A bewildered looking Wimpy on a melancholic grey beach, with a darkening sky. Unlike his usual outfit he has a stovepipe hat on and is carrying a bundle possibly full of coal. We are advised by a narrator the as of now he is a “sleepball”... Newly spawned from the hydrothermal vents of Peculiar Mormyrid [...]
Inventar By Dan Stanciu and Sasha Vlad 96 pages of poetic texts in Romanian, with illustrations Published by Locul Tare 2022 We are very pleased to note a new collaborative project from Dan Stanciu and Sasha Vlad, Inventar. The Romanian title means "Inventory". It represents a collection of invented "objects" that was obtained through the [...]
Amok! by Steven Cline is out now with essays on Surrealism, Busby Berkeley, Santa Claus, Guinea Pig 6: Mermaid in the Manhole, the initiatory aspect of haunted houses, the eroticism of dinosaurs, π, revolution as a magickal working, and more. Available for order here
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
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—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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
