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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Absence is its own kind of presence. Uncertainty and breakdown of categorical delineation is a space of possibility. -Ghost Paper Archives The “After People” project is fascinating new collective mythological endeavor from a group called the Ghost Paper Archives. A kind of game played across different locations in which the reporters explore, photograph, characterize and [...]
A translation of a recent dedication by Joël Gayraud for Michel Zimbacca. The original french text follows below. For Michel Zimbacca In reply to the stifling question from the teacher: “Well kids! What do you want to be when you grow up?” one raises his hand and says: “Hairdresser!”, “Pilot”, “Lawyer!” “Firefighter!”... Only a single [...]
Michel Zimbacca 29 July 1924 - April 1 2021 Screenshots from the film L’Invention du monde (Michel Zimbacca & Jean-Louis Bédouin, 1953) (subtitles translated by Kenneth Cox) Quetzalcoatl, le serpent emplumé (Michel Zimbacca, 1952) Ni d'Eve, ni d'Adam (Michel Zimbacca, 1969) * A touching and very enthralling tribute from Joël Gayraud can be read here [...]
Open letter to academic students of surrealism By Mattias Forshage 1. We share a passion. But we are on different sides of a fence. We started off with some kind of negotiating back in ’66 in Cerisy under the recognition that we represented very different approaches to the same topic but possibly should be able [...]
The film selected for this game was done so before any of the participants had seen it or knew much about it. The questions were compiled relatively quickly based on associations, chance, random ideas—risking everything on certain weird hopes and projections, and trusting that they would all in one way or another find their mark. [...]
