Cissi Efraimsson

Published: July 27, 2023, 1:46 p.m.

Wag your tail to this one! Listen thru for the addicting pleasure of the song "WAG IT!"\n\nCissi Efraimsson is a Swedish LA-based artist and director working in the fields of stop motion animation, sculpture, painting and music.\n\nEfraimsson graduated the MFA program in Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts in May 2022. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2018.\n\nEfraimsson works at the borderline between reality and the surreal/supernatural. She often uses elements from folklore and places them in the real world, within a contemporary context inspired by pop culture. Efraimsson works on the border between the ordered and near-perfect and the skew and absurd. The atmosphere she creates is often a balance between the ugly and beautiful, and Efraimsson mines events and dialog from her own life \u2013 with a certain degree of twisting and turning. Recurring themes include fantasy, escapism, magic, and the subconscious, while humor and a playful energy course throughout everything Efraimsson creates.\n\nHer musical output is vast, and Efraimsson currently sings and drums in punk-pop trio Vulkano, having previously drummed in Those Dancing Days.\n\nVULKANO [https://www.instagram.com/vulkanotheband/]\xa0\n\nCissi [https://www.cissiefraimsson.com/about]\n\nSRTN Podcast [https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/]\n\nWag it, gonna wag it, gonna wag it, 4u . . .