* (restored)

 

Roger Ballen
Fábio Magalhães
Simen Johan
Sophie Jodoin
Jesse Draxler
Louise Herman
Yuko Mishimata
Antony Micallef
Rory Hamovit
Asger Carlsen
Pyuupiru
Alison Brady
Miriam Cahn
Kye Christensen-Knowles
Peter Beste

 

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Roger Ballen Various, 2008 – 2017
photography

 

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Fábio Magalhães Various, 2008 – 2013
paintings

 

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Simen Johan And Nothing was to be Trusted, 1994
Toned gelatin silver prints

 

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Sophie Jodoin Various, 2006 – 2012
drawings

 

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Jesse Draxler Various, 2013 – 2021
collage

 

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Louise Herman Various 2009- 2015
painting

 

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Yuko Mishimata Untitled, 2014
digital render

 

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Antony Micallef Various, 2011 – 2018
charcoal on paper

 

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Rory Hamovit Various, 2020
photography

 

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Asger Carlsen Various, 2004 – 2012
digitally manipulated images

 

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Pyuupiru Selfportraits, 2005 – 2007


A mountain climber that has rotted away


A cake maker tricks and poisons


A 12-year-old boy bearing scars


A boy that has been beaten and threatened


A clown that has been abused


A surgeon who sells skin


A demon murderer cerebrating a ritual


An ecstatic drug addict

 

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Alison Brady Various, 2007 – 2014
photography

 

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Miriam Cahn Various, 2010 – 2013
drawings

 

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Kye Christensen-Knowles Various, 2020 -2021
oil and graphite on canvas

 

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Peter Beste Various, 2008
photography

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Ilán, Hi. Well, of course. I can concur that things that happen to you that seem so minor that they barely register can end up being more crucial than the things to which you are attentive. Fascinating how the mind can circumvent one’s perceptions. Enjoy. See you ere long. ** Sarah Palmer, Oh, me too, I’m thrilled by what the students are doing, especially coming from the US where rebellions mostly get swallowed up by people’s iPhones. I didn’t end up going to PI (yet). I got sideswiped by the grand opening of my favorite Paris bookstore After8 in its new location which turned out to be marathon. The Wooster Group is sold out? Oh, no. I missed the window. And they’re doing one of their great pieces, ‘Symphony of Rats’. That sucks. Ah, thanks. I’m loving this chilly weather, which is making all the possibilities feel so warm. You? ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. Great to see you! Wonderful about the post. Thanks so much, man! The restored ‘The Devils’ isn’t here yet. I can only imagine it’ll get here. So curious. Even in its truncated form, I remember it being Russells’ seeming best film by kind of far. All good with you? Sure hope so. ** Adem Berbic, Hi. ‘TMS’ the most ketty of my novels … hm, makes a certain sense, I suppose. Sure, why not? Well, but maybe your redo would only increase your friend’s high opinion of the piece? They only know what you gave them, not how it could alter upwards and onwards? I’ve never shown my fiction to anyone until I think it’s complete and I’m confident of it, the one exception being a time I stupidly read part of ‘God Jr.’ when it was in-progress at reading. The audience was very enthusiastic in a way that made me think they were like that because the work didn’t have my usual sex/violence/drugs/etc. stuff in it and they were relieved or something. And a few people there were very critical of it, again seemingly because it was so different. Anyway, it confused me so much that I stopped working on the novel for a year afterwards. So, never again. It’s gloomy here, but in the most invigorating way. No fires, but quite possibly starting tomorrow. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Well, it was very family friendly, which maybe the French think something like Halloween needs to be? Definitely not up to US standards in any way. But, like I said, the Parc Asterix Halloween makeover, which I’ll be checking out soon, is pretty US-style. Or it was last year. Yeah, very strange phrase. I thought love might be able to pull it off. I sort of think of all religious movements as cults, but I’m such a non-believer. Love Suffering a Witch to Live, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Lovely daydream there, fellow revolutionary wannabe! ** kitchencountertop, Hi, welcome. Nice to meet you. I know, the Kren/Tscherkassky tete-a-tete, such a score. I have seen a Bruce McClure projector performance, yes. In 2012 here in Paris. I think it was called ‘Scratch, Expanded’. It was amazing. He’s doing a number of them at the Rotterdam Film Festival next January, and I’m really tempted to go up there for that. Have you seen one? Thoughts? Thanks, cool to get to confer. ** Steve Erickson, Nice that your remix will be on an EP. Curious to hear it. Let me know what you think of the William Greaves. There seems to be a rise of interest in his work lately. Maybe his films got restored? ** laura w., ‘Rainbow Stories’ is my favorite Vollman. Although I think he’s always super interesting. I think his fiction is easily as good as his non-fiction. I only checked out the online ‘Backrooms’-related stuff after I saw the film, and it made me think less of the film. I think I have to totally agree with you in theory. I feel the same way about turning novels into films. There’s talk of republishing my early poetry books going on right now, but not ‘The Weaklings XL’ that I know of. That would be really nice. I was actually writing fairly decent poetry by that point. Thank you for wanting. ** HaRpEr //, Thanks for lifting yourself out of the chaos, and I’m so sorry to hear that about your surroundings. Oh, yeah, ‘Studying Hunger’ is great. Nice you’re reading it. It’s kind of her masterpiece maybe. Life improving vibes if such things exist. ** Uday, Hi. Yes the blog has a timeout problem sometimes. Don’t know why. It does that to me too more than occasionally. It’s a hassle, but if you’re leaving a long comment, you might write it in a doc or something first and then copy and paste. That might help? Sorry. ** Okay. More Halloween-relative stuff for you today. Note to Halloween naysayers: it’ll all be over in a week. See you tomorrow.