Egregore – The Exhibit Book
An exhibition by the Atlanta Surrealist Group. In the eclipse of Me within We, a marvelous Egregore waits. Don’t keep it waiting. Full Color Book B&W Book Free PDF Download Issuu Link Soundscape
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
LA RÉVOLUTION INTERDIMENSIONNEL
“But I gotta, kn-kn-kn-know what-what's your fan-ta-ta-sy” - Ludacris PART 1: ANDRÉ & THE ALIENS New Mexico, 1942. On a dusty road between Taos, and Roswell… Deep Night. And in our great solitude, we orbit. We? We, the translucents. The wireframe ones. We, the thousand-years young. The still air shifts beneath us—a car is seen [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Cage for Every Child – S.D. Chrostowska
News on the horizon of a new book of stories from S.D. Chrostowska that are bound to be of interest to marvel hunters everywhere as well as anyone who enjoyed her previous oneirico-utopian novel The Eyelid or her book of incendiary fragments. Here is the intriguing description from the publisher's page: A hunter of giant [...]