Lost and Found Times
This is clearly understood by his partner Unica Zurn who linked the anatomical distortions of the doll to psychic realities of disruption and intense disturbance. Zurn describes the poetic subterranean currents when she likened the project, in her Obliques, to that of a “mentally ill woman who yielded in an erotic crisis to her partner.” This links us with both the madhouse world of Charcot’s hysterical women and the poetic language of Coleridge’s Christabel as well as the cut-up poetics of William Burroughs who said that “Cut-ups establish new connections between images, and one’s range of vision consequently expands.”
By Richard Marshall.
3:AM Asia: Akatombo
And now for a few words from Richard Cabut: The phrase ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’, variously attributed to Elvis Costello, Clara Schumann and BS Johnson, stands as a warning to people who might want to write things about records like this is the shit. But, fuck it; the brand new release […]