JOHAN URBAN BERGQUIST

Bergquist is an Oslo-based artist who works with drawing, sound art, performance, installations and sculpture. For the Treenial he performs in downtown Joshua Tree’s Art Queen as his alter ego Count Pukebeard. The references in Bergquist’s works are many and disparate, exploring alternative realities and states of mind. Themes include: dreams, mysticism, occultism, supernatural and unexplained phenomena, alchemy and more. His performances are improvised, non-linear and surreal. Bergquist maintains that as Pukebeard “the superego has long since lost control and the subconscious now controls his actions and choices.”

Artist website: johanurban.net