The Subversion of Images by Celina Liu

A practical application of Belgian Surrealist Paul Nougé’s succinct conception of objects and the Surrealist approach: “It is a matter of giving people and objects a use and function different from their usual ones.” Celina Liu is an imagemaker exploring dream states, media archaeology, alchemy, and the mysteries of matter.  https://celinaliu.com/ • @kircherina

On Kathy Acker

As soon as I received the first treasure map in the post, I knew it was from Kathy and that she wanted me to come find her. She has been dead for a while, but I never stopped believing that one day I might sit down with her to share a drink and listen to her talk the way I had seen in old videos: eloquently, mystically, with a glint called malice sparkling in her eye. 

Roaming Eye: D’Est, 1993, Chantal Akerman

About two hours into the screening of D’Est (From the East, 1993) that was showing at le Reflet Médicis, the physicist walked out. Before leaving, he whispered to me that he couldn’t take it anymore and that he was ‘going to take a walk’. Of course, I, being a staunch Roman Catholic, stayed to witness … Read more