A captivating new book of images and texts (or should we say, charms?) has appeared under the appropriate title of Verbomancy. A new kind of inverse prophecy appears here by means of a strange game. Rather than simply combine images and text in a predictable manner, Sasha Vlad began by finding or creating images [...]
You’d have thought what with all the attention over the years, the surrealists would have pretty much hit the bottom in terms of “enlargements” for certain films. Surely Edna Romney’s 1948 cacklefest The Corridor of Mirrors has been done to death? And yet, it just happens that, while giving it a go on a cold [...]
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 [...]
(A Game from Anthony Redmond) “Too many Captain Cooks” -Rembarrnga man, Paddy Wainburrangga In 2020, as colonial Australia commemorates its founding myth on the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Capt. James Cook’s death ships along the eastern seaboard of Australia and New Zealand, a global revolt is erupting against state violence in settler colonies. [...]
It's very exciting to see that the catalogue for the Archaeology of Hope, an international surrealist game, exhibition and ritual held on the Isle of Wight in 2017, is now available from Head Louse Press. This gorgeous catalogue contains many strange and shocking wonders from the surrealist future. "The Archaeology of Hope was launched on the [...]
