Autor: Le Bastart

Bestiality: mystical fusion o subversive tool

In pagan periods myths and legends abound, stories and oral narratives in which coitus between species, far from being stigmatized, exalted the animist communion with nature, virility of gods and heroes, transmuting power of the erotic imagination… With Christianity, the priapic nature spirits become evil beings, the bucolic image of satyr chasing nymphs is replaced in the popular imagination by the goat copulating with witches. Secular societies labeled bestiality among sexual deviations, and then exploited […]

El Palomar, lugar de cruce y cauce

Hedonismo crítico es el título del próximo evento de El Palomar, pero también resume el posicionamiento artístico que ha regido este proyecto desde su nacimiento. Tras este aparente oxímoron o palabra compuesta de términos incasables se define un modo renovado de entender la producción cultural: la fiesta no está reñida con la reflexión, la hondura conceptual no lo está con la diversión. Mariokissme y R. Marcos Mota, sus artífices, siempre han sido elocuentes en la […]

El Palomar, crossing point

Next event organized by El Palomar is entitled Hedonismo crítico, but this expression also summarizes the artistic position that has governed this project since its inception. Behind this apparent oxymoron or word composed by contradictory terms, is defined a renovated way of understanding cultural production: the party is not incompatible with reflection, conceptual depth with having fun. Mariokissme and R. Marcos Mota, its creators, have always been eloquent in choosing headings. Ever since the inaugural […]

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Bajo la piel

En Magnitud imaginaria Stanislaw Lem se propuso compilar prólogos de libros inexistentes, de autores inventados, siguiendo la senda abierta por Borges pero ahorrándose ese borgiano levantar parapetos de erudición cansina. Uno de esos prólogos estaba dedicado a Strzybisz, un artista que supuestamente causó alto revuelo con sus pornogramas, una serie fotográfica de tema erótico realizada con Rayos X. Algunos críticos las tildaron de divertimentos siniestros, a modo de cópulas de esqueletos saltarines. Pero estas caricaturas, […]

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Under the skin

  In Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem compiled prologues of nonexistent books, written by invented authors, following the way opened by Borges Borges but without his annoying scholarship. One of these prologues was dedicated to Szybisz, an artist who caused a stir with his pornograms, a photographic series of erotic themes made with X-ray equipment. Some critics branded it as sinister romp, as «copulation of jumping skeletons». But these caricatures, reflects on the prolog writer, keep […]

Love and electromagnetism

The nickname which the popular imagination of the late nineteenth baptized Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park, realizes the degree of fascination generated by the battery inventions attributed to the engineer. The man who has made captive echo; in these terms introduced Villiers de L’Isle Adam the inventor of the phonograph, making protagonist of one of the most misogynistic plots in the history of science fiction: as a maker of its future Eva moved by […]

Amor y electromagnetismo

El sobrenombre con el que la imaginación popular de finales del XIX bautizó a Edison, El Mago de Menlo Park, da cuenta del grado de fascinación que generó la batería de inventos atribuidos al ingeniero. El hombre que ha hecho cautivo el eco; en estos términos introduce Villiers de L’Isle Adam al inventor del fonógrafo, haciéndolo protagonista de una de las tramas más misóginas de la historia de la literatura fantástica: como artífice de su […]

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From tactile cinema to virtual interaction: voyeurs, handsies and exhibitionists

In a letter to Buñuel, Dalí speculate on the feasibility of a cinema that went beyond the retinal. He imagined a conveyor belt in front of the viewer where there would passing tactile substitutes of what was seen on the screen: would pass grafts of hair when is seen the sex of a woman, rubber breasts when the protagonist caresses a girl’s ones… Duchamp dadaist joke with his Prière de toucher (latex breast asking to […]