I often live in/with the fantasy that I’ll have the time to write extensively about all my travels and experiences. So far, it remains mainly a fantasy. I’m happy that I always bring a camera because otherwise I would seriously doubt that all the things going on are actually real. This month of May was a supreme example of overheated activity. Thank you, camera.
I started out by traveling with Linn Sparrenborg to beautiful Macedonia, to the Skopje International Film Festival. Being picked up in a black Mercedes and treated as a modern day Ingmar Bergman did not in any way decimate my already high sense of hubris. We were there to introduce and screen Silent Lips at the festival, and it was fantastic. Always a pleasure and a learning experience to watch the film on a real screen and with good sound. I think my attitude towards filmmaking is now not only “learning by doing” but also “learning in public”.
After only a few days at home, it was London time: manifesting the Psychoanalysis, Art & The Occult-symposium together with Vanessa Sinclair. For more information about that adventure, please see this blog post. Still can’t believe we pulled it off, but we did!
After only a few days at home with a severe post-London emotional hangover, I returned to Berlin to spend more time with the lovely Vanessa. The Günther Brus exhibition at Martin Gropius now ranks as one of the best I’ve ever, ever seen.
On to Warsaw and another wonderful Okultura Festival. My book Reasonances was published in Polish, I gave a talk on the importance of documentation, the An Art Apart documentaries on Charles Gatewood and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge were screened, and I just felt overwhelmed by the positive response. The following evening was all music. X-Navi:ET and Mohammad took us to other dimensions, with rhythms and drones respectively. Cotton Ferox played live to Sub Umbra Alarum Luna, and then William Bennett / Cut Hands had us all spastically taking in the power of rhythm again. What a wonderful festival.
While at home, I pushed on fervently with new books. California Infernal: Anton LaVey and Jayne Mansfield as portrayed by Walter Fischer was sent to the printers, and I carried on with the new issue of The Fenris Wolf. A new TRAPART site was launched, including all books and presently available films on DVD. Many thanks to Alf Wahlgren for development and progress in the best possible way.
THANKS and love to everyone who crossed my path and thereby enhanced my life!
And then, just like that, the merry month of May was over. It makes me wonder what June will be like.
