SURREALISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

INTRODUCTION The marvelous here reveals itself in light of a surrounding aura of fertile life-and-death excess, brought on by an alchemy of merciless heat and humidity, storms, past military rule and cultural ruin. - Davey Williams, Arsenal #4 The American south is a weird place, filled to the brim with weird people. Yes, it’s a [...]

2023-09-17T12:34:22+00:00November 5th, 2022|Essay|

COMPUTER WITCH: HEXED TECH EXEGESIS

Technical possibility, if appropriately misinterpreted, is also an opening for the spectral imagination. My new favourite piece of speculative "Halloween Tech" (that is, perhaps, technology specifically engineered to facilitate haunting) is the Computer Witch. I discovered the Computer Witch, appropriately enough, while randomly watching a low resolution internet upload of the 1977 cartoon Halloween special [...]

2022-10-30T18:13:58+00:00October 30th, 2022|Essay, Film, Object|

Mumbling Planet – Podcast by The Atlanta Surrealist Group

On Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/…/mubling…/id1644539305), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3mdmnoe6fXDoa101FpL9eT), and other major podcast platforms. Episode 1: This, the inaugural episode of the surrealist podcast Mumbling Planet, includes FOUR marvels for your listening P L E A S U R E… A three-way cosmic interlocution, a glimpse through chthonic doors, a group juggling of sound and intestines, and a [...]

2023-02-04T15:23:55+00:00September 10th, 2022|News|

Undertakers & Underselves: A Surrealist Excavation

October 20-23 Atlanta, Georgia No Tomorrow Gallery (50 Upper Alabama Street) Event Schedule To Be Announced Shortly Surrealist exhibition, objects, games and events; Rituals, séances and magic! Communications beyond the ordinary channels! Readings and guided tours of the underground object museum, its wonders and its dangers! Musical entertainment for the benefit of soothing the unhinged [...]

2022-08-28T19:37:33+00:00July 31st, 2022|News|

ROBERT GREEN – PLEASE SOLICIT, TRESPASS AND LOITER!

To Loiter: To delay an activity with aimless idle stop and pauses; Dawdle, to remain in an area for no obvious reason: hang around, to lag behind. Loiterer...  Loitering is a crime, prosecutable and enforceable in many cases. It is most associated with private property rights along with soliciting and trespassing, but often, it is [...]

2022-07-19T23:51:02+00:00July 19th, 2022|Essay|

THE DEAD END GAME

Times are desperate. We often hear talk of the “end of the world” as a moment, or an event, that occurs dramatically—the terminal point of humanity, life, the planet, the solar system etc. Yet both myths and cartoons teach us that the end of the world is not so much an event as it is [...]

2022-07-12T19:35:32+00:00July 12th, 2022|Games|

Vaudeville Joujouka

by Steven Cline The words in this book are spells. Spells. Yes, I mean this most sincerely. They leave little trace on Upthere Overmind. Ha, they swim right past that old tyrant. And they head straightaway down, on towards that treasured Undermind, towards Undermind’s longest left ear. It is here that they then lay all [...]

2022-06-26T04:16:08+00:00June 26th, 2022|News|

Egregore Documentary

https://vimeo.com/709334938 Featuring: Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Juli Maria Kearns, Megan Leach, Steve Morrison Egregore soundscape: Hazel Cline, Martin Kearns Egregorrhea #6 - Surrealist Egregores, Or, How To Take A Collect Call Collectively written by Jason Abdelhadi and narrated by Juli Maria Kearns Film, editing, original background music: Aaron Dylan Kearns [...]

2022-05-15T11:19:50+00:00May 15th, 2022|Film|
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