Surrealism is Dead, Long Live Death!
At Musée du Luxembourg

I am organising a conference on the work of British poet Sean Bonney, taking place in December 2026 at Université Paris Cité.

It is called “On Sean Bonney: Poetic Radicalism at the Turn of the Third Millennium”

The CFP is here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/...

It may be the fanciest book I’ve had the opportunity to make, it’s certainly the most tome-like

The book is here!

Beginning of a very long droning text

(the same lot I discuss in the video in fact, Chiswick Auctions Lot 175)

Cuts, Copies, Clips and the Curatorial (Part of Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain conference) YouTube video by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

It all very sadly did end up on the scrap heap, literally in some cases.

I talked about the archive about five years ago at this event: m.youtube.com/watch?v=TgfF...

Rufus, the son of John Lyle, saw the video last year and contacted me. He picked up an unsold lot of the archive, and drove it here

He gave an auto destructive performance as part of the programme of the Exeter Festival of Modern Arts, 1967!

Try the gallery: info@goswellroad.com !

Come on down! 13/12-24/01!

Yeassss

Goswell Road Goswell Road is a non-profit artist-run space and publishing house, set up in November 2016 by Franco-British art duo Ruiz Stephinson in their studio in Paris' 10e arrondissement.

goswellroad.com !

Goswell Road Goswell Road is a non-profit artist-run space and publishing house, set up in November 2016 by Franco-British art duo Ruiz Stephinson in their studio in Paris' 10e arrondissement.

It’s to be launched during the exhibition by the publishing house of the gallery. Gallery is Goswell Road, Paris. It will be in shops from January, but copies can be got directly from the gallery already: goswellroad.com

Speak of the devil !

There’s also a massive book

Well good, because Metzger was indeed involved in it

I have an exhibition coming up on what happened to the Surrealist Group in England following the death of André Breton in 1966

The archives of post-war English surrealism in my living room

Ted Joans and Dorothea Tanning at the Pompidou

Psychic Topographies at Profil, Paris Documentation of Psychic Topographies at Profil, Paris is available at Contemporary Art Library.

Here is a throwback to an exhibition I curated some months ago, when I had forgotten Bluesky existed.

It was called « Psychic Topographies » and took place at Profil Galerie, Paris.

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/psyc...

cdn.contemporaryartlibrary.org/store/doc/47...

The visuality of the French parliament is weirdly incongruous, like the Janus that adorns the speaker’s podium that often denotes deception and untruths, this face looking out from within a face, and also these cool Pierre Alechinsky and Jean Tardieu crayon walls

And, you’re very welcome

Nordau attended the same lectures by Charcot on « dégénérescence » that Freud did, and that inspired Salomonsen in Denmark

… and ophthalmologists were specialists in all sorts of things that would not be seen as their concern today)

(Or rather, the answer is something along the lines of - before the proper understanding of bacteria, it was known lots of things can be transmitted via the eye, like f. eks. diseases, but it wasn’t understood how. And so ophthalmology was a very very wide-ranging discipline…

New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the...

Well, you are in luck! As I translated and published the texts discussing contagious ophthalmic psychosis from this research as a book last year! It is here :

new-documents.org/books/new-fo...

Rather than turkey and that, this year for Xmas dinner consumed various crustaceans and gastropods

Here is a link to the article:

muse.jhu.edu/article/947733

The article is the critical counterpart to the book I published in 2023 titled « New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness » - the book can be viewed here: new-documents.org/books/new-fo...

After much digging in archives in Scandinavia, my article on how modernist art and literature has sent you all insane is in the new issue of @mmodernity.bsky.social

It is called: « A Contagious Ophthalmic Psychosis: Carl Julius Salomonsen and the Epidemic of Artistic Modernism in Europe, 1919–20 »