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 [...]
By Craig Wilson The point of surrealist poetry is not to simply write something off the wall or weird...it's to break down the walls between your conscious and unconscious mind, to integrate different levels of the mental personality by tapping into the continuous stream of images flowing beneath the conscious threshold of the psyche. The [...]
“We shall, at great expense, set at the bottom of the water machines that have ceased to serve, and also a few others that began to serve, and it is a pleasure to see the mud voluptuously paralyzing what functioned so well. We are the creators of wrecks…We take our post of aquatic command of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
“To have only a few years left on earth as a man is really no cause for alarm. Already I have begun considering the virtues of frogdom, and my only complaint is that I may not be able to report the last stages of my transformation. On the other hand, the oscillatory nature of the [...]
