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PRESENTATION

Artist: Ushiri Stenberg
Latest publication: in Swedish Comics/culture magazine Galago nr 35, Fontänmagasinet Malmö, Mosaic clubhouse newsletter

What is your carrot for creativity?
The reason is to push out all those crazy ideas inside of my head so I can survive mentally, It is a must so I won´t kill myself.

I like to provoke and make people laugh and cry, and above all think for themselfs instead of just follow the mainstream that leads into the eternal emptyness, This is my carrot.

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Inspiration:
I like the french clean lines very much, especially those by Giraud/Moebius. Robert Crumb is also a longstanding inspiration with his exceptional crosshatching. Another artist I enjoy to look at is Arthur Rackam and of course the fantastic Swedish horror artist Hans Arnold.
Another source for inspiration is people on instagram that randomly stumbles into my channel there which I quite often make portraits randomly of. I like Antiheroes, those give me much inspiration

But the most inspiring of all is actually the stupidity of humanity and being a part of our selfdestruction which seems quite close now. I like to be part of this since I very much enjoy chaos.

Creations of mine:
Hello Fitty/Clitty
Penisbear loves you
Carrottribe
Bible3000 techno comicsmagazine with cd
Boardgames:
Nuke Norway Now – with Norwegian SS-zombies expansion and soundtrack
Little snail watch your tail – dynamic kids boardgame with music cd
Galactic worms – Psychadelic tactical wormwarfare to destroy the galaxy
Dictator memory – memory game with all favorite dictators
Manga Hitler loves you! – A cute version of Hitler
Manga Mao loves us! – A cute version of Mao
Matches of death

Matches for kids – An ongoing artproject in many languages

Slowdating project – For the senior citizens of Malmö

Flashmob – I arranged the first flashmob in Malmö 2007

Integrated about whats happening in society?
No I don´t feel like I´m a part of it even though I live in the middle of Swedens third biggest town. I haven´t watched tv since 2003, I was feed up about commercial and reality shows. Right now I´m looking at Gunsmoke a black and white western show from 1955. I also reguarly watch: Adventure time,Voltron,Camp Lazlo, Clarence,Rick & Morty,LIVE ( Korean police drama), Happy. I also love documentaries about conflicts, costume dramas and very much all sorts of horror and splatter and non american movies tv-shows and my fav gamer youtubechannels. I have not bought a newspapers since 2005, its to many boring news about death, dying is nothing new and is a part of life, why write it all the time then ?

Drugs: —- EXPAND ON THIS SECTION—-

A question quite frequently asked, No coffe is my only drug. Many times over the years I when I´ve been to techno parties I´ve been offered substsances of unknown happyness but my mind has allways been psychadelic so it has not been needed.

Do you fight for something?
I like to promote the organisation ” Fontänhuset” (Clubhouse international outside Sweden) which aims to help people with mental issues to give them better life quality.

I´m quite interested in pushing genus and being a part of equality between the sexes, I think its a sad world when men has more power than females. It´s stupid in modern times. In Sweden the fight for equality have not been take so seriously from a religious perspective and is much needed to make a stand for in a not to distant future. Females and men are 100% equal, this should not go backwards in time and is not open for debate.

Hobbies?
My hobby is to occupy my brain with ideas that are not selfdestructive, boredom is my nemesis and when it hits me with monotonical patterns I get extremly low and lack all energy for continue living.

I write articles, short stories, comics, make radio interviews, develope boardgames, illustrate articles, draw, paint, play boardgames,videogames, inlines, weighttraining. I like to watch medieval combat, horsesport, rollerderby.

Biggest challenges in life?
I´m quite often exhausted because of all things I see during daytime since I can´t stop seeing all details. Sleepdeprevation is a big part of my depression also I have huge trouble eating which I think is the most unecessary in life together with eating.

Secondly is that nobody sees that I´m a very troubled soul and that I can´t let the mask of happyness fall from my face. To stay in this life and not leave is hard.

Background:
I have been drawing since I was 4 years old or earlier, my first strong memory of my artwork was when my mother was crying hard because I had redecorated the bathroom with a black marker, I asked her ” Don´t you think it looks nice? ”. Good times good times.

Any music you listen to when you create?
I allways get energy out of total chaos in full speed so much Gabberhouse, Splittercore and techno sound overal. Also quite much German synth music. Psychdelic japanese 70ies funk, C64 SID music,Chiptunes + remakes of them, Big lover of Cab Calloway the fantastic jazz scatsinger, dancer, and bandleader. folk music from all over the world modern jazz. Nina Hagen, Diamanda Galas, NOS an fantastic techno musician/backdrop artist from my town in Malmö Sweden.

Weekly listening:
Би-2, IC3PEAK,Codedecoded, Marika Rossa, Tommy Lee sparta,Splittercore

Other musicians enjoy
Mirel Wagner,Marika Rossa – Techno dj,Felix Kröcher – Techno dj,Alfred Schnittke – My number one classic postmodernistic composer,Delia Derbyshire,Dubravko Detoni-Grafika – Experimental avantgarde classical composer,Zoe Keating – Cello player,IC3PEAK the russian futuristic audiovisional terror opera band.,Eye Hate god – Fantastic reverbmusic,Rummelsnuff,Dino Merlin,Ada Grahovic,NOS,Jelena Karleusa,Goran Bregovic,Gogol Bordello,Punjabi techno,Hatari – Icelandic synth bdsm band
Tommy Lee Sparta – Jamaican hiphopartist,СПИРИТ – Good Russian hiphop,АИГЕЛ – Good Russian hiphop,Gamora Serezha – Good Russian hiphop,Dubravko Detoni,Röda bönor – Strong,Swedish feminist 1970s proggband,Rings of saturn
Nice synthbands:,Deathstars,Seelennacht,Lord of the lost,Blutengel,God module,DAF,Eisbrecher
Lindemann – The leadsinger from Rammstein with less mainstream music,Deichkind – German hiphop,Shortparis,Necrophone,The residents,Antikvariniai,Nada,Oratnitza – Fantastic folkfusionband from Bulgaria,Die antwoord,Verka Serduchka
VOMITOLOGY – Deathmetal of sorts,Codedecoded – Experimental death/brutaldeath metal,Brutal truth -Deathmetal,Death – Iconic deathmetal band,Ahvaz,Alchemist project,LSD,The Kelly,family,Cyber (with Hatari),Jinjer,Arch enemy,Tcheep,Ylvis,Nirvana 2002 ,The HU – Throatsinging metal band,Darkeys & The keys – Indian Michael Jackson inspired metallband,Bloodywood – Indian folk metal,GZUZ – German hiphop,IC3PEAK – audiovisuell futuristisk terror opera where you can completely go inside yourself.

Is there something you really dispice?

Manipulative people, animals I can stand. People who waste my time and selfish enough about to not know when its the right time to say ” I´m sorry”. Thats the biggest goodbye to being a part of my life. Also proud people that can not admit when they are wrong, those are the weakest that also think they are so strong which is kind of a funny paradox. Monotony, I get extremly high anxiety and feel very bad inside. Thats the worst thing in life. Also authority, because I dont accept anyone who thinks they are above.

Growing up —- EXPAND ON THIS SECTION—-

Coming exhibition: December2020 Ölcafeét Malmö 2020. Samt en
Ideell samarbetsutställning på Drottninggatans allmänpsykiatri.

Kontakt: ushiriATgmail.com @ushiri_stenberg

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