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2012 is shaping up to be another bumper year for Strange Attractor Press, with a number of new books in the works, and our involvement in two new exhibitions planned for the first half of the year.
Full details will appear here on the site in time, but until then here’s a peek at some of what we can look forward to:
– The Natural Death Handbook, Fifth Edition
A thoroughly updated and revised edition of the Natural Death Centre‘s celebrated handbook (left). Now presented alongside a new collection of essays on death, dying and funeral practices by doctors, historians, authors, poets, theologians and artists including Richard Barnett, David Jay Brown, Dr Sheila Cassidy, Charles Cowling, Bill Drummond, Stephen Grasso, Maggi Hambling, Graham Harvey, Gary Lachman, Nick Reynolds, and Dignity in Dying. [September 2012]
– The Influencing Machine by Mike Jay
A revised and updated edition of Mike Jay’s The Air Loom Gang (2003), a true tale of 18th century mind control, revolution and madness. [May/June 2012]
‘One of the greatest books you’ve never read’ – William Gibson
‘A wonderful book…exceptional scholarship and psychological insight’ – Oliver Sacks
– Savage Pencil presents Trip or Squeek’s Big Amplifier
The collected Trip or Squeek comics. Over 100 strips, as featured for the past ten years in The Wire magazine. Savage Pencil’s (aka Edwin Pouncey) acerbic, lysergic, razor-sharp observations on music, art and life. [July/August 2012]
Strange Attractor is also involved with two forthcoming exhibitions at Maggs Gallery in Mayfair, London:
From the Westbourne to the Wandle:
Jon Savage’s Uninhabited London photos and SF Said’s London’s Lost Rivers Polaroids
for Maggs Counterculture, at Maggs Gallery, 50 Hays Mews. London W1J 5QJ
Thursday 22nd March –Thursday 19th April
Maggs Counterculture and Strange Attractor present ‘Unstable’.
New and old artwork from Battle of the Eyes (Savage Pencil and Eyeball), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward, at Maggs Gallery; 50 Hays Mews. London W1J 5QJ
Tuesday 8th May – Friday 8th June 2012, Monday to Friday 1030-1700.
More details soon all of the above, and some other very exciting books planned for later in the year.
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‘Welcome to Mars’ on Kindle
Ken Hollings’ Welcome to Mars is Strange Attractor’s first book to be converted to the Kindle e-book format. We plan to make it available in an e-pub version soon.
It’s available via Amazon US at $6.99
or from Amazon UK at £5.99
A remarkable book… quite simply, essential reading.
Fortean Times
Welcome To Mars draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed.
Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.
Adam Curtis
Seamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.
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‘All I want to do is write’: Steve Moore interviewed
Somnium wouldn’t have been written at all, if I hadn’t spent my life on Shooters Hill. It’s a pretty strange place, especially when you start digging into its history. There’s a burial mound here that’s three to four thousand years old, and the woods that cover the hill are thought to be eight thousand years old. That’s almost back to the Ice Age. And there’s something about living on top of a hill that moulds your viewpoint. It’s not that you ‘look down’ on the people living around you, but it makes you feel different. There’s an awful lot of sky and a very wide horizon. So there’s geographical breadth and temporal duration. And I’m part of that. A native.
Somnium author Steve Moore interviewed by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on Forbidden Planet.
Pádraig hosts the excellent Glycon site where he recently also posted Steve and Alan’s Technical Vocabularies – Games for May, a short collection of poems.
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Mike Jay on Richard Dadd
Mike Jay, SAJ regular and author of our forthcoming book The Influencing Machine discusses the artist Richard Dadd and mental illness in the 19th century at Tate Britain:
Thursday 1 December 2011, 18.30–20.00
One of the most brilliant young artists of the Victorian age, Richard Dadd is a unique but little recognised figure in the history of art. In this evening discussion, Nicholas Tromans, author of Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum, talks to author and cultural historian Mike Jay about the artist’s legacy, and uses his life as a case history to investigate the relationship between art and the treatment of mental illness in the nineteenth century. Draws on archival material only recently released.
Tate Britain Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions)
Order tickets here
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London: Mythologies of Loss
London: Mythologies of Loss
with Iain Sinclair, Sebastian Groes and Tom Bolton
7pm, Thursday 27th October
at Pages of Hackney, 70 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney, London E5 0RN
Tel 020 8525 1452
Tickets £3
Iain Sinclair, Sebastian Groes and Tom Bolton read from their work and explore London as a city that can be read as a cartography of loss. The discussion is based on the research for Dr Groes’ book, The Making of London, in which Groes warns that conservationism and the fetishisation of London’s past can also blind us to new possibilities offered by the city.
More info at Pages of Hackney
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8 October: River Neckinger walk
London’s Lost Rivers author Tom Bolton is leading a walk along the elusive River Neckinger in South London.
It’s sure to be popular so do book ahead if you want to guarantee your space. He’ll be selling and signing books afterwards too.
River Neckinger Walk
Saturday 8th October 2011
Meet 2.30pm at Bernie Spain Gardens (next to the Thames jetty)
End point – Design Museum
£5, walk lasts approx 2.5 hours
Dress for autumn showers
Contact teabolton[at]hotmail.com to book
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Tessa Farmer, The Fairies are Coming!
Sculptor and SA pal Tessa Farmer has a new exhibition opening this weekend at Viktor Wynd Fine Art, 11 Mare St, Hackney, London E8. It runs until 30 October.
As part of the exhibition Strange Attractor have collaborated with Tessa and Viktor Wynd to put together a one day symposium on faery lore and Tessa’s artwork.
Tickets are £25, though early bird tickets, and those bought from the gallery are only £15. You can book tickets here.
The line up for the event is as follows:
Good Neighbours: Faeries, Folklore and the Art of Tessa Farmer
Saturday 1 October 2011, 11am til 7pm
Viktor Wynd Fine Art, 11 Mare St, London E8
A day of presentations, readings, films and discussion:
- Tessa Farmer introduces her work
- Gwilym Games (The Friends of Arthur Machen) looks at faeries in the work of Arthur Machen, great-grandfather of Tessa Farmer
- Jeremy Harte (The Folklore Society, author of Explore Fairy Traditions) considers faeries and otherness
- Petra Lange Berdt (author of Animal Art) on insects and art
- Carol Mavor (author of Reading Boyishly) reads a dark faery tale
- Catriona Mcara (editor of Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment) examines the films of Tessa Farmer
- Diane Perkiss (author of At The Bottom of the Garden) surveys the changing face of the little people
- Viktor Wynd (The Last Tuesday Society) reads classic short faery tales
Tickets are £25, though early bird tickets, and those bought from the gallery are only £15. You can book tickets here
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Past Present Future: Space-time
Noon til Midnight, 10 September 2011, Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire:
A one day music festival exploring diverse approaches to psychedelia, with performances including:
Invisible Polytechnic Orchestra who will make a durational performance of Terry Riley’s In C, Alexander Tucker, Ashtray Navigations, Astral Social Club, BK and Dad, Dead Rat Orchestra, Demdike Stare, Design A Wave, Devilman (DJ Scotch Egg, Dokkebi Q, Taigen), Diagonal, Disinformation, The Doozer, English Heretic, Man from Uranus, Maria and the Mirrors, Nochexxx, Old Apparatus, Pete Um, Please, Preslav Literary School, Raagnagrok Allstars, Transept, Simon Scott (ex Slowdive), 666 6 (Artists Phil Root and E Park), Time, and DJ sets from Marcus Scott (Hyperdub) and artists Andy Holden & Ed Atkins. Other events include yoga with Cheryl Sayers, talks including Andy Roberts and performance with artists Patrick Staff and Olivia Plender.
PAST PRESENT FUTURE: SPACE-TIME is programmed in partnership with Bad Timing, Strange Attractor and Electra
Tickets from £18, available via We Got Tickets
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Deer. Wolf. Wolf open studios 19 August 2011
SAJ designer Ali Hutchinson’s Deer. Wolf. Wolf. have open studios at the ABSORB ARTS open studio weekend, where prints and other artwork will be available for sale:
Friday 19th Aug 2011 6-9pm – private view
Saturday 20th 2011 Aug 12-5pm – bbq, drinks and cake
Sunday 21st Aug 2011 12- 5pm - bbq, drinks and cake
Absorb Arts, unit 4, millers ave, dalston, London E8 2DS
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