“In Our Fatal Magic, it is the wound or cut that produces the portal that enables the double movement between becoming and unbecoming.” Bridget Crone, ‘Wounds of Unbecoming’, introduction to Our Fatal Magic by Tai Shani (Strange Attractor Press, 2019) This article should be more properly called ‘On Tai Shani’s Our Fatal Magic’, as it… Continue reading On ‘Phantasmagoregasm’
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On Andrea Rocha
Andrea Rocha: Cutting Skin, Cutting Paper Fig. 1: ‘Wash Your Hands’, photographed collage, 2020 Two energies, or two competing forces, are at work in the photographic montages of Andrea Rocha (b. 1964, Rio de Janeiro). These warring visual phenomena, which we could refer to as what Sartre called the real and the ‘irreal’, can… Continue reading On Andrea Rocha