GRAVITY AND GRACE

Tokyo Style in Stockholm - TETSUO FURUDATE and LEIF ELGGREN
Electronics, readers and moving images. Readers: PÄR THÖRN and OLGA MAGIERES. In conjunction with the performance a new installation by SUMIHISA ARIMA (Japan).

A new collaborative piece called Gravity and Grace (the title is borrowed from the book with the same name by Simone Weil) with text by Marquis de Sade, George W Bush, William Shakespeare, Guillaume Apollinaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Emanuel Swedenborg and Simone Weil.
Tetsuo Furudate and Leif Elggren have been collaborating in several projects before:
"Othello", a noise opera by Tetsuo Furudate at Podewil, Berlin 2001. "Othello" was released as a CD on Les Disques du Soleil et de l´Acier, France 2001.
"King Lear" at Podewil, Berlin and Tokyo 2003.
"The Auditory Sense of Mr Roderick Usher", concert/performance by Tetsuo Furudate at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany 2003.
ARR: Fylkingen