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Details from 'Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber,' published by @fulgur.press⁠ ⁠ Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York's Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen’s initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber—a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Cohen invited visitors to play another self within this small theater, among them Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Vali Myers, Jack Smith, Angus MacLise, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lionel Ziprin, Ching Ho Cheng, Petra Vogt, Charles Ludlam, John McLaughlin and the rock group Spirit.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #iracohen #mylarchamber #psychadelic #halloween #costume #roleplay #sorcery #hashishcookbook #InvasionofThunderboltPagoda https://www.instagram.com/p/CkT-Tfwpbu1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ira Cohen - The Mylar Chamber

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Poet, Kabbalist, Mystic, Lionel Ziprin and photographer, folk historian, Clayton Paterson, Small Press Book fair, New York City, snapped by Allen, December 2, 1990. We’ve made several posts about Lionel this week on our website allenginsberg.org Shimmy on over if you want more on this completely fascinating character. But in brief: Poet, artist, Kabbalist, descendent of mystics and, some say, mystic himself, Lionel Ziprin has spent a lifetime in the artistic ferment and social upheavals of the Lower East Side. His life straddles the LES of Henry Roth (Call It Sleep) and Michael Gold (Jews Without Money), as well as the East Village of Thelonious Monk and Allen Ginsberg. Ziprin penned comic books after the war, lectured on the Zohar in the sixties to Bruce Connor and Ira Cohen, composed a thousand-page epic poem entitled Sentencial Metaphrastic, (‘I reduced it to 785 pages. I call it the longest and most boring poem since Milton’s Paradise Lost’). He nurtured the work of his friend Harry Smith, who recorded the liturgical music of Ziprin’s grandfather, the eminent Orthodox rabbi and Kabbala scholar Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, at his yeshiva, the legendary Home of the Sages of Israel, on the Lower East Side, in the early fifties. - David Katz / Jewish Quarterly 2006.. #lionelziprin #claytonpaterson #harrysmith #theloniousmonk #lowereastside #LES #bruceconnor #allenginsberg #newyorkcity #kabbalist #mystics #henryroth #iracohen #zohar (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVoZO3BaUp/?igshid=1s1850386pk14

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As far as having fun, dressing up, experimenting and basically taking it all the way, we can think of no better Halloween inspiration than 'Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber,' published by @fulgur.press⁠ ⁠ This is truly a one-of-a-kind book — the first to explore poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen's iconic Mylar Chamber photographs, made 1968-71 in a loft on Jefferson Street, NYC.⁠ ⁠ Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen’s initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber—a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Cohen invited visitors to play another self within this small theater, among them Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Vali Myers, Jack Smith, Angus MacLise, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lionel Ziprin, Ching Ho Cheng, Petra Vogt, Charles Ludlam, John McLaughlin and the rock group Spirit.⁠ ⁠ In December 1969, in a summary of the past decade, @life magazine declared that “few came as close to explaining the euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics” as Cohen through his Mylar Chamber photographs, but the full story draws upon much deeper ideas surrounding identity and the power of the image.⁠ ⁠ Published on the 50th anniversary of the Life feature, and with several gatefolds, it includes more than 70 images from this intensely creative period, each digitally restored from the original negatives by Cohen’s friend and collaborator, Ira Landgarten. It also includes an interview with Cohen, excerpts from his poetry, critical writing from Allan Graubard and Ian MacFadyen and further reflections from Timothy Baum, Alice Farley and Thurston Moore.⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #iracohen #mylarchamber #halloween @alicefarleydance @thurstonmoore58 https://www.instagram.com/p/CVoBecjjaGo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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