Texts
This is an ongoing series of articles and essays with subjects including art, performance and culture.
A Curious Descent
An article of various related and unrelated subjects that may only evince meaning after several determined attempts at reading.
Tuber Matrix: Putting the Root Back into Ritual
Being a series of unrelated and quite disparate subjects for the student of the obscure.
The bifurcations of bilge
Being some meditations on memorable canteen medals, banned comics, art dealers, and other diversions of an amusing and entertaining manner.
Bury Me The Mask – Article 2014
Magazine article published in Mobile 3, November 2014. With inserts by Andrew Cochrane.
PALMIER ROI: Being some rambles around Palermo, Sicily
King of the Palms – The Grand Hotel et des Palmes Palermo, September 2014: my sojourn in Sicily for a week commenced in an air conditioned communion with the spirits of the former guests of this once ostentatious hotel, whose …
Looking at the Watchers
In exploring the grotesque I am encountering new epiphanies in photographs found online or in obsolete books. The selective eye screens thousands, hundreds of thousands of images before, like a fly it settles on something choice to feed upon and …
Sleight of Hand
Whilst visiting Rome I stumbled across a curious painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch called ‘The Conjourer’ (c.1475-80) in an extraordinary exhibition, tucked away in a 16th century palazzo just a few streets from the Pantheon. There are at …
Some vignettes on shadows and best kept secrets
As with early hand tinted cinema films, certain sections of a performance may appear in ethereal colours, augmented by ultra violet light, or accentuated by mutlicoloured shadow play. The initial effect is as fleeting and arbitrary as it is accidental; …
Towards a new barbarism of expression – Essay March 2014
Notes from the Zone: Towards a new barbarism of expression. Some notes about prehistoric art objects, images and notions about shamanism/performance art.
Bury Me The Mask – Essay 2013
Shaun Caton with inserts by Andrew Cochrane. Shaun Caton: I have been making performances since my childhood, when I created a secret world, with impossibly obsessive rules. A world of bizarre croaking languages, confined spaces full of weeds, broken glass …