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Cao Hui
http://www.linlingallery.com/eng/artists-d.php?id=33
Adrian Ghenie
https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/adrian-ghenie/
Brandon Vickerd
http://brandonvickerd.com
Cheryl Dunn
http://www.cheryldunn.net
Sturtevant
https://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/sturtevant/works
Mike Diana
http://www.mikedianacomix.com
Dongwook Lee
http://www.dongwooklee.net
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Annette Messager
https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/52-annette-messager/
Agata Kus
https://agatakus.pl
Miaz Brothers
http://miazbrothers.com
Toshio Saeki
https://www.instagram.com/toshiosaekioficial/?hl=en
Ghost Drummer
Joseph Seigenthaler
http://www.joeseigenthaler.com
Kevin Francis Gray
http://www.kevinfrancisgray.com
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
http://www.sunyuanpengyu.com
Eberhard Havekost
http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist/eberhard-havekost/#/copy-property-b12–2
Tracey Snelling
http://traceysnelling.com/home.html
Jeremy Millar
http://www.jeremymillar.org
Cécile B. Evans
https://cecilebevans.com
Abigail Goldman
http://abigailgoldman.com
Jessica Harrison
http://www.jessicaharrison.co.uk
Ryan Gander
http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/ryan-gander
Marnie Weber
http://www.marnieweber.com
Elmgreen & Dragset
http://www.elmgreen-dragset.com/Elmgreen-Dragset.html
Jérôme Zonder
http://www.evahober.com/?item=jerome-zonder
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p.s. Hey. Due to the fact that the blog will likely be on vacation during a good portion of the actual Halloween season since Zac and I are scheduled to be busy in LA then working on the preproduction of our new film, I’ve decided to start the blog’s annual Halloween season early this year. And to kick it off, here’s a lovely restored Halloween show from years ago devised by long-time blog reader and multiple Galerie guest-curator Kristen Shull. It’s cool, have fun. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yeah, the film seems cursed, and problems persist, but we’ll get there. It just never should have been this difficult. Oh, no! How was the bachelorette shebang? Are you okay? Are your mind, body, and soul in one piece? I didn’t know Brian Masters wrote a Dahmer bio. How did I not know that? Is it as good as ‘Killing for Company’? ‘KfC’ is up there with the very best serial killer bios ever in my book. I hope love performed the miracle for you, but I’m guessing it was a miracle too far, even for almighty love? Love fulfilling my fantasy that I wake up one morning to discover I can speak French fluently, G. ** T, T-man! Yes, him and Sion Sono. I did a Sion Sono Day last year if you didn’t see it and want to revisit past glories. Ah, university gotcha. Clean, yes. I liked the year I was at university before I quit, hint hint. Thanks about ‘The Marbled Swarm’! That’s my favorite of my novels, as you probably know. Yeah, the flat thing came from my having been heavily trolling the guro scene while I was writing it. Not that I’m not still trolling it. May your Monday the ultimate Monday whatever the hell that would be. ** Bill, Did you spend your day with Pasolini? Right, huge controversy or something around the Castro getting rid of its seats or something, right? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Like I said, I have no interest in that guy. ** Sypha, Welcome home. Jesus, your teeth are like a monster movie from the 1950s. I used to listen to Bret’s podcast regularly, but I kind of slacked off when he started talking about politics. I guess I should jump back in. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, man. ‘House’ is so great. I’m sure you’ll love it. Well, a lot of your UK footballer types are notoriously hair trigger nuts, you’ve got to admit. ** Brendan, Like Terry Richardson used to be paid, like, ten years ago at minimum. Yay! Beauty and niceness for miles. I’m still gonna email you. I’m just, like, email-impaired. It’s fucking weird. ** Steve Erickson, No, thank you, Steve! And it got quite high traffic so it seems to have gone down a storm amongst the silent internet world. I know Hisayasu Sato’s stuff a little. Huh. I’ll look into doing a post about him. Excited for the interview! ** Right. Walk your eyes through Kristen’s Halloween-y stewardship of my galerie please, thank you. See you tomorrow.
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Dear Dennis, I tried to leave a comment on your great post on Chantal Akerman, 2017.
My book “Missing Links” will be out in a couple of months by Barakunan. It’s about Akerman’s work and I wanted to send it to you as a pdf. To which email?
Best!
I’ve watched Love Exposure so many times. It barely feels its 4+ hours, and this reminded me I think there’s a 6 hour director’s cut I always meant to watch! Now headed to Amazon to see if I can’t nab myself a copy. Antiporno is also amazing, it’s so visually stunning. And the Suicide Club films, they’re classic.
I always look more at Furry sites for that kinda stuff. My friends and I aren’t furries but we’re fascinated by some of the stuff they’re into and usually look at it together. Surely furries aren’t much different from otakus, I see fetish overlap between them. The first post I saw on here was “Macrophilia Day” and I was like aw yeah, this place rules.
Hope your Monday treats you kindly too!
@ Kristen, thank you for this seasonal introduction! I don’t remember this post from the first time so its delights appear new to me. Elmgreen & Dragset are the masters of Halloweeny installations.
Once I am out of the East Leeds Recovery Hub I look forward to some more exotic food. The menu here is distinctly Brexit with nothing but English cuisine for the last few weeks. Shan’t be long now, surely.
Hey Dennis, I saw Medea (for the first time) at the Pasolini bash. Very fine. If the screenings were spread over several days, I would have tried to catch more of them. Yeah the proposed seating changed caused a bit of an uproar in the neighborhood, not sure how it’s going. Frankly, the family that owns the theatre doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. They had zero programming during the early pandemic, not even streaming.
I see the big day is less than 2 months away. Joseph Seigenthaler, wow. I’ve seen Jessica Harrison’s work in person, it’s so small and refined and impressive.
By the way, thanks for recommending the David Nutt collection a few weeks ago. Really enjoying it. Reminds me of Garielle Lutz, but with a little more narrative scaffolding.
Bill
Hi!!
Starting Halloween early this year – I’m in! And wow. This post is heavy. I love it! Some of Mike Diana’s pieces remind me of Yuta Sakakibara’s work.
I’m so sorry about the film struggles. What’s going on? When do you go to the US?
Well, I think it’s fair to say that I’ll have PTSD after this bachelorette party. Love did not save me. My friend – the bride – was really lovely, but I’m not convinced even she had a great time. It was just… massive cringe.
I didn’t know about Brian Masters’s Dahmer bio either; I got it from Anita as a random gift. I just finished it this morning, and I think I enjoyed it even more than “Killing for Company,” which is at the top of my list when it comes to true crime/serial killer literature as well. I highly recommend it!
Well, you’ve been living in France for quite a while now, probably hearing the language every day. I think it’d be very fair of love to turn your passive knowledge into fluent French at this point! Love solving all your film-related problems in two seconds flat, Od.
Extra spooky post today. How ya doing Dennis?
Hey Dennis – A nice surprise to Halloween springing to life early here. I’ve been catching up on the great posts lately – Steve’s wonderful Obayashi day, Ivy Compton-Burnett extravaganza, all that fabulous cardboard (an art material close to my heat), and the favorite albums list. I was especially sorry to have missed that day.
Your list was great and it was interesting to see a few greatest hits compilations and box sets included. Comps don’t seem to get much respect as an art form and only Christgau regularly reviewed and took them seriously. I recently got that Shangri-las collection which has such a great selection of their work.
It’s a shame Kid Marine is so hard to find these days. I love the few songs I’ve heard off it. And I didn’t know that Buffy Saint Marie record you listed. Mostly I’m familiar with her “Illuminations” album. Is it at all similar?
And are there other Aki Onda records you rate almost as highly as “Bon Voyage”?
I’m off for a week to write in the mountains of Georgia. Hope all’s well with you. See you on the other side.
Thanks, Big D. Man, got back on here for a few days and then BAM! work bullshit. Or I should just say work because all work is work bullshit. Kinda redundant.
Yeah, we’ll see what the mammogram shows on the 23rd.
In the meantime, I got my blood/urine results the other day…fuck, never seen so many lows and highs. Of course, I feel fine, but my hypochondriac self had to look everything up. I’m either okay or have leukemia, hahaha. Never look medical shit up on the internet. But you know that already. And yeah, I’ll continue doing it. I see my GP on the 22nd, I’ll see what she says.
David got two more traffic violations. He’s got court dates in November. Yes, dates plural. He could be seeing some jail time. Oh, well.
Otherwise, everything’s okay.
Oh, and btw, this friend at work sends me a pic and is like, my wife is already decorating for Halloween, is this too soon? I was like, well, I’ve got this one friend…hehehe.
Hey Dennis,
I cannot believe it is September already!! This year!! *breathes deeply* I got summoned for the Symptom Management section of the PTSD treatment end of July to do 3xWeekly sessions in August which was ok… what I wasn’t expecting was, after one session, to get a letter saying that my actual PTSD therapy was starting on 5 Sept (like I still had 2years left on the waiting list, so NOT complaining, but was a bit sudden). So yeah that’s started, only had 2 sessions and they’ve just been introductions to the whole EMDR thingy, I think I have one more session before the real deep stuff begins. The first session still managed to be a bit fucked though, subject of my brother came up, about what just happen and some childhood stuff, and yeah my therapist was like “I’m referring you to the safeguarding counsellor”, and is like certain there’s repressed memories as I have stuff that makes no contextual sense (well, it does now I guess). Typical me, can’t be without drama I guess.
I did learn something positive from it all though. They went into depth about the symptoms of PTSD, and I had the massive revelation that Tree’s death has been the big block in my writing, or rather my avoidance of it. I had these little flashback moments to key points in our friendship where she had said weird things had happened whilst reading one of my books, and then the memory of me writing one of my favourite paragraphs the weekend she died whilst I was with her, and it was like “light bulb”. I could feel this hatred I had for writing, seeing that most of my work since her death has focused on either that event or loss, but never being able to finding the perfect words to capture my grief. Since then it’s been like a shake up. I am actually typing up the last novel I wrote, AND enjoying it and appreciating myself as an author. Plus, I’m writing the actual core text of the new one, rather than just fragments and research/planning.
I also adopted a 2 year-old French Bulldog called Minnie, and she is just adorable. So she keeps me busy and entertained. Ha, a French boyfriend, a French bulldog. I’ll get a reputation.
How is everything in DennisLand? Lots of love and hugs,
Dominic
Sorry for taking so long to respond to your question… I’m excited about Halloween posts. Actually, my next novel might be out in October. We’ll see. Part of it has a lot of Halloween stuff since that holiday and month have had quite a significance to my life. We’ll see what happens lol. There’s a lot to work out with very little time to do so, too. >___< And with being a couchsurfer, homeless, ongoing for 1.5 years now, I might not even get to own or hold a copy of my own 2nd book! What a life. 😀