Death Travels Backwards (DVD)
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With a conversation between Leif Elggren and Brandon LaBelle.
2009
DVD in 14 x 19 cm digipack + 16 pages booklet (4 color ill.)
87', color, sound
16 €
Cataloguing a collection of works from 1999 to the present, Death Travels Backwards delivers an important overview of the artist's pursuit of the hidden secrets and spectral
enigmas found within the everyday. What marks Elggren's video works is an
understanding of how image and sound work together to infuse the electronic material
with an element of the uncanny, and to supply the imagination of the viewer with a
glimpse onto infinity.
Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren is one of the most constantly surprising and mysterious conceptual artists to work in the combined fields of audio and video. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has numerous audio releases to his credit,
working individually and also with the Sons of God (along with Kent Tankred). His
music, often conceived as the soundtrack to visual installations or experimental stage
performances, presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and
can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide-ranging and
investigative body of work consistently involves dreams and mysterious narratives, often
inverting social hierarchies to ultimately subvert the real with poetical matter.
