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Satan’s trilogy (Stockholm 2015-2017)

As one of 120+ artists, I have contributed to the trilogy Satan’s Democracy, Satan’s Delirium and Satan’s Death; an immersive theatre and art manifestation re-imagining Michail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita; a continuous happening extended over three years and 3500 square metres… where my part was the making of a Passage Room on the third floor – neighbouring the Prime Minister’s bedroom and the gloomy home of the sweatshop workers, somewhere halfway between the uncanny Forest and the cursed flat of Woland.

Passage Room part 1: Satan’s Democracy (2015)

This is the beginning of the Passage Room; a former office space, where the copy machine and filing shelves got replaced with ashes, charcoal, rebars and drain pipes, tarpaulins and thick muffling felt… to become a labyrinth of transparent fabric, hidden spotlights and coloured shadows, with a floor of pitch-black sand. From one side accessible along tufts of dry reeds hanging from the roof; from the other through a narrow tunnel of red, airy silk.

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Above: the Passage Room taking shape
Below: Into the Red

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Blogpost: Meanwhile,

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Passage Room part 2: Satan’s Delirium (2016)

In the second part of the trilogy, the audience was drawn into the delirium of a ferocious Prosecutor left alone after the unhappy ending of Satan’s Democracy; a winding path was laid out through the three storeys of the scenography, and presented to the audience along with a three-course meal. As the 150+ rooms were blackened out – in order to be explored mainly by torchlight – the Passage Room was upgraded with mirror shards from the ceiling to the floor… but otherwise left more or less intact.

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Details from the Passage Room in 2016; photo HHW.

Blogpost:
Back in the House of Nameless Storeys; part two, Satan’s delirium

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Textile object Ullva (HHW.) and graffiti palimpsest by Andreas Blom;
photo HHW.

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Passage Room part 3: Satan’s Death (2017)

In preparation for Satan’s Death, all scenography got completely whitewashed – with the exception of a few hidden spaces, such as the Passage Room. Inside that pale limbo, only one actor remained: Woland/Angela Wand. In addition, four musicians were allocated in different parts of the building – but connected to each other over FM radio, and broadcasted live into the headphones offered to each visitor; dressed up in strange and beautiful costumes, in accordance with the dreamlike atmosphere, they performed a piece written for the occasion by composer Magnus Larsson. The audience were encouraged to take active part in exploring and transforming the settings – as were we, the artists.

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Compost performance in the Passage Room;
photo credit: What Took You So Long

Adopting the basics of performance, I impersonated Lussi – the heathen Bride of the Winter Solstice – ambling slowly along the corridors; ending up in the living body of the compost, along with earthworms and a couple of tiny white spiders, offering visitors ripe fruits and warm soil.

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Lussi/Compost performance;
photo credit Mia Malcyone

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Passage Room compost and fungi in crystal shaped plexi container;
photo HHW.

Blogposts:
Satan’s Death
Passage Room@Satan’s Death (construction)
Passage Room@Satan’s Death (performance)

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video clips:

Satan’s Death, finale

Satan the Movie

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Pages

  • About
    • Curriculum Vitae
  • Art’s Birthday at Soundtower (Gnesta 2022)
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Et In Terra Pax (Stigtomta 2011)
  • formative works 1987-1999
  • Jam (Gnesta, Sickla 2017)
  • painting by printmaking
  • painting ∞ drawing
    • Casilda series
    • diary paintings
    • Human Being Images
  • Satan’s trilogy (Stockholm 2015-2017)
  • Sharing & Learning
    • Feedback method
    • Green Lab
    • Storytelling by Art
  • skies, mountains
  • Star Roads (Igelsta 2018)
  • terrastella (Åbo/Turku 2010-2011)
  • Texts
    • in English
      • to care in a peculiar way
    • in Swedish / på svenska
      • -Ja, vad är målandets objekt…?
      • Klar november. Så underligt
      • Rum. Mellanrum
      • snabbt längs ordlösa kända vägar
      • Tolv grader kallt,
      • Var är mitt språk, jag behöver det nu!
      • Vi står i oktober
  • The Exhibition and Life (Reconsidered) 2022
  • the Nomadic University (2007-2012)
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