#ARTAUD

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

[0ktubre]

me when Spanish rock

[astoldbymiia]

totalmente yo

[evignonita]

🧠🧠

[ldr-lil2]

[altrbody]

Anatomical Venus, wax figure, Florence, Italy.

"Raised as a Roman Catholic, Grand Duke Peter Leopold was taught to condemn human dissection, which the Church Fathers deemed sacrilegious because it stripped the dead of viscera needed for the Last Judgement. But Peter Leopold was an enlightened despot who didn't want subjects to perish at the hands of unpracticed medics. In the early 1770s, the Italian physiologist Felice Fontana offered him a deal he couldn't refuse. In return for a supply of fresh cadavers, Fontana promised to replace human flesh with colored wax.

The technology was already well established. In ancient Greece, sculptors modeled wax to create funeral masks. Known as ceroplastics, the craft was revived in Renaissance Florence, and used to produce realistic-looking votive offerings such as ersatz hands and feet. Artists also introduced wax to religious statuary, often intentionally grotesque, embellished with real hair and teeth to maximize dramatic effect. Even a few anatomists had experience with ceroplastics, wrapping waxwork muscles around real-life skeletons for prolonged surgical study. (It helped that they weren't smelly.) . . . 

The historical term for such models is anatomical Venus. Many hundreds were made at the University of Florence under Fontana's supervision with Peter Leopold's patronage. Their anatomical accuracy was ensured by the cadavers provided to Fontana, which were dissected in the presence of sculptors who deftly replicated each part of the body. Because the wax could be cast, the models could be replicated and distributed far and wide. Prior to the invention of color photography, they were deemed the best available representation of human anatomy, optimal for teaching because they sidestepped religious controversy, diminished grave robbery, and averted the gag reflex induced by putrid flesh."

[joanrotten]

[rjdent]

Books I've written, translated or contributed to.

[nullandnone]

¿Dónde ves ahora algo en mí Que no detestes?

[cigarettes-after-death]

[pav-anne]

"cry" by antonin artaud

[certainwomen]

antonin artaud en napoléon (abel gance, 1927)

[wormchamp72]

Your blog feels very famous to me. The people who appear me most in my feed have both commemorated and noticed you. In my eyes you have P̷̨̛̜͈͓̩̝̋́͗̓̒̎̈́̓̆̌͘R̸͉̘̭͈͝Ę̴̘̣̺̬̤͉͓̜͓̆̏̀͐̽̅̀̀͑͑͝S̴̢̼̳̺̦̺̜͉͖͚͔̘̘̤̊͐̈̽͌̀̽́̈́͆͂͝͝T̷̟̖͛̅͜Í̵̧̢̛̩͚̪͍̼̾̈͗̅̽͒̎͠͝Ǧ̷̢͎͚̮̼̼̗̻̞̦̈́̆͊͛̏̇́̀̎͝ͅĘ̴̡̝̦̼̱̩̭̙̠̮̰̲̈͋̂ and you better believe prestige begets prestige; Now in order to curry your favor I will delight in telling you this: 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝙸 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚍 𝚊𝚜𝚔!

Curry my favor you have...I fancy myself an artful worm, and I give credit where credit is due (RE: Dad Recommends).

I am humbled 2 know that I am commemorated in my field...though, I suppose this is a message 2 all passionate people akin 2 The Worm: hard work and determination pays off. Never give up!

Yours cordially,

Wormchamp72

[sicsbss]

Vos sos el sol 🌞

Despacio también podes ser la luna

[leshorriblestravailleurs]

Video just uploaded on VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/909753554

‘Quitte ta langue’

by

Les Horribles Travavailleurs

Sound work + video, releated to a part of a the text ‘Paul the Birds, or The Place of Love’ - Antonin Artaud - 1925

Complete sound work on Bandcamp: https://leshorriblestravailleurs.bandcamp.com/track/quitte-ta-langue

Sound work: Les Horribles Travavailleurs.

Video: a z\w\a\r\t24 operation in 2016, execution and video by BIop.

Source of the title in the video:

‘Paul Les Oiseaux - ou La Place de l'amour’Manuscript - Antonin Artaud.

https://www.andrebreton.fr/work/56600100109320

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“Paolo Uccello is struggling in the middle of a vast mental web in which he has lost all the pathways of his soul, and even the form and the suspension of his reality.

Leave your tongue, Paolo Uccello, leave your tongue, my tongue, my tongue, shit, who is speaking, where are you? Beyond, beyond, Mind, Mind, fire, tongues of fire, fire, fire, eat your tongue, old dog, eat his tongue, eat, etc. I tear out my tongue.

YES”

from ‘Paul the Birds, or The Place of Love’ - Antonin Artaud – 1925