Carl Abrahamsson

Vanessa Sinclair’s “Switching Mirrors” available for pre-order

October 20, 2016

I’m very proud to have been part of the manifestation of this brand new gem on Trapart Books. Switching Mirrors is an amazing collection of cut-ups and mind-expanding poetry by Vanessa Sinclair. Delving into the unconscious and actively utilising the “third mind” as developed by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Sinclair roams through suggestive vistas of magic, witchcraft, dreams, psychoanalysis, sex and sexuality (and more). Causal apprehensions are disrupted by a flow of impressions that open up the mind of the reader. What’s behind language and our use of it? What happens when random factors and the unconscious are given free reign in poetic form? Switching Mirrors is what happens. Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis, which facilitates psychoanalytic lectures, classes, and events in and around New...

An e-book adventure begins

October 19, 2016

So, OK, I love books. Actually I’m obsessed with books. I write them, publish my writings in book form, and also publish other people’s books. I buy them, collect them, care for them, touch them, and quite often sleep with them too (the books are above the blanket, I’m not). Since the emergence of “e-books” I’ve repelled the idea itself: who in her/his right mind wants to read on a digital “platform” and not caress an actual book? Unfortunately, quite a lot of people it seems. End times! However, I’m also vain so of course I want people to read my books. That’s why I’ve now made Mother, Have A Safe Trip and Fanzinera – Photographs 1985-1988 available as e-books. I’m not really comfortable with all of this yet but what the hell… If you actually buy them as e-books, I’ll forgive you. Because with that money I can publish more real books so I guess it’s a good scenario after all? Buy MOTHER...

New cut-up/audio project with Vanessa Sinclair

October 17, 2016

Over the recent months I’ve collaborated with the amazing American artist and psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair on a series of cut-ups and readings set to sound/music. We have made several pieces which will now be collected and released in different forms. The first piece has just been released via Vanessa’s & fellow artist Katelan Foisy’s site “Chaos of the Third Mind”, and is called Blood or Hunter’s Moon. You can listen to it right HERE! I hope you enjoy it!

White Stains 2013 flashback

October 15, 2016

I’m slowly but pretty surely preparing the video documentation of the concert White Stains played together with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in Gothenburg on June 29th 2013. It was a truly wonderful evening at the jazz club Nefertiti. The concert was part of an ESSWE (European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism) event at Gothenburg University, organised by professor Henrik Bogdan and Chris Giudice. This was the first time White Stains had performed live since 1993, and this evening we were, not unexpectedly, pure Cotton Ferox: Thomas Tibert, Eriq Olin and myself. We called the evening At Gothenburg, in reference to the album we made with Genesis in 1990: At Stockholm. Before Genesis came on stage, I recited the lyrics from the first three White Stains 7″ singles (“The Crowley Colour Trio”), The Energy, The Awareness and The Result, to honour that early and very exciting phase. And as Aleister Crowley’s birthday (October 12th) approached this year, I...