SpeculativeSpeculative Arts Arts Research Research • • Issue Issue 2 2 • • 01-15-2019 1-15-2019 Speculative Arts Research • Issue 2 • 01-15-2019 Speculative Arts Research: Issue 2 (January, 2019) Edited by Alessandro Keegan and Max Razdow ©2019 Speculative Arts Research. All Rights Re- served. Contact:
[email protected] http://www.speculativeartsresearch.com/ All Images are Courtesy of the Artist. Speculative Arts Research • Issue 2 • 01-15-2019 1. Samuel Stoeltje on Paul Laffoley 2. Max Razdow on Rammellzee 3. Thom Donovan on The Occult 4. Alessandro Keegan interview: Domenico Zindato 5. Brian Chidester on The High Llamas 6. Amy Hale on Barry William Hale SAR 2 • 01-15-19 “Even More Alive”: Phenomenology of Dimensionality in Paul Laffoley’s Theory/Practice • Samuel Stoeltje • “Prometheus up in Spaceland was bound for bringing down fire for mortals, but I – poor Flatland Prometheus – lie here in prison for bringing down nothing to my countrymen. Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some man- ner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.”1 -Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland Paul Laffoley, DAS URPFLANZE HAUS PART B, 1968, The Estate of Paul Laffoley courtesy Kent Fine Art 1 Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 216. SAR 2 • 01-15-19 Paul Laffoley, DAS URPFLANZE HAUS PART A (detail), 1968, The Estate of Paul Laffoley courtesy Kent Fine Art Introduction This paper intends to circle around a word, “dimensionality,” and concerns itself with the way in which it was used by American artist and contactee Paul Laffoley in his artwork and writings.