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Diese Sprachzange faßt nichts, dieser Sprachbohrer kann keine
Hohlstelle erzeugen,
wo etwas eingeschraubt werden könnte, dieser Sprachschraubenzieher
holt nichts heraus.
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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 a derivate 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.



Contact: Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea
facehug@gmail.com
http://www.facehug.com