Mapping Antonin Artaud

November 5, 2016 by

The very last installment in my commentary series for Jacket2 is a Google Map that includes photos and videos embedded in the plot points of Artaud’s biography, his performances, and his legacy. You can check it out here: http://jacket2.org/commentary/mapping-antonin-artaud.

Thanks to all the kind people at Jacket2 & especially Jessica Lowenthal. I’ll miss working on this project & it’s an honor to be a part of the Jacket2 tribe. This has been one of my dream publications for a long time. I’m so happy to have gotten to work with these folks.

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Artaud Through the Looking Glass

October 28, 2016 by

My latest installment at Jacket2 tackles Artaud’s glossolalia in his translation of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass: “By overwriting Carroll’s text with veritable nonsense, Artaud is inserting his own theory of neologisms. Artaud has spent most of his life trying to escape the strictures of reality as we understand it—reaching for an expression that is beyond language. Carroll’s text was the springboard for creating new words that pointed nowhere and everywhere at once…” You can read the whole thing here.

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Antonin Artaud: Asylums & After

September 8, 2016 by

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There’s a new post up at Jacket2: “On his way back from Ireland in 1937, Artaud was put into a straight jacket. Once back on French soil, he was turned over to the authorities. This was the beginning of a nine-year stint in hospitals with Artaud in what biographer Martin Esslin called a ‘near-catatonic state.’”

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