Just a little note to say that I've posted my first three contributions to the collective blog Found Objects. This blog takes it's name from Derrida's concept of 'hauntology' which many music writers have linked to recent developments in British music such as the work of artists on the Ghost Box label and others.
I probably come to hauntology less from the theoretical angle, more from a shared interest in a lot of these influences. With the chance to post on horror films, Delia Derbyshire (pictured above), Arthur Machen and Modernist architecture - I'm enjoying it so far! All of the other contributions are really intersting and I think they all come together to create a really interesting document.
Here's my little miniature archive of my posts - but do check out all the other contributions.
Something of Alice
Misty
Merrie England
A Famous Dress
Voice of the Dolls
Another Found Image
A Found Image
An Alice Still
Theda and the Raven
Peter Pan and Friends
Lionheart
An unusual monument
Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp: Witch's Cradle
Sergeant Dan, The Cremoata Man
Beeton's Treats
Mrs Beeton's Toffee Apples
Frances Hodgkins
The Cheshire Cat and Friends
Hidden Statue
Le Sacre Printemps 1970
Valerie and Broadcast
Alice in 1903
Old Sweden
The Sunflower
A Found Decoration
Far South
Heritage Radio
Take a Trip Back in Time
The Book of the Green Man
Puppet Covers
Riccarton House
The Cottingley Fairy Photographs
A Model Landscape
Through the Glass
Rituals
Penguins Revisited
Strange Stories
Off With His Head
Ancient Sorceries
Larnach Castle
Mirror Mirror
The Legend of Hell House
A Southern Haunt
Dog and Duck
4 comments:
Ooh, this sounds really interesting - woman, I need more free time to check out all of the stuff out there...getting swamped in my tiny-existence-ness lately!
Good on you for contributing and getting involved with new stuff. Very excited for you.
Thanks, Rachel!
I've been really interested in hauntology (though as I say I actually haven't read Derrida on the subject yet - more the recent writers) and the music, films etc that inspired/are inspired by it so I was really excited to receive the invite from Joseph to contribute to this blog.
... and you're one of the most consistently interesting posters. Anyone who puts up anything to do with The Legend Of Hell House has my undying respect. By the way, have you seen The Watcher In The Woods? A 1980 Disney film directed by the very same fellow. Very good, very eerie :-)
Thanks Joe! I do try. I just tend to post things that interest me which I think fit in with the general aesthetic and idea of the blog.
I haven't seen The Watcher in the Woods, sounds very interesting. Creepy and Disney sounds like a good combination :)
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