{"product_id":"qualis-artifex-pereo","title":"Qualis artifex pereo","description":"Qualis artifex pereo ? translated What an artist the world loses in me, was the dying words of the infamous Roman emperor Nero. The phrase here marks what Bo I Cavefors and Martin Bladh through their performance-series The Theatre of the Decadence of Cruelty for several years have manifested: the close proximity between staged debauchery and oppressive violence transformed through artistic self-exploration; how humiliation can be handled when converted into enjoyment, sexual absolutism and a strict acceptation of its most profound consequences: sperm, blood and the crack of the whip; and in the end, the question: what is sensation in itself? One answer that is presented in this work is that sensation is a violent physical overload, an attack on the nervous system best handled completely naked, when one is bleeding and disappearing into sexual ecstasy.\n\nSTYX förlag presents\nQUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO - a book and a DVD.\n\nThe book includes:\n? a manifesto\n? essays by the artists\n? in-depth interviews:\nCavefors on Cavefors by Johannes Flink\nBladh on Bladh by Peter Sotos\ndiscussing the nature of their art and their drives\n? 9 color collages by M.Bladh\n? a poem by M.Bladh\nintersected by a text amalgam\nbased on works of Georges Bataille\n? original action scores for the performance pieces\n? the work INJURY\n\nThe DVD includes two performance pieces:\nQUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO\n(40 min) performed and filmed in Malmö, 8th of June 2008.\nActors: Bo I. Cavefors, Martin Bladh, Erica Li Lundqvist, Johanna Rosenqvist.\nFilm: Aryan Kaganof.\nAfrican Noise Foundation in association with Grymhetens Teater Dekadens\nMusic: Martin Bladh\nSound engineer:\nMikael Oretoft\n\nQUALIS ARTIFEX PEREO ? FINIS\n(27 min) performed and filmed in Norrköping, 12th of June 2009.\nActors: Bo I. Cavefors, Martin Bladh, Johan Adolphi, Mikael Oretoft.\nFilm: Peter Andersson,\nLars Bosma\nMusic: Martin Bladh\n\nplus the extra feature\nINSULT - a video work\nby Martin Bladh (15 min)","brand":"Styx förlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32443506425956,"sku":"9789185747368","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/qualis-artifex-pereo","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}