From Magic and Myth-Work to Care and Repair
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2024
Summary
From Magic and Myth-Work to Care and Repair is a two-part book, broadly concerned with the “fiction of the self” and with practices and explorations beyond that fiction. Each part approaches this thematic from a different angle.
Part One: On Magic and Myth-Work This section deals with practices of magic (although not always named as such) and with contemporary myth-making in relation to landscape, performance, and writing.
Part Two: On Care and Repair<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915983046 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915983045 |
| Author: | Simon O'Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Goldsmith's Press |
| Imprint: | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 154mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
“There’s a real deftness of thought here, and one that’s vitalised by its fluid movement between both artistic and theoretical resources, from the ‘cut-up’ literary exercises of William Burroughs to the experiments in fictional religion enacted by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth through the 1980s.”
—Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Review
Simon O'Sullivan
Simon O’Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths. He is also part of the collaborative “performance fiction” Plastique Fantastique with David Burrows, Alex Marzeta, and Vanessa Page. This practice-based research involves an investigation into aesthetics, subjectivity, the sacred, popular culture and politics produced through performance, film and sound work, comics, text, installations, and assemblages. Plastique Fantastique have performed and exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.
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