“The Trumpet in the Bottom” : Öyvind Fahlström and the Uncanny: “Trumpeten i stjärten” : Öyvind Fahlström och det kusliga
2017 (English)In: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, ISSN 0013-0818, E-ISSN 1500-1989, Vol. 104, no 2, p. 176-198Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Öyvind Fahlström (1928–76) began as a surrealist at the end of the 1940s, and among others wrote the unpublished poetry collection “The Trumpet in the Bottom”. In 1953, he wrote the world’s first manifesto for concrete poetry, inspired by Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète, and soon became a driving force in the Swedish and international neo-avantgarde. In the mid-1950s he turned to the visual arts, and later he also wrote radio plays, directed movies and arranged performances and happenings. He showed an extraordinary sensibility for the uncanny in his selection of “life material” for his art, thus uncovering the return of the repressed in everyday life and popular culture, in the form of scatology, pornography, the monstrous, the body, the materiality of the artwork and media, and so on. In his art, this uncanny life material was turned into political statements. In my article the discussion is exemplified from different genres of Fahlström’s œuvre, from his early texts and radio plays, to his visual art.
Abstract [sv]
Öyvind Fahlström (1928–76) började som surrealist i slutet av fyrtiotalet, och skrev bl.a. den opublicerade diktsamlingen “Trumpeten i stjärten”. 1953 skrev han världens första manifest för konkret poesi, inspirerad av Pierre Schaeffers musique concrète, och blev snart en drivkraft i det svenska och internationella neoavantgardet. I mitten av femtiotalet övergick han till bildkonst, och senare skrev han också radiokompositioner, regisse- ÅRGANG 117, NR. 2-2017, S. 176–198 ISSN ONLINE: 1500-1989 EDDA | ÅRGANG 117 | NR. 2-2017 177 This article is downloaded from www.idunn.no. © 2017 Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). rade filmer och arrangerade performance och happenings. Han uppvisade en extraordinär känslighet för det kusliga i sitt urval av “livsmaterial” till sin konst, på så sätt blottläggande “the return of the repressed” i vardagslivet och i populärkulturen, så som skatologi, pornografi, det monströsa, kroppen, konstens materialitet och media etc. I hans konst vänds dessa kusliga inslag till politiska uttalanden. I min artikel exemplifieras diskussionen från olika genrer i Fahlströms œuvre, från hans tidiga texter och radiokompositioner, till hans bildkonst.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2017. Vol. 104, no 2, p. 176-198
Keywords [en]
Öyvind Fahlström, The Uncanny, Avant-Garde, Concrete Poetry, Surrealism
Keywords [sv]
Öyvind Fahlström, det kusliga, avantgarde, konkret poesi, surrealism
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-89616DOI: 10.18261/ISSN.1500-1989-2017-02-07OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-89616DiVA, id: diva2:1361093
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