Conceptual/ contemporary art & theory, Literature and literary criticism,
'Intelectual underworlds' & sercret societies, masonic regalia & imagery, The British Library reading room, Le Bibliotheque d' Arsenal.
Artists: Haessen Chung, Santiago Sierra, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marcel Broodthaers, Beuys, Hans Bellmer, Austin Osman Spare, Unica Zurn, Coil/ John Balance, Ithell Colquhoun, Jana Leo De Blaas, Frank Haines, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Matthieu Laurette, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Aleksandra Mir, Lygia Clark, Phillipe Huyge, Douglas Park, Nico Dockx, Leonora Fini, Coum Transmissions, Max Ernst, Bob and Roberta Smith, Clunie Reid...Esoterica- Austin Osman Spare, Zos- Kia, Thelema, Sigilic Magick, Obeah, Fetishistics, Book-dealing, Bibliophiles, Abherant Accademics, Agnes B, Raf Simmons & Ann Demeulemeester, Scarlet Women, Women, Macs/ MacUsers, Hacking, Wardriving, Paris, Antwerp & Madrid, Espana (I grew up there...)
Authentic individuals that share interests and Artists, Writers, Researchers & Cultural
Practioners for collaborative work/ projects/ exchange of ideas.
NO BANDS !
If you are a 'Random' write me a message first ok.
CURRENT: Currently involved in & exhibiting as part of 'Spectre vs. Rector' at The Residence Gallery, London
- hope you can make it down. Related publication & CD launch upcoming...Click the image below for further info.
PAST:
Coil, Kraftwerk, Skinny Puppy, Black Sun Productions, Testing Vault, Einsturzende Neubauten, Psychic TV, Miss Kittin, Throbbing gristle, Crystal Castles, Orbital, Daft Punk, Meat Beat Manifesto, Cabaret Voltaire, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Prefuse 73, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Ceephax Acid Crew, Current 93, Nurse with wound, Eminem, Foetus, Underworld, John Zorn, John Oswald, Komeda, Ennio Morricone, Harry Partch, John Oswald, Kronos quartet, Christian Marclay, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Spermbirds... Avant-garde= too numerous, Maddona/ Kylie, Korean/ Japanese pop & electronica, 80's, The Human League, Soft Cell...
Harry Smith, Luis Buñuel, Kenneth Anger, Roman Polanski, Damage/ other romantic but f**cked up films with Juliette Binoche, Nikita, Map of the Human Heart, The Ninth Gate, The Wicker Man, Das Experiment, Michael Haneke, Mark Aerial Waller (Friend= I 'Star' as a rather obfuscated/ malevolent- secret agent in 'The sons of Temperance' (2002)- Sci-fi realism art movie), Alien series/ Giger, Crash, Existenz, Cypher, Wargames, Evil Seed, Miike Takashi, Audition, Battle Royale, Japanese/ Korean cinema, Ealing Comedy, Will Hay...
Harry Crosby (Poet, U.S.A-1920's) & The Black Sun Press. Literary Biography & History, Literary Criticism, History of Publishing/ Bibliophile. French literature, Fin de siecle/ decadent- Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Petrus Borel/ Bouzingos, Lettristes...Bataille, De Sade, Thomas de Quincey, J.G.Ballard, J.K. Huysmans, De Nerval, Rabelais, Herman Hesse- 'Steppenwolf', Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin. Nabakov, Nietzsche, Foucault Esoterica- A.C, Spare - Zos Kia, Kenneth Grant, Michel Bertiaux, John Whiteside(Jack) Parsons, Ellic Howe, R.A. Gilbert, Ithell Colquhoun, Peter J. Carrol, Arthur Machen, 'Schismatrix' by Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson...Raymond Carver & a lot of v. obscurantist titles