Carl Michael von Hausswolff 1

Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm.
Since the end of the 1970s, Hausswolf 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.

Hausswolff's concerts have been performed throughout Europe and in North America and Asia in festivals such as Sonar and Electrograph. His audio works can be found under various labels. Musically he has collaborated with Graham Lewis (Wire), Andrew McLenzie (The Hafler Trio), Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) and many others.

His "Red" series using red lights in various architectural misfittings has shown a rather critical side of his works.His interest in architecture and topography has also resulted in the films Hashima, Japan, 2002, Al Qasr, Bahriyah Oasis, Egypt, 2005 and Electra, Texas, 2008 made in collaboration with documentary film maker Thomas Nordanstad.
From 1999 until 2008 Hausswolff was also a freelance curator at Färgfabriken Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture in Stockholm. From 2003 he has curated the ongoing sound art project freq_out, in Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Kortrijk and Chiang Mai. In 2003 Hausswolff curated the 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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It is Andrew *McKenzie* not McLenzie what a shame.