Vaginas, Malestrom Wounds and Evil Eyes: Aase Berg and JG Ballard

On Montevidayo today.

More about Basquiat, poetry and the mess of kitsch

Can be read on Montevidayo today.

Basquiat, "Radiant Child"

I wrote a review of the new Basquiat Documentary over at Montevidayo.

"Blackie," Basquiat and Mr Rogers

Are some of the figures I talk about in my new post on Montevidayo: The Messy Fascination of Repulsion.
And of course I talk about: The immigrant is kitsch (as pertaining to Basquiat).

Twin Peaks and Wounds/Media

I wrote something about Twin Peaks and wounds and corridors for Montevidayo.

Translation Wounds: Christian Hawkey, Aase Berg etc

I wrote a post about "translation wounds" in Christian Hawkey's new book Ventrakl, Aase Berg's book Forsla Fett and my own book Pilot:

“I would like to think of translation as wound through which media enters into a textual body. The wound of translation makes impossible connections between languages, unsettling stable ideas of language, productive ideas of literature. It is these wounds – wounds that foreground the media of language and image – that I am interested in thinking about today.”

Blake Butler, Steve Tomasula

I wrote a post about design in Blake Butler and Steve Tomasula over at Montevidayo.