A surreal, comedic dialogue with Chase Griffin on improv, tone synesthesia, pratfalls, flamingos, grief, comedy as spell work, and finishing the unfinishable novel.
Tag: surreal
DNA Symphonies & Surreal Spillovers
What connects quantum DNA resonance and porridge-fueled body horror? Two pieces trace transmissions across science, psyche, and performance.
Porridge Play
A young woman discovers a piece of porridge has stayed on her hand after washing up. During another heartless hook-up with her less-than-desired girlfriend Derek, the porridge attaches onto the other, and her body is haunted by the staining of life.
The New Simplicity: Five Poems by Tom Valovic
Pandora’s Apocalyptarium: A Guided Tour And so it begins, the apocalyptic unraveling, Orwellian sleights of hand, the Pandora-like normalization of the surreal. Hollywood burning as predicted in the day of the locust. Police in Howard, Colorado, …
Behind the Mask, the Presence, and Behind the Presence, the Mask
What if masks aren’t merely objects that conceal, to be used by technocrats at Burning Man or by traumatized killers in slasher flicks… but interfaces between different realms of existence—between the visible and invisible worlds?
Ars Poetica
There is no rest for the search engine. The unquiet dead play games with the subject/ object interface. It appears that our operating system is not a friend to Jesus. Logos flash through the sky of the Sinkiang Autonomous Region. Our wet dreams run through fiberoptic cables.
The Face
He was but a breath, a simple creation of some greater existence. Nothing implied, nothing necessary, nothing required. Just a breath. As was the face. And is the face. And always will be the face.