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INFRA NOIR

Articles, Books, Chapters, and Events related to the Bucharest Surrealist group "Infra Noir" (Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Trost, Paul Paun, Virgil Teodorescu, and fellow travelers)

"LOOK EAST AND WEST BEFORE CROSSING"

February 2023

A catalog essay for the exhibition Victor Brauner: Inventions and Magic (Art Encounters Foundation Timișoara, February 17-May 28, 2023). Curator and catalog editor: Camille Morando.

"AN INFRA-NOIR DICTIONARY"

In Infra-Noir: Anatomies of Desire, Metamorphoses of the Image (Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara, Romania)

The first of three issues accompanying the exhibition Infra-Noir. Ed. Diana Marincu & Mica Gherghescu

DADA/SURREALISM VOL. 20, NO. 1: FROM DADA TO INFRA-NOIR: DADA, SURREALISM, AND ROMANIA

"Dialectical Despair: Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, and the Hazards of a Non-Oedipal Life"

CAIETELE AVANGARDEI

*Special issue on Gellu Naum, Fall 2015

"Crystals, Precipitations, and Gellu Naum's Medium"

*Special issue on Infra Noir, Fall 2017

"Cette Ligne du Non: The Infra Noir Group and the Surrealist Cold War"

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HYPERION: ON THE FUTURE OF AESTHETICS VOL. IX NO. 2 (AUTUMN 2015)

Gellu Naum Centenary Issue

"De Praestigiis Daemonum: Gellu Naum and the Monstrous Surrealist Object"

"A REVOLUTION IN CONSCIOUSNESS: DOLFI TROST'S VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE"

ARTMargins Vol. 1 Issues 2-3: Artists' Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe

Translation with introduction.

SURREALISM, 'PATAPHYSICS, DADA

Articles, Books, Chapters, Events

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURREALISM

Michael Richardson ed., Bloomsbury, April 2019

Volume 1: Movements > Romania.
Encyclopedia article on Surrealism in Romania.

'PATAPHYSICS UNROLLED

Price & Taylor eds., Penn State University Press, Spring 2022
Refiguring Modernism series

Book chapter: "Wartime 'Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism and Boris Rybak's Intraphysics."

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"SURREALISM IS A THING"

ARTMargins Vol. 5 Issue 3: Art Periodicals Today

"Surrealism is a Thing: Rubrics and Objectivation in the Surrealist Periodical, 1924-2015"

33RD BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO

November 15-19, 2018

Performative talk with Joanna Fiduccia: "Two Varieties of Surrealist Attention"

EVENTS IN BEIRUT, LEBANON

2014-2016

* Talk at the American University of Beirut, "Sarane Alexandrian and Lebanese Surrealism" – December 15, 2014

* Lecture at the Orient-Institut Beirut conference The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa, and the Middle East from the 1930s: "Specialists in Revolt: the Turkish Surrealist Group" – November 14-15, 2016

* Talk with Adrian Notz (director of Cabaret Voltaire) and Saleh Barakat, "Cabaret Voltaire as Gesamtkunstwerk"; part of the event Yalla Dada at Station Beirut (in collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich) – November 22, 2016

L'ESPRIT CRÉATEUR

Proust en devenir (special issue edited by Luc Fraisse), Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter 2006

"The Anonymous Flesh of Time: Merleau-Ponty and Blanchot on Proust"

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