Some Measurements
“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.” -G.C. Lichtenberg Length [...]
Surr-prophecies for 2020
Back in December 2019, a few of us played a game of Surr-prophecies for 2020. The results, perhaps, are not totally off the mark... January: Cruise ships become infested with juvenile hedgehogs & possum, leading [...]
Look In On Our Nature By Justin Orlando
The following game text was sent to us by Justin Orlando Though we may differ in various facets of belief, we are united by a common quest. The liberation of the imagination, the irrational and [...]
The Eyelid – S.D. Chrostowska
Now available from Coach House Books and bookstores, a stunning new journey into the oneiric wonderland from S.D. Chrostowska: In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the [...]
Origami by Merl Fluin
“Either this is madness or it is hell.’ ‘It is neither,’ replied the voices of the sphere, ‘it is simply more reality.” Fresh on the heels of Mattias Forshage's new novel... Another surrealist, dimension-hopping novella [...]
End of the Railway, Beginning of the World by Mattias Forshage
A story about everyday life in the Arctic, and more specifically the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. At the far end of the railroad, the world begins. Once there, you can’t be sure which is [...]
The Star Opens Slowly: Dreams, Poems, and Other Things
Casi Cline has recently released a new book "The Star Opens Slowly: Dreams, Poems, and Other Things", a collection of texts spanning the years 2015-2019. A Mormyrid Double! Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/w8shhua
SURREALISM IN THE STREETS
by Craig Wilson Originally published in the Arabic-language surrealist journal "The Room" Urban exploration has been an important part of surrealism since the movement’s early days as you can see in Breton’s Nadja or Aragon’s [...]
An Open Call For The Socialization Of Delusions from the Ottawa Surrealist Group
We believe surrealists are still seeking, in their many courses, that elusive document: the New Declaration of The Rights of All People…Letters of green worms on an obsidian parchment… A fundamental axiom in this document-to-come [...]
The Object Beautician
Ottawa Surrealist Group is pleased to announce that they have just hatched a new little book of surrealist games, inquiries and other oddities with Peculiar Mormyrid Press: You can order it online from here: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ottawa-surrealist-group/the-object-beautician-and-other-terrors/paperback/product-1gqddgjg.html [...]
Films played at the Bodyshop
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A surrealist almanac for 2020? Call for Submissions by Tim White
For many of us 2019 has been a shitty, disappointing and often depressing year. Too many lows to list here from around the world. In my country the east coast is on fire, a climate-change [...]