SWEDISH SURREALISM

TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF SURREALISM BOREAL;
– a reasoned chronology in three parts of surrealist initiatives and some parallels
in Sweden (with outlooks to its neighbouring countries)

Mattias Forshage

Part 1
When the artists and writers were still searching 1924-50 – the introduction of surrealism and the early encounters with the surrealist movement


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POETRY
Riyota Kasamatsu - Askew clang blind bang
John Andersson - There's a nightly rainbow
John Andersson - A master confesses
EL and Fantom - Exquisite cadaver
Collectively - Nicolas Flamel’s Journeys
NN, MF, RK - Three poems from The Vagrant#1 2000
Merl Fluin - Between the Exhibits
Merl Fluin - Poetic Standpoints
Merl Fluin - Loveletters to Rumpelstiltskin
Emma Lundenmark - Translation from an Imaginary Language 
Emma Lundenmark - The Chair About the Sound Macrabet
Emma Lundenmark - Wings (Into the Open Field)
Mattias Forshage - The Future of Polar Research
Mattias Forshage - Tesseract 2, My Elusive Polish Offices
Mattias Forshage - Train Poems 
Robert Lindroth - Automatism / Unexpected Directions



COLLECTIVE DECLARATIONS:


Scream in the sack - from Lucifer 2000
Open letter to Guy Girard - discussing Guy Girard´s constructive critique of "The Scream in the Sack", 1999
Voices of the Hell Choir (HTML) - aspects of contemporary surrealist activity, its modes of rhetoric and its ludicism, 2003, VotHC Integral edition (PDF) 

EDITORIALTEXTS FROM THE VAGRANT:
* 1- 4, 2000-2003

EDITORIAL TEXTS FROM STORA SALTET:
* C-M Edenborg: Matter - Nr 1, june 1995
* Mattias Forshage: Geography - Nr 2, sept. 1995
* Bruno Jacobs: Scars - Nr 3, dec. 1995
* Aase Berg: Ruage - Nr 4, march 1996
* Mattias Forshage & Aase Berg: Surrealism in the Ulterior Times - Nr 4, march 1996
La Source Bouchée (en français; in french) - about the jubilee of the swedish state church, 1993 
Paper, Scissors, Stone?- surrealism and politics, 1995 
The Smoke of the Dignity of Man - about man-movements and neo-fascism, 1995 
The Public Sphere and Curiosity- from 1991 Surrealists, 1995 


VARIOUS THEORETICAL TEXTS

No Music! - Johannes Bergmark, 2004.
Butoh - Revolt of the Flesh in Japan and a Surrealist Way to Move, 1991. With introduction 2008 and appendix 1993 - Johannes Bergmark
Labors of Existence - Merdarius
Surrealism is a Shrimp - Merdarius, 2008
Surrealism and Science - Merdarius, 2008
The surrealist bestiary - Mattias Forshage, 2009
To the question of surrealism and women - Mattias Forshage, 2008
What about the surrealismologists - Mattias Forshage
Soluble locus - Mattias Forshage, 2008 
Surrealism and the holy 'nuff - Jonas Enander, 2008
Atheism as the metaphysics of experience - Niklas Nenzén, 2008                                                                The place of the soul- John Andersson and Niklas Nenzén, 2006
Contribution to the investigation of the tropes of pansexuality - Mattias Forshage, 2004
Worthless Places (Atoposes) - Mattias Forshage, 2004
Fragments sur le vandalisme - la pertinence sociale de l'asocial - Mattias Forshage, Lucifer 2000
A reminder of the desire simulation industry, the mechanisms of recuperation and the battle over the advertising space referred to as der Geist - Mattias Forshage, from Lucifer 2000
Call For The Hidden Sounds - Johannes Bergmark, 1994-95
For A Wild Music - Johannes Bergmark, 1993
Roxanne (en français; in french) - pornography and alchemy - Carl-Michael Edenborg
The Situation of Sexuality Today or the Sublimization of the Production of Children - Johannes Bergmark, from Kvicksand 1 1989.


GAMES AND EXPERIMENTS

An enquiry from the bewitched -  Answering questions by anagramming them, 2007                                           The firefly in the peppermint rock hand - successive pattern interpretation, from Lucifer 2000
Phenomenology of fear - A spontaneous interpretative exploration of fears in pictures and in words, 2004. 
Objectification of Morals - Language-materialistic renegotiation of abstract concepts, from Lucifer, 2000
Animal Walks - Identifying with a random animal while taking a walk, 2007
Casa Synestetica- Constructing a surrealist house by the means of synesthesia, 2006

Exploration of an island - geographic game - the subjectivisation of material topography,1999