November 16, 2008

Lotta Melin (SE)

Previous guest: Coreographer, performace artist and dancer Lotta Melin stayed at Creators Inn by Elvine while rehearsing a play at Atalante.

November 13, 2008

Artur Moustafa (SE)

Designer Artur Moustafa is co-founder of Swedish furniture manufacturer Vujj but has recently focused on sustainability issues with his new company Able Global Solutions trying to gap the void between creatives and the eco-tech innovation sector. Artur stayed at the Creators Inn by Elvine lab while in Gothenburg to present at Pecha Kucha GBG vol. #10 at club Nefertiti.

You are trying to gap the void between creatives and the eco-tech innovation sector. How are you going about that and what do hope to gain as a result? We want eco-tekkies to see the benefits of teaming up with the creative sectors so that they can reach out to existing and emerging markets and compete with the same means as current flush and forget paradigm driven actors do.

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October 5, 2008

Elvine’s staff (SE)

It was our shortest stay so far. As a part of their kick-off, clothing brand Elvine’s staff dropped by an hour to experience their Creators Inn first hand, while enjoying some sparkling wine and signing the guestbook.

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September 29, 2008

Philarmonix aka Dairmount (BE)

Phil is a Belgian Dj/producer living in Hamburg who stayed at Creators Inn by Elvine while in Gothenburg to play at legendary night club Neferiti. He’s label manager at Finetunes and also starting up his own label called A room with a view.

We spoke to Phil about his close relationship to Gothenburg and the music scene here, where he mentioned artists like Hird, St Göran, Jor-El, Andreas Saag and Yukimi Nagano, and how staying at Creators Inn by Elvine made him feel like he had come full circle.

September 26, 2008

Patrick & Peter (SE)

Previous guests. Patrick Sobieski, filmproducer and Peter Pontikis, writer/director stayed in the room while in Gothenburg to shoot scenes for their movie “Vampyrer” (”Not like others”).

You were in town shooting scenes for your vampire movie. How did that turn out?
Very well! Couldn’t be happier about it.

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September 20, 2008

Olof Olsson (SE/DK)

Copenhagen based artist Olof Olsson brought his own blanket, matching his scarves, in order to put a personal touch on the room while staying at Creators Inn by Elvine. Olof was in Gothenburg giving a beloved 6 minute and 40 second speech at Pecha Kucha GBG where he talked about some of his solo projects, along with some Esperanto projects he had done together with Daniel Salomon under the name La Loko.

Olof, the Gothenburg crowd really loved your speech at Pecha Kucha GBG. How was the performance from your point of view? What I found most interesting was the time aspect of it. As I remember it, I was on just before the break, so I had watched some of the other guys. And I got a sense of how long a 6 minute 40 second presentation is. But when you are on stage yourself, those 6 minutes and 40 seconds are something completely different. One could say that the time passes much faster, but that does not completely capture how it feels. It is more like being in another kind of time. Like swimming is different from walking.

How was club Nefertiti?
I like the venue very much. The club can house quite a lot of people, but atmosphere is very intimate. There is a very good connection between the stage and the audience.

You have done several conceptual projects somewhat similar to Creators Inn by Elvine – how is this in comparison to what you’ve been invloved in before and how do you think the project can be improved? Creators Inn is playing with fiction and reality in a way I often also do. On the one hand it’s a fictive hotel. On the other hand it’s a real hotel. And the realism and the fiction and the reality of the fiction drift in an out of eachother in a very fun and thought provoking way. I very much enjoyed my stay, and I loved the spectacular view. The only thing I missed was the possibility to make a cup of coffe in the morning.

You always bring your own blanket when you are out traveling, how come?
It’s a practical thing to have, if I for instance want to take a nap on the train. And it also gives a sense of being at home, wherever you are. The last two years I have moved around between different places in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. And apart from that, I have travelled a lot. Bringing the blanket along gives a sense of continuation.

Any other interesting projects lined up, or any other closing thoughts?
Right now I am working on a project for an exhibition in New Zealand called Mash Up.

September 16, 2008

Momus (UK)

Previous guests. Artist, songwriter, blogger and intellectual Momus (UK) stayed in the room while in Gothenburg to speak at Pecha Kucha GBG and perform at Cheesy Not Cheesy. He lived to blog about it here and here.

What was your first impression of Gothenburg despite the shitty budget airline airport?
I imagined Ingmar Bergman, dressed as Santa, riding down the main street of Gothenburg in a troika, three horses abreast.

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September 2, 2008

Niklas Åström (SE)

Niklas Åström (SE) needed a place to stay before going on tour with his multi instrumental, epic and explosive post-rock band EF and then moving to Hong Kong. Here seen unpacking his bags at Creators Inn by Elvine.

What is creativity to you?
Creativity for me is to create, to me, something totally new, something challenging, without limitations and rules. To fulfill myself with some kind of new “knowledge” – that makes me grow as a person, as a creator.

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August 23, 2008

Martin Bundock (UK)

Martin Bundock is PR director at A.W.B. and also does the PR for Vice Magazine Scandinavia. Photo above by Kuba Rose.

Martin Bundock, you seem to be everywhere all the time. How many of you are there? and what do they all do? In ‘this’ business perception is everything… alas only 1 but I have a fantastic team backing me up.

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August 19, 2008

The Vibrarians (US)

Our partner Koloni invited The Vibrarians (US) to play during Göteborg Dance & Theatre Festival. During their stay in Gothenburg The Vibrarians stayed at Creators Inn by Elvine. Pictured above are the girls prior to their gig at Röhsska Design museum.