Self-portrait by Jon Jacobsen from his Home series.
• Steven Arnold: Cabinet of Curiosities is “a retrospective exhibition of this groundbreaking yet under-recognized queer artist at the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum in West Hollywood. The exhibition celebrates Arnold’s radical imagination, presenting many of his tableaux vivant photographs alongside never before exhibited drawings, sketchbooks, paintings and original poster art. In conjunction with the exhibition, ONE will screen Arnold’s four films, including Luminous Procuress (1970), which featured The Cockettes and was lauded by Salvador Dalí.” The exhibition runs to January 12, 2013.
• “The boundary-pushing techno/sound design duo Emptyset will transform London’s cavernous industrial space Ambika P3 into an immersive sound installation for one night only—and here’s how they’re going to do it”.
• “At one time he was a well-known figure in Montparnasse, where he had a reputation as a master of the occult sciences.” Aleister Crowley is interviewed about his expulsion from France in 1929.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded… [T]hey forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality.
William James (1842–1910) quoted in What Should We Do With Our Visions of Heaven—and Hell? by John Horgan at Scientific American.
• Screws is an album of piano music by Nils Frahm that’s currently available as a free download (inc. aiffs).
• At Pinterest: Art Visonnaire. Related: Ain’t We Got Fun: The magical surrealism of Jen Ray.
• Rowan Somerville “challenges the purpose and legitimacy” of the Bad Sex Awards.
• Jimmy’s End: the website for the film by Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins.
• Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
• Linda Rodriguez McRobbie explores The History of Boredom.
• Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
• Alchemical Emblems, Occult Diagrams, and Memory Arts.
• Rocaille: A Blog about Decadence, Kitsch and Godliness.
• A new video for Goddess Eyes II by Julia Holter.
• The complete audio recordings of Jean Cocteau.
• The Rumpus interview with Russ Kick.
• Forgotten Bookmarks
• RIP Spain Rodriguez
• Astradyne (1980) by Ultravox (produced by Conny Plank) | Biomutanten (1981) by Les Vampyrettes (Conny Plank & Holger Czukay) | Never Gonna Cry Again (1981) by Eurythmics (feat. Holger Czukay, produced by Conny Plank).
