Artist in absence
The sound artist Christian Bock is here forth selected as the Artist in absence at Weld, 15th Dec 2011 – 15th Jan 2012.
Christian Bock, born 1950, lives and works in Stockholm and has ever since 1978 been a pioneer primarily in electronic sound art and text-sound composition but has also been working in intermedia genres such as toytech, video and installation. Bock studied electronic music at EMS and the Royal College of Music between 1980 and 1982, both in Stockholm. Furthermore he has degrees in Social Studies and Library Science. Christian Bock also took part in a workshop led by Lars-Gunnar Bodin on text-sound composition and electroacoustic form at EMS in 1978-80 and has attended shorter courses such as Dramaturgy in the Medium of Radio at the Dramatiska institutet, in 1981, with guest lecturers such as Lennart Hyland and Pierre Schaefer, and Robot Technology at the Royal Institute of Art (in collaboration with Fylkingen in 1999) with the Canadian artists Jeff Mann, Victoria Scott and Norman White.
Selected works by Christian Bock:
Hyland, Edited, 1979, Acoustic Rooms and Mechanical Filters and Bits and Pieces of Bosse, both 1982, The Washington Trials, 1996, and Before and After an Oulipoetic Contamination, 2006.
Worth mentioning amongst the interim intermedia works is the sound installation Hyland, Edited for Four Tandbergs, 1991, the video/DVD Episode 123 Now on Video, 1995/2005, and the slideshow Plates, 2001. A long-term work that is as of yet to be completed is The Mausoleum of Hyland.
Christian Bock has been a member of Fylkingen since 1982 (he visited the society for the first time in 1966) and was part of the editorial staff of the large book about Fylkingen: New Music and Intermedia Art: 1933-1993, 1994. He also produced the reissue of John Cage’s: Sonatas and Interludes as a CD in 1997.