Homage to Pipilotti Rist and Kevin Coyne, 2008

In “You Called Me Jacky”, Rist mimes to a Kevin Coyne song, interspersing the images with shots of passing scenery viewed from a train window. As Rist, Hallberg creates a remix of fantasy and the everyday. While Rist mimes to the late great Kevin Coyne’s Jackie and Edna, looking like a cross between Annie Lennox and George Formby, Hallberg performs his own singing playing up the icon status. As in Rist, the simplicity of this video is what makes it so endearing and an enigmatic and emotive piece.

Niclas explains that what brought him to create his piece was the love for Rist’s work and that his homage it is not a copy, but it conveys the same thought and feelings as her piece. And follows by saying that his intention was to make it as similar as possible to the original, singing, performing and playing the guitar himself.

text Alicia Felberbaum, m o m e n t emagazine