House of Mysticum
House of Mysticum, a surrealist group in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently launched a website to chronicle their collective activities. https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/
When the cat comes…
Kirsty Woods has started a new blog of marvelous "excess imagery" created by herself (and sometimes, Izzy the cat). http://whenthecatcomes.blogspot.com/
The Duck of Revolution Awakens
Dream of November 23, 2018: I am browsing the internet and come across a page entitled “Ducks of Cartersville”. The purpose of this page is to champion the revolutionary potential of ducks. I scroll the feed and see countless pictures of ducks, and people are discussing the revolutionary pros and cons of each duck in [...]
Mormyridean themes and games – an open letter…
A recent email from RW Spryszak allowed me to voice some thoughts on the question of Peculiar Mormyrid's themes and games, their uses and abuses... Hi RW, This has nothing to do with your sub which we haven’t read yet, but I wanted to send a personal side-note from me on the "theme" question, something [...]
Tourist Trap (1979) – Jason Abdelhadi
Automatic response after watching the film Tourist Trap (1979) Yes the broken manikin is the ending, this is a film about endings like all mannequins are in fact over and done with humans (wait, who with whom?) Discarded mentality is what this flurry of axes with makeup, how their lovely mouths flip open with a [...]
I Wagered Deep On The Run Of Six Rats To See Which Would Catch The First Fire
"Penelope Rosemont once said, “in a sense, all outsider art is surrealist art…” And this was the singular inspiration for this collection. Here, Surrealists are teamed with stalwarts of Fluxus, renegades that have no compass, as well as Outsiders who have rejected the false map of convention. “Be capable of the marvelous” was our call. [...]
Mariusze Figle
Mariusze Figle, a surrealist emergence from subcarpathian Poland. You can check out their blog here. mushrooms-man on the bank of great water separating two black lands at the moment of vision
Postscript from the Microscopic Life
This microscopic moment was spotted on June 10, 2018 by Guy Girard who was accompanying Jason Abdelhadi and Amber Craig through the marché aux puces in Saint-Ouen. Photo by JA.
Fresh Dirt Surrealist Sympatica
http://www.fresh-dirt.us/ Fresh Dirt, the deep South’s newest artistic collective researching practicing Surrealism in the 21st Century, will host an exhibition & creative soire’ in May! The collective is an offspring of previous incarnations, it’s member’s having originated activities as early as 1974 in Tuscaloosa, infamously known as Raudelunas, out of which birthed the first Birmingham [...]