DC's - He Stood In The Bath And He Stamped On The Floor: A Joe Meek Day
I'm very proud to announce that today is my Joe Meek Day on Dennis Cooper's blog: LINK
View ArticleHans Bellmer - La Poupée
La Poupée, 1936/1938Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 - 23 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and...
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Extract from Laura Ellen Joyce - The Museum of Atheism:Jed went in to his daughter’s bedroom as soon as he got home. He wondered what Ava might have heard in the night. Ava, darling? Jed called to her...
View ArticleEaux d'artifice
Eaux d'Artifice (Silk Lilies with Alexander McQueen Kingdom Eau de Toilette, Evian Water), 2004Eaux d'artifice (1953) is a short experimental film by Kenneth Anger. The film was shot in the Villa...
View ArticleThomas Schütte - United Enemies
United Enemy (detail), 1994Thomas Schütte (born November 16, 1954) is a German contemporary artist. From 1973 to 1981 he studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch under...
View ArticleDerek Jarman - Jubilee
Jubilee is a 1978 cult film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of punk rockers, including Adam Ant and Toyah. The title refers to the Silver Jubilee of...
View ArticleSalvador Dalí - Les Chants de Maldoror
Fertile Eyes III, 1934 Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de...
View ArticleCANNOT BE UNSEEN @ HMC: Trash Humpers - pictures
To the Hannah Maclure Centre this evening for the latest installment of CANNOT BE UNSEEN, "a Cinema Club that screens the odd, the unique, the cult, the camp, the rare, the kitsch, the trashy, the...
View ArticleOrtonandon Salonandon @ French Riviera, London 18-28.04.13
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh are pleased to present Ortonandon Salonandon at French Riviera, London.Ortonandon Salonandon is the final part of Embassy’s Annual Members Show Exchange 2013. The first part...
View ArticleReceipts
Bought a few items:Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (Capuchin Classics), £10.00http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8440101-the-man-who-loved-children Marquis de Sade - Juliette (Grove...
View ArticleBunker
Set up in 1992 by three white and Eurasian middle-class nerd punks who had just moved into the squat zone of central The Hague from the suburban new towns of Zoetermeer and Alphen a/d Rijn (where Rude...
View ArticleMarcel Duchamp - Rotoreliefs
Rotoreliefs, 1935Anemic Cinema or Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a Dadaist, surrealist, or experimental film made by Marcel Duchamp. The film depicts whirling animated drawings -- which Duchamp called...
View Articlean Armando Gallop primer
Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970, Chicago–December 17, 1996), who released material under his first name only, was an American house-music producer and DJ who...
View Articlea book is a performance @ DCA 24.04.13 - pictures
To the DCA this evening for a book is a performance, "an exhibition that showcases artists’ books and multiples to explore and expand the twin concepts of performance and performativity." The esteemed...
View ArticleIncapacitants
Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by...
View ArticleAlex Bag - Untitled Fall '95
Alex Bag (born 1969) in New York City is an artist working primarily in video. She currently resides in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.A performance video on art school, Fall '95 documents the fictionalized...
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Hans Bellmer - Untitled, 1960 Extract from Marquis de Sade - Juliette: What’s this! are manners and morals then more important than religions? Depending absolutely upon the degree of latitude in which...
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Bought a few items:Rachel Ingalls - Mrs. Caliban (Harvard Common Press), £0.01http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285591.Mrs_CalibanAdolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel (NYRB Classics),...
View ArticleJohanna Basford - Wonderlands @ DCA 03.05.13 - pictures
To the DCA this evening for the opening of 2005 Illustration graduate Johanna Basford's solo exhibition Wonderlands. The show is full of the sort of agonisingly tasteful fare I expected, right down to...
View ArticleperformingNOW! @ GENERATORprojects 04.05.13 - pictures
To the Generator this evening for performingNOW!, an open collaboration between artists working with performance and live art. I took a few photos and here they are:Tom Wallace - Animation...
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