Pawel Althamer   & Artur Żmijewski James Lee Byars Sophie Calle   & Fabio Balducci Center for Tactical Magic Peter Coffin Jennifer Cohen Anne Collier Christian Cummings Trisha Donnelly Douglas Gordon Brion Gysin Friedrich Jürgenson Joachim Koester Jim Lambie Miranda Lichtenstein Euan Macdonald Jonathan Monk Senga Nengudi Paul Pfeiffer Eva Rothschild Mungo Thomson All Artists Port-mortem portrait of Friedrich Jürgenson, 1987/2006 C-print (Photograph by Claude Thorlin) Presented by Carl Michael von Hausswolff Friedrich Jürgenson Archival recordings (1959-1987) Presented by Carl Michael von Hausswolff Courtesy The Friedrich Jürgenson Foundation FRIEDRICH JÜRGENSON (1903 – 1987) Though he worked as a painter and film director, Friedrich Jürgenson is best known as the pioneer of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). An initial field recording of local birdsongs, fueled by a passion for ornithology, led him to a 28-year study of what he believed were spirits communicating with us through sound recording technologies. He continued his work searching the origins of his voices that he believed to be deriven from the hypothetical afterlife until his death in Sweden in 1987. CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF (b. 1956, Linköping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been one of the two rulers of the imaginary kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland—consisting of “the Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital”—since its inception in 1992. A composer, visual artist, and curator, von Hausswolff has explored the intersections between radio frequency, electricity, and the paranormal. Hausswolff has become an expert on the work of his friend Friedrich Jürgenson, and is the Chairman of the Friedrich Jürgenson Foundation. He has been featured several times at the Venice Biennial (2001, 2003 & 2005), as well as in major exhibitions including documenta X (1997); Sound Art-Sound as Media, ICC, Tokyo (2000); and Portikus, Frankfurt (2004).