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13 Jun

‘Angels of a Drowning World’, by Lío Mehiel. Presented

‘Angels of a Drowning World’, by Lío Mehiel. Presented
LA based artist, filmmaker, and actor, Lío Mehiel is proud to present a recent photo work from their series angels of a drowning world at GUTS Gallery in London as a part of their SAINTS & SINNERS group show running June ninth, 2023 – July seventh, 2023. For angels of a drowning world, Lío invited photographer Wynne Neilly to affix them in Bombay Beach, California: a partially abandoned desert town on the shores of a man-made, toxic lake called the Salton Sea. The 2 entered the lake, Wynne with protective gear and Lío without, and together they created a series of images that explore the connection between the fight for body autonomy and the fight against climate collapse under...
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5 Sep

A funhouse mirror of the soul: Belated thoughts on

A funhouse mirror of the soul: Belated thoughts on
What does it mean to jot down experimentally — to provide “experimental fiction”? We often consider those that take daring risks with form, subject material, style, or structure. There's Georges Perec’s 1969 novel A Void, as an example, written without using the letter e, or B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, which is available in a box that allow readers to shuffle the story around in alternative ways, or Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood, a novel written entirely in questions. Such texts are unmistakably, outlandishly experimental — we understand immediately that latest demands will likely be made on us as we read, and that together we're exploring uncharted territory.But there are also spiritually experimental novels, which push up against the boundaries of...
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