#stephen barber

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I've just finished editing my modern English translation of Antonin Artaud's The Monk, published in August/September 2024 by Infinity Land Press.

Currently, book details are scarce as it's in production, but this is what's available so far:

Monk, The

Antonin Artaud Translated into modern English by R J Dent Introduction by Stephen Barber Illustrated by Martin Bladh Published by Infinity L

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Antonin Artaud : Years of Incarceration | by Stephen Barber

The asylum incarceration which Artaud underwent in the years from 1937 to 1946 has as much contradiction and productivity as the other phases of his life. But it was certainly the most deeply painf…

BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

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Antonin Artaud / Ivry – Blows and Bombs; by Stephen Barber 

“There is nothing I abominate and shit out so much as this idea of representation, that is, of virtuality, of non-reality, attached to all that is produced and shown… as if it were intended in this way to socialize and at the same time paralyse monsters, make the possibilities of explosive deflagration which are too dangerous for life pass instead by the channel of the stage, the screen or the microphone, and so turn them away from life.” Combat, Paris, 1 November 1947 

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“THE DUTY 

of the writer, of the poet 

is not to cowardly shut himself away in a text, a book, a magazine, from which he will never emerge, 

but on the contrary to emerge go outside 

to shake to attack 

the mind of the public 

if not 

what use is he?“

Antonin Artaud; Oeuvres Complètes XIII (ed. Paule Thévenin) Gallimard 1948-93

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“Delegada” by Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay (vocals & producer), Ceasar Mendes (guitar), Stephen Barber (keys, clarinet arrangement), & Bobby Malach (clarinets).

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The person who is creating their own action of Europe becomes exhausted by the exertion involved in the work, starts to hallucinate. The hallucinations are provoked to grind their way into images of the body, transforming instantly, formation to formation, obsession to obsession. The work of transformation itself is a grand hallucination that transports the body into a torrent of identity. The sensation of identity is hallucinated into a thousand metamorphoses, from the sexual angel to the murderous monster. The body is itself a hallucination: the head is the site of gross transmutation: magnified, obscured, revealed, sensationalized, obsessed, ignited.

STEPHEN BARBER The Raw Gesture of Europe