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Mini gooch portrait

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A captive bottlenose fish [also known as the eastern bottle-nosed mormyrid, Mormyrus longirostris] interacting with enrichment in their tank. These fish use their long mouth parts to search for prey in muddy substrate. This one has possibly learned that if they nudge the golf balls in their aquarium, they’ll get a treat.

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PECULIAR MORMYRID ISSUE 8 - AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

Web Version: http://peculiarmormyrid.com/issue-8/ Black & White Print: https://tinyurl.com/ycj99qmx Color Print Version: https://tinyurl.com/y9exybs2 Free PDF: https://tinyurl.com/yc43tpuq

"Unusual weather we're having ain't it?" - The Cowardly Lion

There are arcane influences above our heads and below our feet. We go about our business for the most part sandwiched between them. Like opposites as two sides of one organism: the sunny side and the shadow side, visible and hidden, outside and inside, known and secret. Is to time to reconsider, or re-affirm the Hermetic dictum “As above, so below?” Taking our cue from the numerological reduplication invoked by these figure 8s, this issue the Mormyrid is pursuing two parallel hypotheses:

AS ABOVE - SURREALISM AND THE WEATHER: To move ahead, as Paul Nougé once suggested, poetry could integrate itself with other disciplines. This means adapting to new and shifting climates. We propose to conduct a thorough poetic investigation of the odd bundle of exteriorized phenomena we collectively, and perhaps hastily, label “the weather”. Is surrealism able to thrive as a weathervane?

SO BELOW - SURREALISM UNDERGROUND: To move ahead, poetry could on the other hand could dig deep and stay entirely out of the sun. Drawing on the lessons of subterranean creatures, crypts, and tunneled atmospheres we seek to explore the caverns of the spirit in its least accessible corners. As an environment and a concept, what secrets does the underground hold for the poetic spirit?

(Cover Art by Andrew Mendez)

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“In everything one treads on, there is something that comes from so much farther back than mankind and which is also going so much farther.”—Arcanum 17 “It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities, and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.”—The Call of Cthulhu Against the heteropatriarchal nuclear family of the petrostate, where the most shattering and resplendent of scientific revelations is infantilized and repressively-desublimated into extraction-industrial spectacles of unearthing and devouring, we surrealists remain committed to the Eros of the antediluvian world. With the aid of invisible rays we find primal scenes hidden in the vanes of a petrified feather. We will enter our submersibles and sift the bones of our dream creatures from the silt of Challenger Deep, discover our Lascaux and Chauvet Caves within the concentric rings of the human peritoneum, and make airplanes and plague-deserted shopping malls rust in the indecent foliage of prehistory. Today is the day you discover a lost continent in the subway tunnels of your city, where stalagmites and mammoth tusks murmur their extinct languages. We strongly emphasize that the greatest scientific revolution of the end of the eighteenth century was not the excavation of a single “deep time”: indispensably, it simultaneously encompassed the beginning of the paleontology of psychic depth and the future permanent inscription of our own species in the fossil record. In addition to submissions explicitly envisioning the prehuman past, we encourage speculative explorations of the overlap of geological and archaeological deep time, Dreamtime, post-Capitalocene future deep time, the flora and fauna of your childhood doodles, the interval between falling asleep and waking, the suspended time of fossilization, and the interior archives and libraries of the hollow Earth. Let’s curl ourselves into the mane of a mummified dinosaur before the long-awaited glaciation of fatbergs consumes us all…

All media types accepted.

We also invite participants to answer the following Surrealist Questionnaire on Deep Time, open to interested members of the general public alongside already practicing surrealists: 1. Surrealists have often described their most convulsive experiences and experiments in terms of reaching different times or worlds. Do you find this to be true for you? To what extent (or in what sense) are we contemporary with other ages in Earth’s history? 2. Do you know how old the rocks are in your area, upon which you live? How does that affect your life and attitudes? 3. Are fossils surrealist objects? Are there any specific fossils that have made a great impression on you, now or in childhood? Do you have any favourite found objects that you have always interpreted as fossils, whether reasonably or not? 4. What extinct animal would you most like to reappear, and why? (Originally appeared in the first issue of Arsenal, 1970) 5. Have you ever dreamed about fossils, extinct life forms, or prehistoric landscapes? 6. Describe the primal scene. 7. Walter Benjamin referred to the arcades of Paris as prehistoric caverns containing the bones of “the last dinosaur of Europe.” Is there a specific structure, place, image, or other thing (found where you live, or that you have otherwise seen in person) that you find to be especially reminiscent of a fossil? Think of architectural details, ruins, and urban archaeological miscellanea. You may want to go out and look for one. 8. How important is the concept of humanity to your conception of surrealist activity? How does it relate to other life forms and evolutionary history? 9. What kind of fossils from our current life are we leaving behind, and for whom? How are they going to be interpreted? DEADLINE – JULY 31, 2020 Send submissions to: [email protected]

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There will be a geography of flesh and bone that surpasses the everyday limitations and distinctions of the world. Swedenborg called it the “Maximus Homo, The Universal Human”; Artaud pointed to the “Body without Organs”, freed from limitations. You yourself must know it: that shifting borderland between inside and outside, psychic and physical, collective and individual, human and animal, geography and cosmology…

This game and exhibition will pose the problem of surrealism and the body—not just in the nostalgic sense of exquisite corpses and headless women, but rather in asking, what does the body mean in the 21st century—and what, despite the corporeal misery of the contemporary world, could it become?

THE EXHIBITION (September 5 to 19)

@ The Bakery – 825 Warner St, Atlanta, Georgia 30310

The body will be assembled and displayed at a space called The Bakery in Atlanta, Georgia. We encourage all those for whom it is possible to participate in-person. There will be surrealist presentations, events and games held at various points during the exhibition period. More details to follow.

We look forward to dissecting (with) you!

Yours in pieces, -The Mormyrids

http://peculiarmormyrid.com/the-polymorph-bodyshop/