I was recently interviewed by Raul Antony for Heathen Harvest’s great podcast. More than an hour of interesting stuff, including plugs for my upcoming book OCCULTURE – THE UNSEEN FORCES THAT DRIVE CULTURE FORWARD. Enjoy!
Look for the future-past
Here’s some information about a recent film festival that Sub Umbra Alarum Luna was part of, curated by Marilyn Roxie. “look to the future-past” is an online exhibition for isthisit? (isthisitisthisit.com) bringing together contemporary videos that make reference back to video art and experimental film of the past. Over the course of the week, these videos will be revealed to you in ones and twos, culminating in an hour-long compilation of the whole. Structural film, video feedback, collage…Brakhage, Jarman, Rosler, Paik, the Vasulkas…Styles, techniques, and hallowed names to deconstruct, update, and upend. Abstraction and ambience reign supreme in this collection of works, though the drama of the everyday too shines through. Full artist bios and video descriptions available at marilynroxie.com/2017/09/01/look-to-the-future-past-curated-by-marilyn-roxie-1st-8th-september/ look to the future-past for isthisit? from Marilyn Roxie on Vimeo...
A meatpacking merger
So here I am at Robert Mapplethorpe’s grave. A copy of Patti Smith’s great Just Kids is pressed into the earth by other elements and almost overgrown. Is this some kind of Bruce Chatwin fantasy for me or what? Packing in the meat in the meatpacking district: one US beast and one mild-mannered Briton, both paying for it dearly. There was a resonance of aesthetic sensitivity (and sensibility) between them that transcended petty projects like the Lisa Lyon book. Chatwin’s writing (like Robert Byron’s before him) and “Maxey’s” images take you on a (literal) drive towards patterns, light, shadows, reflections, bodies in movement. Chatwin: Walking. Mapplethorpe: Fucking, flexing. There is restraint. Restraint is a common denominator in these expressions. Economy of language in Chatwin’s case; visual, visceral economy in Mapplethorpe’s. The body is the key to experience these new (or perhaps eternal?) aesthetic dimensions...
Interview on California Infernal in the Daily Mail
I was recently interviewed by the Daily Mail about the California Infernal project. Read all about it here: