DAN STANCIU & SASHA VLAD – INVENTAR

Inventar By Dan Stanciu and Sasha Vlad 96 pages of poetic texts in Romanian, with illustrations Published by Locul Tare 2022 We are very pleased to note a new collaborative project from Dan Stanciu and Sasha Vlad, Inventar. The Romanian title means "Inventory". It represents a collection of invented "objects" that was obtained through the [...]

2022-04-10T00:09:58+00:00April 8th, 2022|News|

AMOK!

Amok! by Steven Cline is out now with essays on Surrealism, Busby Berkeley, Santa Claus, Guinea Pig 6: Mermaid in the Manhole, the initiatory aspect of haunted houses, the eroticism of dinosaurs, π, revolution as a magickal working, and more. Available for order here

2022-02-28T16:56:06+00:00February 28th, 2022|News|

There Ain’t No Such Animal

A quiz program on the topic of surrealist exhibitions by Jason Abdelhadi If, as Hegel says, “at night all cows are black”, imagine how much more complicated the matter gets when it comes to exhibitions, which may contain a multitude of such animals and then some. Recently a certain “International Exhibition of Surrealism” seems to [...]

2021-11-13T20:57:06+00:00November 13th, 2021|Essay, Inquiry, News|

EGREGORE – An Exhibition by the Atlanta Surrealist Group

Egregore—a very strange beast. A spectral entity created inside the alchemical furnace of true collectivity, an external spirit which surpasses all its individual components. It is the “something more than”, it is the “space between”, which haunts all our activity. A trickster child that, once birthed, immediately overshadows its parents, creating a paradoxical new reality, [...]

2021-09-22T13:03:33+00:00September 11th, 2021|News|

WEEKLY ENTRAIL

Most rational people believe in evolution. Some rarer few believe in spontaneous combustion. Only the surrealist believes in the cheerful combination of both. This entails a certain concession to circumstances, to wit: you can’t please all of the complexes all of the time, but you can mitigate some irritants by regularly trepanning your alter ego. [...]

2021-08-30T23:59:37+00:00August 27th, 2021|News, Prose|

WEEKLY SPASM

Reports of nocturnal encounters with little furry cultural agents are increasing, typically in neighbourhood parking lots, back alleys and dumpsters. The animals in question may look cute and try to solicit sponsorships. “In fact,” says local art critic and rabies connoisseur Dr. Hackenbush, “they have a special secretory gland that emits a noxious miasma, that [...]

2021-08-27T18:52:14+00:00August 20th, 2021|News, Prose|

SECRETS & JOURNEYS – Mattias Forshage

SECRETS & JOURNEYS: Aspects of surrealist organising and integrity By Mattias Forshage Available for order here Aspects of surrealist organising and integrity. Four essays from winter 2020-2021 by Mattias Forshage. Including: * No secrets of a walk across the bog * A league of departure; Basis of surrealism, phylogenetically and ontogenetically * The concept of [...]

2021-07-15T22:26:36+00:00July 15th, 2021|News|

General Bibliography of Surrealism in Spanish

Bibliografía General del Surrealismo en Castellano; Surrealistas y preursores; Recepción en Europa y América Latina (General Bibliography of Surrealism in Spanish; Surrealists and precursors; reception in Europe and Latin America) By Juan Carlos Otaño Seriemusidora, Argentina: 2021. Contact: jcotano@archivosurrealista.com for any inquiries  Of note, a major new reference work on surrealist and pre-surrealist texts in [...]

2021-07-10T21:41:38+00:00July 9th, 2021|News|

Joël Gayraud – LES TENTATIONS DE LA MATIÈRE

Of note, an upcoming collection of poems by Joël Gayraud from Pierre Mainard editions, based on encounters with sculptures in the studio of the surrealist sculptor Virginia Tentindo. In (a translation) of the author’s own words: "When I first entered Virginia Tentindo's studio, it was like stepping through the looking glass. There, under a canopy [...]

2021-06-23T19:11:05+00:00June 22nd, 2021|News|
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