ekenberg, Selmer Nilsen and Jim Irwin have emerged.
IN 2003-07 he curated the sound art project 'freq_out' in Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Chiang Mai and Budapest. This project includes the individual works from 12 sound artists shown in a collective way. The frequency range from 15 – 12 000 Hz was divided up into 12 sections and handed out to the artists. These exhibitions has showed a new way to deal and treat sound works as an exhibitional form, a form that mostly has been chaotic and non functional in many recent group shows. Artists included were Jacob Kirkegaard, J.G. Thirlwell, Jana Winderen, Finnbogi Petursson, Pomassl, Mike Harding, Maia Urstad, BJ Nilsen, Tommi Gronlund&Petteri Nisunen, PerMagnus Lindborg, Kent Tankred and Brandon LaBelle.
In 2003 Hausswolff curated, Against All Evens, the 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art in Göteborg, Sweden. Here he mixed sound artists like Ryoji Ikeda, Else Marie Pade and John Duncan with dictator painters from Libya and Cambodia; contemporary artists like Phill Niblock, Simone Kaern-Aaberg and Surasi Kusolwong with ready-made artists like Jürgenson and the inventor of the mail bomb Martin Ekenberg; painters like Jan Håfström with painters like Kim Gordon and Russell Haswell.
In spring 2005 Hausswolff completed his Starhouse project for The Land Foundation, organised by Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija in Chiangmai, Thailand.
Solo exhibitions 1981-2010
2010
Ghost Transmissions, Wilfried Lenz, Rotterdam (B) w Nico Dockx & Michael Esposito
RED, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm (S)
Mockridge Fountain, City of Melbourne (AUS)
Three Films, Galeria Enrico Fornello, Milano (I) with T. Nordanstad
2009
Tromsö Kunstforening, Tromsö (NO) with G Jenssen
Red-Red, Kaliningrad Regional Art Gallery (NCCA), Kaliningrad (RU) with Y Vassiliev
Leonardi Kulturprojekte, Karben/Frankfurt (D) KREV
Birdcage, Stockholm/Paris (S/F)
Adoptations, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm (S)
Aronsberg Jewish Cemetary, Stockholm (S)
Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm (S) with T Nordanstad
Enter: Sonic Tank, Tou Scene, Stavanger (N)
2008
Bolsjefabrikken/Zoo, Copenhagen (DK) KREV
Galleri 64,Paris (F) KREV
Monte San Martino (I) KREV
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) KREV
CCA, Kitakyushu (J) with Thomas Nordanstad
Cabaret Voltaire/Bodensee (SCH) KREV
Del Sol St Gallery, Santander (ES) KREV
Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm (S) KREV
Modules Répondeur (F Jürgenson), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
2007
Gallery 400, Chicago (USA) KREV
Toteninsel, Venice (I) KREV
Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Queretaro (MX)
Wanås (S), with J. Håfström & J-P Fabra
2006
Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, (Croatia)
Färgfabriken, Stockholm (S) (with Anita Gordh)
Diapason, New York City (USA)
2005
Beaconsfield, London (UK)
2004
OK Spektral, OK Centrum für Gegenwarte Kunst, Linz (A)
Chiangmai Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai (Thai)
Brändström & Stene, Stockholm (S)
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (D)
2003
Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb (Cro)
NicolaFornello, Prato (I) with John Duncan
2002
Pierogi Gallery, New York (USA) with L. Elggren
Vita boxen, Umeå
2001
CCA, Kitakyushu, (J)
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (S)
Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna (S) (with L. Elggren)
2000
Artspace 1%, København (DK) (with Bigert & Bergström)
1999
Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SLO) (with P. Hagdahl, L. Elggren)
1998
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (S)
Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FIN), (with Tommi Grönlund/Petteri Nisunen)
1996
Bijster Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) with L. Elggren
Bunker/Box 23, Kaliningrad (RUS)
Unterm Durchschnitt, Hamburg (G)
Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York (USA) with L. Elggren
1995
Kalmar Konstmuseum (S) with L. Elggren
1994
Alli Poli Gallery, Tessaloniki (G) with L. Elggren
Internet: HYPERLINK "http://www.it.kth.se/KREV/" http://www.it.kth.se/KREV/ (2003: http://www.krev.org)
Nordanstad Gallery, New York City with L. Elggren
1993
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) with L. Elggren
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (S) with L. Elggren
1991
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) with E. Pauser
1990
Konsthall Alka, Linköping (S) with E Pauser and L Elggren
1989
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) with Erik Pauser
1986
A Journey Through The World part II (Zürich-Zürich 1986) with E Pauser
1984
Centrallagret, Stockholm (S) with U Hillebrand
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) with E Pauser, T Liljenberg and L Elggren
1983
Hemlösa Brunn, Göteborg (S)
Grand Hotel, Stockholm (S) with T Liljenberg, E Pauser and L Elggren
A Jorney Through The World, part I (Alger-Lagos 1983) with E Pauser
1982
Lukasgalleriet/Gamla Vattentornet, Linköping (S) with T Liljenberg, E Pauser and L Elggren
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg (S) with E Pauser, T Liljenberg and L Elggren
1981
Skogshuggarens Dröm, Galleri DS, Göteborg (S) with E Pauser
Mat för de Svältande, Galleri DS, Göteborg (S) with E Pauser
Group exhibitions 1984-2010
2010
Omskakad Spelplan, Göteborgs Konstmuseum (S)
27 Senses, Chisenhale Gallery, London (UK)
The Morning Line, Thyssen-Bornemisza A21, Istanbul (TU)
Die Perfekte Ausstellung, Heidelberger Kunstverein (D)
Wach Sind Nur Die Geister, Center for Contemporary Art, Torun (PL)
Interference, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S)
2009
Red October, 3rd Moscow Biennial, Moscow (RU)
I Love Malmö, Kumu Tallinn Art Museum, (E)
Momentum, Moss (N) med J Håfström, J-P Fabra
UTOPICS 11th Sculpture Biennal, Biel/Bienne, (CH) KREV
See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz (A)
Tänk På Döden, M.A.P., Stockholm (S)
„WACH SIND NUR DIE GEISTER“, HMKV/Phoenix Halle,Dortmund (DE)
Several Silences, Renaissance Society, Chicago (USA)
Perspectives, Kulturhuset, Västerås (S)
27 Senses, Kube, Ålesund (N)
Helsingborg•Malmö, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (S)
deja vu/Museo MAMbo, Bologna (I) with T Nordanstad
2008
Spectropia, Riga City Exhibition Hall, Riga (Lat)
Ars Telefonica, Bucharest (RO)
"Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love", Bangkok Art and Culture Centre,(Th)
H2O, St Petersburg (RU)
6808, Färgfabriken (S) KREV
Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund (S)
Ghost In The Machine, Kunstnerernas Hus, Olso (N)
Rainbow Audio Transformation, Extra City, Antwerp (B)
2007
Verbindingen/Jonctions 10, Brussels (KREV)
Verbindingen/Jonctions 10, Brussels (with Dominique Goblet and Guy Marc Hinant)
Min Husses Hund, Tegen2, Stocholm
Tänd Mörkret, Göteborgs Konstmuseum (S)
DADAEast, Färgfabriken (S)
Trans(ient) City, Urban Landmarks, Luxembourg (LUX)
National Pride, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
slash/fiction, Gasworks, London (UK)
Anachronism, Argos ˆ Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (B)
Micronations, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (KREV)
2nd Moscow Biennial, Art Center Winzavod, Moscow (RU)
Sound/Bytes, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg (D)
Prophets of Deceit, Canzani center Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (US)
Rock’n’Roll #1, Norrköping Art Museum, Norkköping (SE)
2006
Prophets of Deceit, CCA Wattis Inst. For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (USA)
Basel Art Fair, Brändström & Stene
Around, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato (I)
Strange Powers, Creativetime, New York City (USA)
Tina B, Prague (CZ)
Peace Tower, Whitney Biennial, New York City, (USA)
Auflösung II (Rausch/en), NGBK, Berlin (D)
ARS 06, Kiasma, Helsinki (FIN)
2005
Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield,London (UK)
APAP, Anyang, (KOR)
51st Biennale di Venezia (Theatre) (I)
vom Verschwinden, Phoenix Hall, Dortmund (D)
Resonances, ZKM; Karlsruhe (D)
DMZ_2005, Jeong Han Sook House, Heyri, (KOR)
SonarMatica, Sonar, Barcelona (ES)
Det ofullbordade mästerverket (J: Håfström), Nationalmuseum (KREV), Stockholm (SE)
Tracer, retracer / Tracking the traces (Jürgenson), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal (CA)
The Land Foundation (Starhouse), Chiangmai, (Thai)
Utopia Station, Porto Allegre, (Brazil)
Water Event, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo (N) with Yoko Ono
2004
Vid Liverts Källa, Forum Box, Helsinki (SF) with Elggren, Tomren, Grönlund, Nisunen
Untrue Stories, History Museum, Tblisi (Gerogia)
We Could Have Invited Everyone, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland (UK) with L. Elggren
Utopia Station, Haus Der Kunst, München (D)
Drawn by Reality -- Encapsulated in Life, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh (US)
3rd Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool (UK)
Phonorama, (Jürgenson), ZKM Karlsruhe (D)
SonarMatica, Sonar, Barcelona (ES)
First Internatrional Biennial for Artists Books, Alexandria Library (Egy)
.ipeg bild ton maschine, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
Making Differences, Historiska Museet, Stockholm (S)
2003
Invisible Wealth, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (S)
Modesty, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SL)
Undercover, Museet för Samtidskunst, Rosklide (DK)
I Moderni, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli (I)
Temporary Spaces, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)
Fluxus Favourites, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (with B af Klintberg, Mats B. Bodil Blå, K Matousch)
Somos Todos Pecadores, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Monterey (MX)
Beyond Paradise, Shanghai (CH)
Utopia Station, 50th Biennale di Venezia (I) (with L. Elggren)
2002
Radar, Planetarium, Copenhagen (DK)
I Promise it’s Political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (D)
Somos Todos Pecadores, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (MX)
Rouge Phosphene, Crac, Sète (F)
Frequenzen (Hz), Schrin Kunstahalle; Frankfurt aM (D)
Beyond Paradise, National Gallery, Bangkok (T)
Beyond Paradise, Kuala Lumpur (Mal)
Iconoclash, ZKM, Karlsruhe (D)
The Visitors Konsthallen, Uddevalla (S)
2001
Bo01, Malmö, 2001
Dögnvill, Svolvaer (N)
49th Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavillion, Venezia (I) w/Elggren, Grönlund, Nisunen & Tomrén
Mutations, Tokyo (JAP)
Mutations, Bruxelles (B)
Interferenze, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (I)
2000
PICAF, Pusan (KOR)
CRAC, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (S)
EV+A, Limerick (IR)
Volume, P.S.1., New York (USA)
Mutations, Arc En Reve, Bordeaux (F)
Bring the Noise, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva (CH)
Audible Light, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (GB)
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S)
Organising Freedom, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (D)
Sonic Boom, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
Sound Art – Sound as Media, ICC, Tokyo (JAP)
1999
G A S, Göteborg (S)
Art Crash, Aarhus, (D)
Cities on the Move VI, Bangkok (T)
2nd International Biennial, Los Angeles (USA)
The Young And The Old Ones, Väinö Altonen Museum, Åbo (FIN), (with Jan Håfström)
3rd International Biennial, SITE, Santa Fé (USA)
Edstrandska stipendiet, Rooseum, Lund (S)
Crossings, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (Czeck)
Swedish Style/Deluxe, Tokyo (J)
1998
Stretch, Tensta Konsthall.
Port, Rågsved, Stockholm (S)
The Quickening, Banja Luka, (Bosnia/Hercegovina )
Avatar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S)
Crossings, Kunsthalle Wien (A)
Arkipelag, Stockholm (S)
Nuit blanche, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (F)
Pakkhus, Momentum, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss
(NOR)
Medialisation, Edsvik, Stockholm (S), 1998
Medialisation, Museum oc Contemporary Art, Tallin (Est)
1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale (SA)
5th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (TR)
documenta X, Kassel (D)
Smart Show, Färgfabriken/Baltic Sea, Stockholm (S)
Nordica, Helsinki (F)
The Conspiracy, Uppsala Art Museum (S)
Auto Show, Kassel (D)
Auto Show, Stockholm (S)
Galleri Tusk, Copenhagen
The Conspiracy, FOKA, Thessaloniki
The Conspiracy, The Soap Factory, Athens
Ear As Eye, LACE, Los Angeles
Ear As Eye, Anomalous, Seattle
1996
How The Land Lies, Hales Gallery, London (UK)
Manifesta 1, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
(constriction), Pierogi 2000, New York City (cat. only) (USA)
Interpol, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (S)
1995
Headlands Center for the Arts, Califirnia (USA)
1994
In Och Sen Ut, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla (S)
Expressen (daily newspaper project)
1993
Overground (World Expo), Göteborgs Konsthall (S)
1992
Be Connected, RIX, Linkoping
1984
VHS Kunststation, Kleinsassen (BRD)
Theatre
2007
Physical Interrogation Techniques, Kaaitheater, Bruxelles (B)
Physical Interrogation Techniques, Tallinn (EST)
2005
Physical Interrogation Techniques, 52nd Biennial Venezia (I)
Physical Interrogation Techniques, Bolzano (I)
Filmography
2007
Hashima, Japan 2001/Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt 2005, DVD (with T. Nordanstad) (Errant Bodies, Copenhagen/Los Angeles)
1991
Phauss Alamut 1986, VHS (with E. Pauser) (Brandklipparen, Göteborg (S))
Publications
142 Reasons For Still Being Alive (CCA, Kitakyushu) 2002
Alamut (Firework Editions, Stockholm) 2004
Red Empty (Chicago 2003), (Whitewalls/Lampo, Chocago) 2005
RED (Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm) 2010
Writing
Catalogue texts for Mika Vainio, John Duncan, Leif Elggren, Carsten Nicolai, Jan Håfström and Tommi Grönlund/Petteri Nisunen
Organizations and Curatorial Work
2008
freq_out 7, Happy New Ears, Kortrijk (BE)
Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund (S) with Jan Åman
Rainbow Audio Transformation, Extra City, Antwerp (B) with Nico Dockx
2007
freq_out 6, Dreamlands Burn, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (HU)
freq_out 5 /Building Transmissions, The Land/CMU Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai (Thai) with Nico Dockx
2006
The Trans-Communication Lab (Radio Gallery), The Old Operating Theatre, London (UK) with Lina Dzuverovic (Electra)
freq_out 4, Schlossplatz, Sonambiente, Berlin (D)
2005
freq_out 3, Nuit Blanche, Paris (F) with JG Thirlwell
Tourist Class, Malmö Art Museum (S) with Lars O Ericsson
2004
freq_out 2.0, Ultima, Henie Onstad Center, Oslo (curator) with Jana Winderen
God Made Me Do It, Making Differences, Historiska Museet (S) (curator/artist)
2003
2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (curator)
freq_out 1.0, Disturbances (Sound As A Space Creator) Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (curator)
2002
Rouge Phosphene, Sete, France (F) (co-curator)
1999-2008
Freelance curator at Färgfabriken, Stockholm
Friedrich Jürgenson (also shown in parts in Göteborg, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Berlin (2 times), New York City, Bruxelles, Montreal)
Max Fredrikson
Leif Elggren (also shown in Linköping (S) and Göteborg (S))
Rune Lindblad (also shown in Göteborg (S) and Rosklide (DK))
Henrik Andersson/Henrik Rylander
Brion Gysin (also shown in parts in Los Angeles)
1998
Lucia-a-go-go, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm (co-curated with T. Nordanstad/A. Fioretos)
1998
Origin – record label
1997
CRAC (Creative Room for Art and Computing) – digital art studio established in Stockholm (S)
1996
CD compiler for SIKSI Art Review (#4 1996)
Origin, co-founder - recordlabel
Loveall, co-,curator, Färgfabriken, (S)
1995
Audiovision 1995, curator, 6-CD box
1994
New Reality Mix, co-curator, Stockholm (S)
The Stockholm Electronic Music Festival XVI, program comittee
1993
Overground, Konsthallen, Göteborg (S)
1991-
Elgaland-Vargaland, conceptual art project collaboration with Leif Elggren
1991-
Anckartsröm - record label
1983-90
Radium 226.05 – record label, magazine and exhibitions
1980-82
DS Art Gallery, Gothenburg
1980-1995
Phauss – art and music project collaboration with Erik Pauser.
Discography
(full length DVD, CD, LP, 10" and 7")
2010
The Ghosts of Effingham, vax cylinder/download(Ash International/PARC, London) with Michael Esposito and Phantom Airwaves
Robert Piotrowicz/Carl Michael von Hausswolff 12" (Bocian Records, Warsaw)
Descending the Silver River of the DFX, 12" (Important, Boston) with Skull Defekts
Graf Spee 12" (Presto, Milano) with J Håfström and J P Fabra
2009
National Anthem #6 (START!) 7" (Ash International, London)
2008
National Anthem #5 (Kampens Musikskoles Musikkorps) and Underwater Anthem 7" (Ash International, London)
Perhaps I Arrive - Music for Istanbul International Airport (Aufabwegen, Cologne)
Building Transmissions/freq_out 5, CD/book (curious/Zona, Antwerpen/Firenze
2007
National Anthem #3 and #4 (Klezmer/Kabukabu) 7" (Ash International, London)
National Anthem #2 (Mariachi version) 7" (Ash International, London)
Maggots/Maskar, CD (Laton, Wien)
freq-out 3/freq-out 4, CD (cat. Dreamlands Burn (Mücsarnok, Budapest)
2006
Topophonic Models, CD (feld, Frankfurt am Main)
The Wonderful World of Male Intuition, CD (ORAL, Montreal)
Operation of Spirit Communication, 7” (Die Stadt, Bremen)
Our Telluric Conversation, CD (23Five, San Francisco) with John Duncan
Leech, CD (RasterNoton, Berlin/Chemniz)
2005
There Are No Crows Flying Around The Hancock Building, CD (Lampo, Chicago)
Freq_out 2, CD (Ash International, London)
2004
Rats/Råttor, CD, (Laton, Wien)
Three Overpopulated Cities Built By Short-sighted Planners, An Unbalanced and Quite Dangerous Airport and an Abandoned Church, CD (Sub Rosa, Brussels)
2003
freq_out, Ash International, London
Stun Shelter (with J. Duncan), CD/Catalogue (NicolaFornello/Allquestions, Prato/Scrutto)
Pan sonic Plays Kurenniemi, DVD (Kiasma, Helsinki)
2002
A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture, CD (Firework Edition Records, Stockholm)
2001
Ström, CD (RasterNoton, Berlin/Chemnitz)
Live at Generator 1989, Phauss, CD (Generator, New York)
2000
Operations Of Spirit Communication, LP (Die Stadt, Bremen)
Opening Sweep, OCSID, CD (Ash International RIP, London)
1999
Basic, CD (Table of the Elements, Atlanta, USA)
In Between, OCSID, CD (Origin, Stockholm)
1997
L'Esprit, 10" (Disques De Carotte, Bordeaux, France)
To Make Things Happen In The Bunker Via The Micro Way, CD (Fire Inc., Reykjavik)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff, LP (Ash International, London)
1996
Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem #1, med L. Elggren, CD (Ash International, London)
CM von Hausswolff Plays John Cage, 7" (Povertech, Sacramento)
1995
Rays of Beauty, CD (SubRosa, Brussels)
1994
GodTphauss, Phauss, CD (Silent Records, San Francisco)
1993
Resurrection, The Hafler Trio & The Sons of God , CD (Touch, London)
1992
PHAUSS/Karkowski/Bilting, CD (Silent Records, San Fransisco)
1991
Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth, Phauss, CD (Anckarström, Göteborg)
1987
Audiodrome, Phauss, LP (Radium 226.05 Records, Göteborg)
1986
Life & Death of Pboc, LP, (Radium 226.05 Records, Göteborg)
1984
The Gallery/Tower of Water, Phauss & Firework, 7" (Radium 226.05 Records, Göteborg)
1983
Conductor, LP, (Radium 226.05 Records, Göteborg)
1980
Bark & Is, LP (Sista Bussen, Göteborg)
Compilations
2009
The Plastic People, CD (Vibrö, Paris)
2008
Ars Telefonica, Book/CD (Bucharest)
Acoustic Diagnostic, CD-R (NCCA, Kaliningrad)
2007
Visionaire 53 Sound, LP/CD (Visionaire, New York City)
KKH1 Lock Grooves, 7” (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm)
2006
2LP Städel (with Vainio) (Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main)
2005
Hexenschüss, LP (with JG Thirlwell) (Städelshule, Frankfurt am Main)
Ghosttransmissions, CD (Cubitt-co-Curious, Antwerp)
Untitled songs, CD (sirr, Lisboa)
Yokomono 2, LP (Staalplaat, Berlin/Amsterdam)
2004
Record #1, LP (Städelshule, Frankfurt am Main)
An anthology of noise and electronic music #3, CD (SubRosa, Brussells)
.ipeg bild ton maschine, comp CD (Berlin)
2003
Research Center For The Definition Of Happiness, CDR (Absurd, Athens)
Hausswolff/Duncan/Elggren, 7” (Die Stadt, Bremen)
60 Sound Artists Protest The War, compCD (atak, Tokyo)
2002
Avanto compCD (Avanto, Helsinki)
Floating Foundation vol 2, compCD (SubRosa, Bruxelles)
Prototypes, compCD (Laton, Vienna)
Konstantin Raudive the Voices from the Dead (SubRosa, Bruxelles)
The Void compCD (CCA, Kitakyushu)
Frequensen (Hz), compCD (Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt)
Because Tomorrow Comes #4, comp CD (BTC, Cologne)
2001
The North Is Protected, comp Catalogue/10” (Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavillion, Helsinki/Venezia)
Paletten sound issue, with Leif Elggren, magazine/CD (Paletten, Göteborg)
Sound Art, comp CD (Phono Suecia, Stockholm)
RL, comp LP/CD (Färgfabriken/Firework Ed., Stockholm)
Volume, compCD (PS1, New York)
2000
Comp 2x7” (Die Stadt, Bremen)
Wire live, KREV, compCD (Wire, London)
Mutations, compCD (Arc en Reve, Bordeaux)
Sound Art – Sound As Media, comp Catalogue/CD (ICC, Tokyo)
Audible Light, comp CD (MoMA , Oxford)
1999
Meme, compCD (meme, Tokyo)
1% Lydkunst, OCSID, comp magazine/CD (1%, Copenhagen)
1998
Make It Funky, KREV, compCD/book (Cologne)
Crossings, comp Catalogue/CD (Cantz)
1997
Links Outta Here, comp.CD (Generator, New York City)
o, comp.7" (Die Stadt, Bremen, Tyskland)
Killing Me Softly With Noise, compCD (Noise, Taiwan)
1996
The Nordic Sound Review , The Hafler Trio, comp.CD (SIKSI, Helsinki)
A Fault In The Nothing, comp.CD (Ash International, London)
From Here To Tranquility, Phauss & PGR, comp.CD (Silent Records, San Francisco)
1995
Mesmervariations, comp.CD (Ash International, London)
1994
Anckarström Live, Phauss, comp.CD (Staalplaat, Amsterdam)
1993
Textures, Phauss, comp.CD (Limur, Göteborg)
50 Years of Sunshine, Phauss, comp.CD (Silent Records, San Francisco)
Arcana Caelestia, Phauss, comp.CD (Multimood Records, Göteborg)
1991
Apo Mikhanis Music, Phauss, comp. LP (Ano Kato, Thessaloniki, Grekland)
Testament, Phauss, comp.7" box (RRRecords, Lowell, USA)
1989
This Infernal Love Of Life, Phauss, compLP (TOPYScan, Stockholm)
1987
Dry Lungs III, with Z Karkowski, compLP (Placebo Records, Phoenix, USA)
The Call of Madonna Luisa Ciccione, Phauss, comp.k7 (AIIP Wiesbaden, Västtyskland)
1984
Gothenburg 84, compLP, (Radium 226.05, Göteborg)
Film soundtracks
Life Extended, dir Lars Bergström/Mats Bigert, 60 min (with OCSID), 2008
The Last Supper, dir. Lars Bergström/Mats Bigert, 60 min (with OSCID), 2005
Concerts/Performances
2010
MUTEK, Montreal (CA)
Jauna Muzika, Vilnius, (LIE)
WORM, Rotterdam (NL) with Leif Elggren
DNK, SMART, Amsterdam (NL)
Watford House, Avoca (AUS) with different Melbourne composers
Center for Contemporary Art, Torun (PL)
2009
Zone, Secession, Wien (A)
Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima (JP)
Moving Closer, Warsaw, (PL)
Contemporary Art Space, Gdansk, (PL)
NoFun, Fylkingen, Stockholm (S)
Sound Art Camp, Castle Insterburg, Tchernyakhovsk, (RU) with SB Sigmarsson and Vadim Chaly
Phoenix Halle, Dortmund (D)
Capitol, Stockholm (S)
Cut & Splice 7, Wilton's Music Hall, London (UK) with John Duncan
Ether 09, Queen Elisabeth Hall, London (UK)
Arts Birthday, Berlin
2008
Experimental Intermedia , New York (US)
eArts Festival, Shanghai (CH)
Institute Culturel Suedoise, Paris (F)
Muestra de Arte Sonora, Santander (ES)
Happy New Ears, Kortrijk (B) freq_out Orchestra
Raum, Bologna (I)
Dr K, Uppsala Stadsteater, Uppsala (S)
Stockholm New Music, Fylkingen, Stockholm (S) Drone People
Sonic Acts XII, Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL) Drone People
2007
Dreamlands Burn, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (H) freq_out Orchestra
Fylkingen (Six Aces), Stockholm (S) m Sten Hanson, Gustafsson, Feiler, Elggren
Art 38 Basel, StädelLounge, Basel (CH)
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (CH)
Quinto Festival Internacional de Musica Experimental de Vallecas, Madrid (ES)
Die Stadt, Argos, Brussels (B)
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (DK)
2006
Touch 25/The Bedford Arms, London (UK)
Steirischer Herbst, Graz (A) with Mika Vainio
424 Russian submarine, NCCA, Kaliningrad (RU)
Dissonanza, Rome (I)
Cut & Splice 4, ICA, London (UK)
Vainio/ Elggren/Bender/Hausswolff , Sala Rossa, Montreal, (CA)
Diapason, New York City (US)
Transcommunication Lab, Old Operating Theatre, London (UK)
Lovebytes, Sheiffield (UK)
Fluxus, Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm (SE) with af Klintberg, B., Tellvid and Elggren
IDEAL, Göteborg (S)
Ash International, Fylkingen, stockholm (SE) with Ocsid
2005
All Tomorrows Parties (Easy To Swallow), SE1, London (UK)
Lampo, Chicago (US)
Fly Me To Another World symposium, Chiang Mai, (Thai)
I.D.E.A.L., Nantes (F) KREV: cmvh, Elggren, Lewis, Duncan
Prisma, Norrköping (SE)
Arts Birthday, Konstfack, Stockholm (S)
Electrograph, Athens (G)
2004
Forum Box, Helsinki (SF) with Leif Elggren
Sonic acts X, Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
Skanu mezs/Klangwald, Riga (LAT)
Oslo Jazz Festival (N) with Haswell, Gilbert, Gmaichl, Aphex Twin
Garage, Stralsund (D)
Sonar, Barcelona (ES)
“kaoss v. kaoss”, Podewil, Berlin (D) with Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis
Merz musik/Berlin Biennial; Berlin (D) Pan sonic/Kurenniemi
.ipeg bild ton maschine, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
ZKM; Karlsruhe (D) Pan sonic/Kurenniemi
2003
Observatori, Valencia (ES)
Biennale di Venezia, Venice (I) Pan sonic/Kurenniemi
IWTBF, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (S)
Violet Music, Podewil, Berlin (D)
2002
Avanto, Kiasma, Helsinki (SF) Pan sonic/Kurenniemi
Avanto, Kiasma Helsinki (SF)
Rouge Phosphene, Sete (F)
Le Placard #5, Paris/Tokyo (F/JP)
CRAC, Sete (F)
2001
6ODUM, Lampo, Chicago (US)
2000
Stardust, Stockholm (S)
Nalen/SEKT, Stockholm (S) Ocsid
ICC, Tokyo (JP)
Haight Gallery, Tokyo (JP) with Furudate, Nicolai, Charles et al
1999
“club” München (Ocsid)
“museum” München (Ocsid)
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles (US) Hausswolff/Elggren/Svensson
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles (US)
Jazzhuset, Aarhus (DK) Ocsid
Swedish Style/Deluxe, Tokyo (JP)
1998
Flex, Vienna (A) Ocsid
Nursery Injection, Motorship Stubniz, Stockholm (S/KREV) MGM
Fylkingen, Stockholm, (S) MGM
K, Stockholm (S) Ocsid
Rangustangus, Stockholm (S) Ocsid
1997
Lagerhaus, Bremen (D) Organum
documenta X, Kassel (D) with Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg
documenta X. Kassel (D) with Carsten Nicolai, Mika Vainio and Frank Breitschneider
Tonsättarporträtt, Fylkingen, Stockholm (S)
Lagerhaus, Bremen (D)
1996
Disobey, London (UK) KREV
Loveall, Fargfabriken, Stockholm (S) Ocsid
(ut)härda, Stockholm Culture House (S) Ocsid
IT-dygnet, Linkoping Concert Hall (S) Ocsid
1995
Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar (S) Ocsid
Art Hotel, Hotel Lydmar, Stockholm (S) Ocsid
1994
Rote Flora, Hamburg (D) The Hafler Trio
U4, Vienna (A) The Hafler Trio
200 Yen, Nurnberg (D) The Hafler Trio
Radox FX, Prague (CZ) The Hafler Trio
Mokka, Thun (CH) The Hafler Trio
The Vox/Quirky, London (UK) The Hafler Trio
Blue Room/Sonora, Edinburgh (UK) The Hafler Trio
Bijster Galleri, Amsterdam (NL) The Hafler Trio
Restaurant WC, Stockholm (S) KREV
Lucky People Center, Sergels Torg, Stockholm (S) KREV
1993
Unga Atalante, Goteborg (S) Phauss/Guds Söner
Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK) Phauss/Guds Söner
Lysverket, Oslo (N) Phauss/Guds Söner
Fylkingen, Stockholm (S) Phauss/Guds Söner
Nya Konsthallen, Gavle, (S) Phauss/Guds Söner
Galleri Brage (annex), Umea, (S) Phauss/Guds Söner
ScanCon, EAM-festival, Skinnskatteberg, (S) Phauss Hafler Trio
1992
Stockholm Electronic Music Festival, Stockholm (S)
1991
Fylkingen, Stockholm (S) Guds Söner
Zaal 100, Amsterdam (NL) Phauss
Willemeen, Arnhem (NL) Phauss
EAM Festival, Skinnskatteberg (S) Phauss
Lysverket, Oslo (N) Phauss
Stockholm Electronic Music Festival, Stockholm (S) Phauss
Klangspel, Gävle (S) Phauss
Ausurstraeti, Reykjavik (IS) Phauss Hafler Trio
Hekla (IS) Phauss Hafler Trio
Nylistasafnid (annex), Reykjavik (IS) Phauss Hafler Trio
Lucky People Center, Göteborg (S) Phauss
1990
Kingston Gallery, Boston (US) Phauss
CBGBs, New York City (US) Phauss
Agora, Cleveland (US) Phauss
Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh (US) Phauss
Lower Links, Chicago (US) Phauss
Planet Earth, Knoxville (US) Phauss
Club Dada, Dallas (US) Phauss
Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, Houston (US) Phauss
MexicArte Museum, Austin (US) Phauss
Gallery X, Phoenix (US) Phauss
Union Mutialista Hall, Los Angeles (US) Phauss
Kennel Club, San Francisco (US) Phauss
Kaleidoscope, San Francisco (US) Phauss
Melody Lane, Portland (US) Phauss
Incubator, Seattle (US) Phauss
1989
Lido, Stockholm (S) Phauss
Poetry Art Festival/Kåren, Göteborg (S) Phauss
Generator Experimental Gallery, New York City (US) Phauss
Multimedia Festival, Sandviken (S) Phauss
1988
Trashmusic III, Fylkingen (S) Phauss
1987
Skattkammaren, Kungliga Slottet (S) med Leif Elggren
EAM Festival, Skinnskatteberg (S) Phauss
Monitor 87, Radium 226.05/Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg (S) Phauss
1984
USF Teatertreff, Bergen (N) Phauss
Ny Scen, Göteborg (S) Phauss
Industrimusik festival, DNA fabrik, Göteborg (S) Phauss
1983
Sprängkullen, Göteborg (S) Phauss
1982
Open House, Linz (A) Phauss
Ny Scen, Göteborg (S) DS Art Ensemble
1981
Konceptuell och Visuell Musik, Fylkingen, Stockholm (S)
20 Live Projects, Riddarhuset, Stockholm (S)
Vavd, Vavd (S) Vavd
Vavd/Trans/Aktion, Fylkingen, Stockholm (S)
Magasinsgatan 13, Göteborg (S) Vavd
1980
Renströmska Museet, Göteborg (S)
Mejan, Stockholm (S) Vavd
1980
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Göteborg (S)
Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (S)
Litteraturvetenskapliga Institutionen, Göteborg (S) DS Art Ensemble
Last Aeroplane II, Göteborg (S)
Antikärnkraft gala, Mölndals (S) DS Art Ensemble
1978
Cabaret Pärlsvinet, Arbis, Linköping (S)
Film screenings
2009
Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL) (Hashima)
Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo; Paris (Hashima, Al Qasr, Electra)
Zita, Stockholm (Electra)
Arte Contempo, Lisboa (Hashima, Al Qasr, Electra)
2006
Happy New Ears, Kortrijk (B), (Hashima)
2008
Filmforum, Museum Ludwig, Köln (Al Qasr)
2004
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (Hashima)
Sound design
2000
Hotel ProForma, Jesus_c._Odd_Size, Malmö (S)
1997
Istanbul International Airport, Transit hall (TUR)