Artist´s book release [2015]
BARBARER SIMULERAR SAMSPRÅK
(Barbarians simulating conversation)Publisher: Styx förlag. Format: 210 x 287 mm, paperback, 140 pages.
Contents:
First part – 30 colour images by Niklas Nenzén, accompanied by texts from Dhmnpss Aeouy, John Andersson, Christian Andersson, Helena Boberg, Kenneth Cox, Christofer Dahlby, Karl Eklund, Kim Fagerstam, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Bill Howe, Robert Lindroth, C M Lundberg, Emma Lundenmark, Maja Lundgren, Matti Steiger Lundmark, Niklas Nenzén, Kristoffer Noheden, Gabriella Novak, Eva Kristina Olsson, Ika Österblad.
Second part – Three b/w comics; Jordens leende, Skuggan and En reserverad plats.
Jag är alldeles hypnotiserad av varmvattenelementet
For a long time I contemplated this picture dizzy before the wealth of narrative elements and frowning upon the ugly twisted version of a turkey/frozen-steak/flamingo, yet without being able to understand whom the title referred to. Wouldn’t “ugly waders” be something like the “suburban bathers” in the Residents song, which we quoted in the account of our “I see the sea”-experiment which was recently published in Czech in Analogon #73? I kept thinking about whether “hideous charadrii” was some complex wordplay on “Charadrius hiaticula”, the common ringed plover (“större strandpipare” in Swedish), whose name would translate “the wader with a small gap”, but would anyone but an ornithologist start out with that? But then with a Lidner snap I see that the ugly flamingo is a hideous wader… Though “Charadrii” is the plural form, so there must be more than one. And all these lurking suburban bathers become hideous waders after all? Or is the hideous hidden?