DJ and club promoter, living in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Freelancing Sound Designer and Composer. 

Accelerating music & culture for twenty-five years.

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Lukas Nystrand Von Unge
Lukas Nystrand Von Unge (Nykarleby, Finland) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, Nystrand Von Unge creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual. They are inspired by a nineteenth-century tradition of works, in which an ideal of ‘Fulfilled Absence’ was seen as the pinnacle.

His artworks are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, he formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.

His works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By referencing romanticism, grand-guignolesque black humour and symbolism, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.

His works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. Lukas Nystrand Von Unge currently lives and works in Stockholm.

Have veeery little sparetime at the moment. Contact at lukasn(at)gmail.com instead of messaging me here since i am mostly logged in using the sucky soundcloud mobile app. Sorry if you don't receive any answers. I really try to answer all mails i get but i fail, miserebely. 

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