K.A. Laity's Blog, page 15

Medieval Tallinn

Owls, amber (a green man!), cobblestones, a well, a dragon, a composer, towers, walls, gardens, monks, and Alexander Nevsky’s church! Many more photos to come! Click to embiggen any individual image.

Hyena

HEXENTEXTE announces the publication of HYENA to mark the centennial of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism. Edited by Cindy Rehm and Adrienne Walser, the publication includes works that look to the legacy of women’s surrealism, explorations of identity, inner-life, corporeality, ritual, eroticism, animality, and mortality. Inspired by Leonora Carrington, we took the hyena as... Read More

Leonora @ Kumu

The first of the Tallinn posts: I was considering getting down to Tartu to see the Estonian Surrealist exhibit, but there just wasn’t time in my schedule. Oh but wait — posters around town advertising Leonora at the Kumu? Yes, please. Enjoy the vicarious visit to the exhibit, where I made the docent nervous by... Read More

Write 4 a Day 14 Jul 2024

Ripley & Saltburn

I’m off to the EUPop conference soon — my last formal academic conference (probably, maybe–except for pop culture…) — and because I won’t get around to other things before I depart, here’s a peek at my slides for that talk on two related topics (with a bunch of other things [surrealism!] shoehorned in because that’s... Read More

Birmingham Beauties

More anon, but some snaps to see the lovely sights in central Birmingham. Yes, I will give you a lot more on the Victorian Radicals! In fact I will make a reel, I think, And of course more on the Magickal Women Conference — so full of ideas and sparks. And yes, I was on... Read More

Anaïs Nin by Louis Andriessen

When looking for one thing you often find another: I came across this DVD of a theatre piece I did not know at all from 2010. I have been enamoured of Nin since coming across her diaries as a teenager. All part of the thread of surrealism that runs through my life, from Alice onwards,... Read More

V&A Dundee: Kimono

I endeavoured to not take eleventy billion photos and mostly managed. The V&A exhibit is fascinating and overwhelming and gives both the history of the kimono and how it continues to be inovated both within and without Japan — yes, including that Sparks LP, Freddie Mercury, Star Wars, Björk and Alexander McQueen. I am endeavouring... Read More

Chicago & PCA

I am woefully behind on news. I blame losing my job, way of life and all, but at least I am not under literal siege, so there’s that. PCA is always a much anticipated because there are so many people I only see there these days, including the always delightful Miss Wendy, my roommate in... Read More

Judith’s Hybrid Elfin Beauty

I have recorded an abbreviated version of my talk at the International Society for the Study of Surrealism conference in Houston last November. It lacks all the digressions and asides that filled the 20 minute slot, and is probably the better for it. The focus is one of Leonora Carrington’s plays recently if belatedly published... Read More