Works

Limp Wrist


2012

3 tables, 54 C-prints,  HD video 1 mins (loop), wax, x-ray, archival documents and facsimile. One common result of limp wristing is a failure  to eject, as the slide will be moving too slowly at the point where the ejector is activated[…]

In Limp Wrist, documentation and indexing are used as performative acts to trace the origins of the term ‘Limp Wrist’. Using three large tables as structure, materials such as text, photographic documentation and artefacts from a queer/Spanish hardcore band, material from a military context explaining how to deal with an inability to fire a weapon, are combined with a suite of reenacted/restaged photographs based on portraits of people connected to an extended queer/feminist field. An inherent normative linguistic history reveals itself, and a more multifaceted meaning of the expression ‘Limp Wrist’ is unveiled.

Limp Wrist consists of four parts: Becoming, Instruction, Rage and the short film sequence Room 217 in the Morning.

Limp Wrist: Becoming (Gregg), c-print.
Limp Wrist: Becoming (Candy), c-print.
Limp Wrist: Becoming, detail. Alingsås Konthall, 2012. Photo: Conny Karlsson Lundgren.
Limp Wrist: Becoming, detail. Alingsås Konthall, 2012. Photo: Conny Karlsson Lundgren.
Installation view, Alingsås Konsthall, 2012. Photo: Conny Karlsson Lundgren,

Exhibitions: Alingsås Konsthall, Alingsås SE. 2 x Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm SE.
Public Collections: Gävleborg County Art Collection, Gävle SE. Haninge Municipality Art Collection, Haninge SE.

 ©MMXIV Conny Karlsson Lundgren