POLYMORPH BODYSHOP

9/10/2019

The Recordists (W.A.Davison + S.Higgins) currently have work in an international Surrealist exhibition in Atlanta, GA. "Polymorph Bodyshop" is a Surrealist game and exhibition featuring the work of Jason Abdelhadi, Michele Bachelet, Maria Brothers, Steven Cline, Casi Cline, Peggy Cline, Paul Cowdell, William Davison, Rikki Ducornet, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Kathleen Fox, Sebastián Jiménez Galindo, Javier Galvez, Joël Gayraud, Guy Girard, Ottawa Surrealist Group, Sa’ad Hassan, Janice Hathaway, Sherri Higgins, Bruno Jacobs, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Renay Kerkman, Arianna Khmelniuk, Megan Leach, Vittoria Lion, Margerie McDonald, Thomas Mordant, Steve Morrison, House of Mysticum, David Nadeau, Juan Carlos Otaño, Ody Saban, Ron Sakolsky, LaDonna Smith, Wedgwood Steventon, Joe Tsambiras, TH. D. Typaldos, Tim White, Craig Wilson, Sandra Martagex, and Flusnoix.

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POLYMORPH BODYSHOP
The Bakery
825 Warner St, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, U.S.A.
Sept. 5 - 19
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You may notice another Electronic Cottager listed above. David Nadeau also has work in this exhibition!

Facebook event page - https://www.facebook.com/events/605261833285931/

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W.A.Davison

W.A.Davison is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist who has been producing various forms of experimental art and music for over 35 years.

He studied fine art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and experimental/electronic music composition with Prof. Steve Tittle at Dalhousie University before moving to Toronto in 1989.

As a composer, improvisor, and instrument-builder, Davison has performed and recorded solo (as The Bim Prongs, Songs of the New Erotics, Th W rbl r, Panic Engines, M.Stactor, etc.), in his own ensembles (Urban Refuse Group, Six Heads), and in numerous collaborations (with members of CCMC, Nihilist Spasm Band, AMM, MSBR, irr.app.(ext.), Nurse With Wound, and many others).

His work in various media has been performed, exhibited and published internationally.

Davison is also the founder of Recordism (described as "an ideospheric mutation of the meme known as Surrealism") and one half of The Recordists (with his partner S.Higgins).

See Recordism for more info.

Rafael González

9/10/2019 15:19:11

This exhibition is great! Have much fun!

William Davison link

9/15/2019 09:59:41

Thanks! I wasn't able to attend, unfortunately, but I have been seeing some photographic documentation. Ladonna Smith did a performance as part of the exhibition. Would have loved to have seen that!

Chris Phinney

9/11/2019 18:05:38

This sounds like reads like a great exhibition, I know all of you will be smiling & having fun. Hey I am smiling :)

9/15/2019 10:00:23

Thanks, Chris!

CIII Goff

9/13/2019 00:33:00

William and/or David -- How long have you been involved with Peculiar Mormyrid ? Can you please tell us a bit about the people (person?) who run(s) the PM and what it's all about? Thanks!

9/15/2019 12:36:21

Thanks for asking, Charles! Unfortunately, I can't tell you much about Peculiar Mormyrid with any degree of certainty. I'm not involved in the magazine at all. David could probably tell you more.

I'm going to say it's a "self-published" magazine, in the sense of being a labor of love by the authors rather than a business or publishing company. However, they don't just publish their own work but draw on an international network of friends and collaborators for their content.

There is a print edition through Lulu and a free PDF version available from their website. I think the main publishers are Steven and Casi Cline and they are based in Atlanta, GA (actually, Cartersville, according to my partner Sherri who has more contact with them). Under the heading "Direction" in the indicia of the current issue are listed the names Jason Abdelhadi, Casi Cline, Steven Cline, Angel Therese Dionne, and Vittoria Lion. I know Jason and Vittoria personally since Tori is here in Toronto and Jason is not far away in Ottawa. I think David Nadeau has also acted as co-editor for previous editions.

On the home page of their website is the following statement:

"We are surrealists. Both elephant and fish: against the established order, our aim is the revolutionary and poetic reclassification of life itself. Through our journal, we publish to find comrades across the world who seek by new and poetic means to expand the bounds of reality, challenge the status quo, and confront the marvellous wherever and however it appears. “Poetry must be made by all, and not by one.” In solidarity with the many groups and individuals that make up the International Surrealist Movement today, we draw upon the results of previous research to insinuate ourselves into the Mad Tea Party as open and reinvigorating participants."

Make of that what you will.

The Recordists (being mostly myself and S.Higgins, aka Sherri) have existed on the periphery of this International Surrealist Movement for almost 35 years. It's a long and complicated history but I'm happy to say most of it has been good. And we continue to be involved, at least occasionally, in Surrealist activities.

CIII

9/16/2019 12:33:51

THANKS MUCH! for the information, William. I have now visited the website, checked out some of the online mags and the blog too. I appreciate you bringing the Peculiar M. to the EC's attention, and I encourage you and David to continue your surreal activities. Some very interesting work in those PM galleries.

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