Join us on 27 April at Camden Art Centre as we launch our first new Strange Attractor Journal in over a decade:
7-9pm, Free entry
Camden Art Centre
Arkwright Rd
London NW3
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there
SAJV is a characteristically eclectic new collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. Covering previously uncharted regions of history, anthropology, art, literature, architecture, science, and magic since 2004, each Journal has presented new and unprecedented research into areas that scholarship has all too often ignored.
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The launch event will feature three presentations drawn from the new
collection:
William Fowler on the strange
story of Hungarian painter and decorator Joseph De Havilland, who had himself
crucified on Hampstead Heath in 1969. Was it an act of queer mystical masochism,
or high-concept performance art?
Karen Russo presents her short
film, and an introductory lecture on Haus Atlantis in Bremen, a 1931 monument of
esoteric fascist architecture that combined Nordic mythology, fringe-science and
futuristic architecture with the aim of restoring “the self-esteem of
the German people”.
Ken Hollings, David McGillivray and friends read scenes from
Let Me Die A Monster their un-filmed 1996 film script imagining
the tortured last days of Nick Adams, would-be film star and reputed lover of
James Dean and Elvis, as he filmed a kaiju epic for Toho Films in 1965.
Books and exclusive ephemera will be available.