ISSUE 5 THE MYTH OF REVOLT Do you sense it—on the streets, in the dreamtime, by the shore? Like a great hand that glows in the dark, groping to strangle destiny, the myth of revolt is feeling its way into existence. Let’s go searching to assemble the scattered limbs of the black god. As a start, we propose three Domains of Revolt that will act as surrealist vehicles for our summoning. Published by Peculiar Mormyrid peculiarmormyrid.com All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher or author. Texts Copyright © The Authors Images Copyright © The Artists Direction: Jason Abdelhadi, Casi Cline, Steven Cline, Angel Therese Dionne, Patrik Sampler First Edition 2017 CONTRIBUTORS Jason Abdelhadi Tori Lion Armando Urias Anderson Michael Löwy Daphnée Azoulay Andrew Mendez Maurizio Brancaleoni Thomas Mordant Maria Brothers Luiz Morgadinho Miguel de Carvalho Steve Morrison Steven Cline David Nadeau Casi Cline Lucy Zae Porter Dominick Coppi John Richardson Laura Corsiglia Jose Manuel Rojo David Coulter Ody Saban Angel Therese Dionne Ron Sakolsky Vicente Gutiérrez Escudero Mark Sanders Mattias Forshage Andria Matta May Schaal Javier Gálvez Gregg Simpson Jesús García Rodríguez Ethan Snyder Joël Gayraud Maurice Spira Jan Gillam RW Spryszak Guy Girard Dan Stanciu Annalynn Hammond Michael Vandelaar Janice Hathaway Allan Vilu Dale Houstman John Welson Karl Howeth Tim White Joseph Jablonski Craig Wilson Bruno Jacobs Claire Wylde Ian Kappos Stephen Kirin Collective Submissions: Megan Leach Chimaera Surrealist Group (Ottawa) Lee Levinson CAPA Collective Rik Lina House of Mysticum Neko Linda Williams Roger Farr/Sheila Nopper/Ron Sakolsky CONTENTS INQUIRY ....................6 TIM WHITE...................8 STEVEN CLINE..................15 CEPHALOPODA JASON ABDELHADI .............. 23 DEBORAH STEVENSON ............ 24 PENELOPE ROSEMONT ............. 27 JOSIE MALINOWSKA................29 JESSE TREECE ..................32 BRUNO BARNABÉ .................38 INNER ISLAND SURREALIST GROUP . .........42 BILL WOLAK .............. ..... 45 KARL HOWETH ............... 48 DALE HOUSTMAN .............. 49 BILL WOLAK .............. ..... 50 MEGAN LEACH ............... 54 MATTIAS FORSHAGE............ ...55 CASI CLINE...................61 PATRIK SAMPLER.................62 ANDREW MENDEZ............... 67 CASI CLINE...................70 DEBORAH STEVENSON ..............71 MAURIZIO BRANCALEONI..............72 PIERRE-ANDRÉ SAUVAGEOT.............75 PIETER J. SCHERMER...............79 NUDIBRANCHIA EMMA LUNDENMARK............. 82 STEVEN CLINE ............... 83 ARTHUR DAVID SPOTA...............85 ALEX JANUÁRIO.................89 MICHAEL RICHARDSON............ 92 DEBORAH STEVENSON ..............96 ODY SABAN . .................97 RW SPRYSZAK.............. .... 100 RENZO MARGONARI............. 103 DAVID NADEAU............... 104 CHRISTIAN GIRARD............. 105 JOFFREY FLOYD DOYON .............107 EMMA LUNDENMARK............. 110 MEGAN LEACH .................110 GALE AHRENS .................111 HEIDI BIRD ................ 112 JOHN WELSON. ................115 RIK LINA ................ .... 115 LAURA LAKE................ 116 DOMINICK COPPI.............. 120 RIKKI DUCORNET................121 PAUL MCRANDLE ................122 JOHN RICHARDSON............. 123 CRUSTACEA KENN KENNEDY .............. 125 STEVE MORRISON .............. 126 MEGAN LEACH................ 127 T.D.TYPALDOS................ 128 EMMA LUNDENMARK............. 130 BETH GARON ................ 131 NEKO LINDA................. 132 DAVEY WILLIAMS, JOHNNY WILLIAMS, JANICE HATHAWAY...132 FRESH DIRT................. 133 STEPHEN KIRIN................ 134 ALEX JANUÁRIO.................137 MERL FLUIN................. 142 RIK LINA ...................143 ALLAN VILU ................ 145 STELLI KERK ................. 145 KENN KENNEDY .............. 125 STEVE MORRISON .............. 126 MEGAN LEACH................ 127 PIETER J. SCHERMER...............149 MICHAEL RICHARDSON............ 152 MARIA BROTHERS................157 KATE TATTERSFIELD ............. 159 GUY GIRARD..................161 JANICE HATHAWAY.............. 162 EMMA LUNDENMARK............. 163 BEATRIZ HAUSNER.............. 164 JOËL GAYRAUD............... 165 MADREPORA LEEDS SURREALIST GROUP........... 168 THE SURREALIST GROUP OF STOCKHOLM..... 174 CM LUNDBERG............... 186 JASON ABDELHADI & AMBER CRAIG ....... 187 SLUT, THE SURREALIST LONDON UNDER TAKERS......197 QUESTIONS................ 199 JOHN RICHARDSON & JOHN WELSON........ 201 OCEAN PROVERBS & SUPERSTITIONS....... 203 BURIAL AT SEA............... 205 TIM WHITE................ 207 S HIGGINS................. 210 THE DOMAIN OF THE MASK Revolt has many faces. Can you recognize it? The Mask of Revolt is somewhere out there, grinning in the shadows, calling your name. Go out into your city or somehow step “outside” (whether into the streets, zones of exteriority, atopses, worthless places, urban atmospheres). Find the mask and acknowledge its presence in whatever form it may choose to appear to you. Play with it, photograph it, film it, describe it, or otherwise communicate what you discover. 6 Annalynn Hammond Masquerade #3 7 A DIARY, INCLUDING PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTERS WITH MATERIAL FRAGMENTS (TOWARDS A NEW MYTH?) JASON ABDELHADI February 2nd, 2017 – 11:46 AM – Ottawa 8 I am drifting along a cul de sac of cramped residences bordering the highway called Hurdman Yard. It is a claustrophobic place to walk. Houses face directly onto an industrial storage site, a snowplow yard and a depot for old restaurant equipment. In the glare of the sun I encounter a black cat with an elongated shadow. Fine. Then we will negate in the shade. Poe and Lovecraft have speculated on the special role of these house pets that double-up as secret agents from the dream lands. But in that case, is its furry body the mask, and its shadow the real? Stepping into a Randolph Carter role, I am encouraged to speculate in mytho- logical connections ranging from Ancient Egypt to the IWW. I admit that I walk with such stupid confidence towards a creature that could be much more than it seems. For the shadow cat, the streets do not seem so solid. In its disembodied form it appears to easily pass between worlds. Thankfully I realize I should not approach it too closely. A rebel might do wisely to learn from its disguise. It prowls like a frondeur; it knows the alleys and the crevices; you can hardly accuse it, it is a harmless cat, to all appearances; it prepares traps and ambushes under the noses of the bourgeoisie. When the time comes, the trap might spring, and the social order will lie dead and bleeding beside it, a gift: a mangled songbird. The Shadow of the Cat (1961) 9 March 12th, 2017 – 8:43 AM – New York City 10 I am walking through midtown Manhattan. On the corner of a door- way, I notice the silhouette of an owl outlined in chipped paint. It seems to watch the infrequent passerby. I can feel the shift in the city’s atmo- sphere, of which it is maybe an integral though subtle part, a haphazard formation on a doorway to what will be. Perhaps it relates to the old man in the stump / owl in the stump from Bosch’s The Trees Have Ears and the Fields Have Eyes, which the Surrealist Group of Stockholm brought to our attention in the Sea issue of Peculiar Mormyrid. But I notice that in its watch this time around the owl significantly has no eyes. It is a mask in silhouette. A rubbed out Athenian coin. I wonder if I put it on, whether I will become a stain like it, standing guard, counting down the minutes… Will the hour ever strike? Or is it a clock without a cuckoo? The informal watch gives way to urban conspiracy. Like the cat, which it recalls to me, it is a hunter. When the time comes, and the clock strikes May, it could fly out of the silhouette. Its hoot will cause the all well- mounted monuments of the city to sunder. Athenian Tetradrachm (480-420BCE) / Woodsy Owl Coin (1970) 11 March 26, 2017 – 1:29 PM – Ottawa 12 Coming out of an underpass at the beginning of The Glebe neigh- bourhood, a sign is waiting for me: a typical bonhomme eager to foist the latest inconvenient imperative on pedestrians. But looking closer, I see this particular icon has revolted against propriety and set itself apart from its colleagues by donning what seems to be a plague doctor’s mask. The face of pestilence. At the same time, it could also be a buffoon. On the city’s stage, it sometimes plays the doctor, the charlatan, the harlequin or the learned professor. The magical masks of Gozzi (“Here I have the famous magic root mandragora. The Universal Doctor and Great Herbalist Pimpernel, Market Square, second door to the right”). A Tengu. It is Sigmund Freud. One might see it on its way, and per- haps chuckle at its harmless, bumbling demeanour. Other times one may ask it for advice. But what one doesn’t always know, are the subjects of its study: dreams, the unconscious, dialectics, pataphysics, the dark arts, alchemy, the formation of situations, and materialist history? It brings out with its experiments the hidden sulphurs of the city. In its library, it sequesters banned children’s books, hidden plans, indeed, results… I see the mask of an enthusiast; put it on, and become the necromancer. Yes, it is at once a supervillain and a psychoanalyst. Doctor Mabuse. My city, this place, the whole world will be enchanted, and then, wiped out. 13 Johann Melchior Füssli – A plague doctor of Marseilles (c.