Gothic horror and film noir-infused aesthetic venture into pretty dark and twisty regions of the human psyche in Miwa Yanagi’s Fairytale.
Category: Culture
1960s How-To Sex Magazine from Japan
From hand-holding and nose-rubbing to belly button-twirling and mannequin-posing, this strange Japanese how-to magazine from the 1960s certainly covers the spread.
DAVID BLAIR’S TELEPATHIC CINEMA – Exclusive on “WAX” Sequel
Over the years, WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, the first film to be transmitted on the internet, has become a cyberpunk keystone and is still viewable online in an ever-evolving interactive experience at WAXWEB. Now, a spiritual sequel to WAX titled: The Telepathic Motion Picture of The Lost Tribes.
John Cale’s Rare Lock-Groove Flexi Disc from 1966
The Flexi disc reads, “final groove purposely left open” and is the earliest example of using a lock groove in pop music. Loop has also been called “a precursor to Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music” and predates most other “industrial” music.
POST-CATASTROPHE WORKSHOP – Support Lydia Lunch, Bibbe Hansen & Co.
Controversial “confrontationalist” legend Lydia Lunch‘s new project is a full-blown collaborative women’s workshop whose effort is “to change the status quo through art and group empowerment.”
SWEET SUBMERSION — Martynka Wawrzyniak’s Chocolate
In her phenomenal 2010 performance piece, “Chocolate,” Wawrzyniak enlisted her spouse to drown her in chocolate syrup. The resulting 9-minute video provides a simultaneously discomfiting and thrilling viewing experience.
Watch the First Two Entirely Native American Silent Films
Watch the First Two Entirely Native American Silent Films, The Daughter Of Dawn (1920), and In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Dead Man Posting – The Thoughtography of Ted Serios
Theodore `Ted´ Judd Serios is a thoughtographer. He can psychically “burn” images from his mind onto photosensitive surfaces. That is a rare ability, and it made Ted famous in the 1960s, when he first performed in a series of experiments supervised by the psychiatrist Jule Eisenbud.
Tobe Damit, or Not to Be
They display a world which, apart from the new flashy technology we now have, has not changed much – alcoholism, despair, homelessness, poverty, and abandonment are still very present today as they were when these pictures were taken in 1988 and 1989. These photos will probably be viewed by some as flawed, but to me, they exude a rawness that I find missing in today’s ‘perfectly framed’ digital photography.
CLITERACY EXCLUSIVE! – Accessing Pleasure with Sophia Wallace
Sophia Wallace demands “Cliteracy,” the truth behind the often misunderstood female sex organ. Through simple, direct visual statements she’s developing a refreshing discourse on the female body, pleasure politics, and human sexuality as a whole.
BRUNO HIBOMBO’S BATTLES – Exclusive Interview & Video Premiere
Bruno Hibombo’s Battles combines ethereal longing with a direct soulfulness that places his debut far beyond his young age of 22
WHOLLY COMMUNION – Peter Whitehead’s 1965 Beat Poetry Film
Peter Whitehead caught the world’s top poetic intellects in what was called Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening.”
GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU EXCLUSIVE – Navigating Tech Through Solitude in the Mobile Monastery
Known as an internet guru, virtual goddess, and crust-monk, artist Genevieve Belleveau has earned many titles building an already prolific body of work. Considered a leading example of the New Aesthetic, an art movement that interrelates virtual and physical realities, Belleveau explores what it means to be human in the Information Age. She enacts practices…
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IN WAX – Unseen Footage From David Blair’s Classic Cult Film
Like most cult film, David Blair‘s 1991 cyberpunk odyssey WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees carries a world of odd trivia and unexpected connections behind it.
HALL OF ICE – Diego Barrera’s New Video for Lebanon Hanover
HALL OF ICE – Diego Barrera’s New Video for Lebanon Hanover Avant-garde duo Diego Barrera and Julieta Triangular form Celestial Twins Productions, a cinematic collaboration filled with ghostly seduction. These Spanish newcomers’ shorts and music videos have hailed comparisons to Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kenneth Anger, Ira Cohen, Maya Deren, amongst others, and have collaborated…
CURATING FILM ONLINE – Exclusive Interview with the CEO of Fandor, Dan Aronson
We spoke to Fandor CEO Dan Aronson about their latest project, Journey Into Film, a thematically concentrated and curated series.
DIAMANDA GALAS COMIC STRIP – The Rejected Panels
An unnamed Milan paper asked Diamanda Galás to draw comic strip panels as a response to a series of questions, which were then rejected and never printed.
IRAN’S NEW PRESIDENT – A Young Iranian Artist’s Words
In 2009, after Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad won the presidential election for the second time, Iran experienced one of the biggest national demonstrations since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
WHITE FUNGUS GOES GLOBAL – Exclusive Interview with Editor Ron Hanson
WHITE FUNGUS GOES GLOBAL – Exclusive Interview with Editor Ron Hanson Robert Ashley: “Great ones like White Fungus only come along now and then. Get the recent issue and find out.” Carolee Schneemann: “I follow and relish the rich, un-predictable, and consequential span of White Fungus.” Named after a food can found in…
JACQUES DERRIDA INTERVIEWS ORNETTE COLEMAN – The Other’s Language
Ornette Coleman interview conducted by French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
P IS FOR PROSTITUTION – An Exclusive with Writer Charlotte Rodgers
P is for Prostitution covers roughly 30 tumultuous years of author Charlotte Rodgers’ life.
SOUND?? – 1966 FILM JOHN CAGE ROLAND KIRK (+ 1974 Interview w/ Cage, Merce Cunningham, Louise Nevelson)
1966 film from director Dick Fontaine starring Rahshaan Roland Kirk, John Cage, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham.
TED SERIOS, THOUGHTOGRAPHER – Two Annotations
This is a follow-up piece to TEoB’s previous post with Ted Serios.
THE FALL OF COMMUNISM THROUGH GAY PORNOGRAPHY – A Video By William E. Jones
William E. Jones has a history of smartly appropriating or deconstructing footage.
THOUGHTOGRAPHY – Ted Serios’ Interview with Mi Stress Henry
Theodore Judd Serios is a thoughtographer. He can psychically “burn” images from his mind onto photosensitive surfaces.
AUTOMATIC WRITING as PERFORMANCE – Ron Athey & Sue Fox Discuss GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
Extreme body artist Ron Athey‘s latest large-scale performance installation, Gifts Of The Spirit: Part 1.
The Imagery of John O’Reilly
The Imagery of John O’Reilly “There’s an element of gay culture that only wants to look at and glorify beautiful men, but I’m much more interested in presenting a realistic image of the male body.” – John O’Reilly Using razor blades, paper clips, and an old Polaroid camera, O’Reilly has spent the past…
Aleister Crowley Reads The Pentagram
(Editor’s note: This was the very first TEoB post deposited way back in 2009. Before our Agents can begin dispatching their latest research, our operatives are slowly integrating all the initial reports and communiques that once occupied TEoB back into their proper places..) Aleister Crowley reads The Pentagram from a cylinder recording,…