NU Performance Festival II:
NB! in Von Krahl Theatre
CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSWOLFF /SWE/
Physical Interrogation Techniques

Concept: CM von Hausswolff
Script development: Marietta von Baumgarten
Sound: CM von Hausswolff
Actors: Taavi Eelmaa, Juhan Ulfsak
Duration approximately 55`
Ticket: 100/150
NB!! The Performance is in Estonian

Physical Interrogation Techniques is a theatre piece about torture. It involves two actors, electronic sound and light. It is a exceptional piece, in many ways, in von Hauswolffs overall body of work. Although involving performative elements often, this is the only piece he has done especially for theater settings. Physical Intterrogation Techniques was premiered in 2005 at the Biennale di Venezia. 

Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm. Since the end of the 70s, Hausswolf has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography. Since 1999 he is also a curator at Färgfabriken Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture in Stockholm.
His audio compositions from 1979 to 1992, constructed almost exclusively from basic material taken from earlier audiovisual installations and performance works, consists essentially of complex macromal drones with a surface of aesthetic elegance and beauty. In later works, Hausswolff has retained the aesthetic elegance and the drone and added a purely isolationistic sonic condition to composing. Between 1996 and 2007 Hausswolff has boiled away even more ornamental meat from the bones: his works are pure, intuitive studies of electricity, frequency functions and tonal autism within the framework of a conceptual stringent cryption. Hausswolff's audiovisual works have also found outlets in pictorial art.
Hausswolf has also created a series of social platforms, places where people can meet and consume. His “Thinner- and Low Frequency Bar” was used at the Momentum biennial in Moss, Norway, Prato, Italy and London and his “Glue- (Tobacco-) and High Frequency Lounge” was used in Geneva and in Prato. These works show Hausswolff’s critical view on the society’s hypocritical treatment of drugs and addiction. The audience could sniff the highly toxic substances thinner and contact glue while smoking cigarettes and getting penetrated by the either low or high sine wave tones.
In 1993 he and Leif Elggren developed the ever-lasting conceptual piece “The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland”. Here a new country was established in the world. Its territories was all border areas between every country, the No Man Land, mental territories such as the hypnagogue dream state and digital areas on the Internet.