Crazy Happy June 29 - July 30 Painted Scrolls by Rikki Ducornet & Sculpture by Margie McDonald Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA, 2017. In my book of essays, The Deep Zoo, I wonder: What if, just as the traces of our earliest forms persist encoded in our genes, a golden age persists deep within the [...]
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HOPE Objects excavated from the future Surrealist exhibition in a hut on Small Hope Beach, Shanklin Saturday 17 – Friday 23 June + SURREALIST SUMMER SOLSTICE an evening of talks, performances and experiments Wednesday 21 June, 7.30pm Ventnor Exchange Free admission
The Akasha Suite, a marvelous new collection of collage and writing has just been released by John Richardson. https://www.johnrichardsonsurreal.com/ 'An exquisite combination of text and image, in a fantastic voyage into the Unknown and the Visible/Invisible...' - Michael Löwy Save Save Save
ANDRÉ BRETON’S ARCANE 17: A LODESTAR FOR THE 21st CENTURY A CONTEMPORARY CELEBRATION is from an idea by Patrick Lepetit, John Richardson & John Welson and includes contributions from: Jean Bonnin, Miguel de Carvalho, Jean-Claude Charbonel, Neil Coombs, Guy Ducornet, Krzystoft Fijalkowski, Kathy Fox, Beth Garon, Paul Garon, Guy Girard, Mary Jacob, Patrick Lepetit, Rik [...]
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In the 1943 Surrealist ranking of mythic beasts, the chimera reached a respectable #2, just falling short of the sphinx but still on top of such heavy hitters as the sirens, the basilisk and the hydra. Nonetheless, it is our intent to underscore and celebrate the chimera’s role in the surrealist bestiary. Its virtues are [...]
Advice from Palmyra is part of a larger collective project from some of us in Ottawa called "Chimera in IPA". The results are below. - Jason Abdelhadi From Chimera in IPA #2 Chimera.IPA@gmail.com Save
Les Fondements de la Mécanique Céleste The Surrealist Group in Paris has just published the results of a stunning theatrical game played in 2014. Combining characters from their collective mythology with the aleatory and blindfolded methodology of an exquisite corpse, they have collectively composed a piece for the theatre that antagonizes everything we hate about [...]
Janice Hathaway's new exhibit, Fluid Solaris, is now on display! The accompanying book also looks fantastic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-g6WZA8cw Insects: Support the last film of Jan Švankmajer on Indiegogo now http://bit.ly/1sPCusx!
