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 And here is a free PDF version: https://peculiarmormyrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ottawa_1.pdf
liberation in three parts THE LIBERATION OF THE WORLD “Amok” is the most beautiful word that we have. What better? Under Amok, Empire is finally seen true. Is discovered as mere opening out onto void. As the worst kind of tulpa. Real life? Elsewhere. Our slavish despair is soon transmuted—into joyous rage. We find the [...]
STEVE MORRISON SEBASTIÁN JIMÉNEZ GALINDO AARON DYLAN KEARNS HOUSE OF MYSTICUM STEVE MORRISON
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 fueled unnatural disaster that the reprehensible state and federal politicians are blatantly pretending isn’t happening. Yes, I’m aware too of [...]
Documentation, editing, structure: Aaron Dylan Kearns Broken iPhone videography: Martin E. Kearns Featuring: Steven Cline, Casi Cline, Mattias Forshage, Jason Abdelhadi, Steve Morrison, Megan Leach, Ladonna Smith Music: Tim White, Craig S. Wilson, The Bim Prongs, Casi Cline, Fluxnois (Post-credits sequence) Animation: Aaron Dylan Kearns Runtime: 40:03
Tis the season? July 3rd, 2018. This was the date of my very first sighting, the first hint of the shadow to come. I’d found its birthsack in south Georgia, on the second floor of a decrepit, water damaged old building. Not a snowflake in sight, either—just a rare white mold. Unfortunately i’d missed the [...]
Out into the world to see Who’s Who and What’s Not -Count Screwloose In baseball parlance, a “screwball” is the opposite of a “straight pitch”, that is, a trick play, an unforeseen or erratic tactic. The screwy, at its most basic, is a form of energy, something simultaneously marvellous, explosive, and, as a consequence of [...]
A new book by Joël Gayraud is available here L’Homme sans horizon At the beginning of the millennium, after the collapse of the Eastern bloc, the horizon of humanity has been abruptly shuttered. On an overexploited and mutilated planet, where no one believes in progress, capitalism appears as an unsurpassable frontier. Dangled as a lure, [...]
“Only by despairing, and then despairing of despair, can mankind begin truly to see and to act consciously in the service of the marvelous. This preliminary violation of the rules prepares the way for an entirely new game, our game, know as subversion, sublime love, the exaltation of freedom." - Lighthouse of the Future Manifesto, [...]
Recently we have seen a wave, an inflation of events and exhibitions called “surrealist.” One of its characteristics is the notable presence of sponsorship logos, most of them representing more or less official cultural institutions. We note the participation of more and less well-known, including some repulsive people from the academic world. In other words: [...]
