This book is part of the reading list supplied by Heather Phillipson in her exhibition at BALTIC Heather Phillipson: The Age of Love (19 October 2018 – 31 March 2019)
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds, rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense ; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans.
In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.
With an Introduction by Sheila Heti and an Afterword by Marina Warner
This is the full reading list (NB. Not all of these are available in BALTIC Library)
BOOKS
Butler, Octavia: Blood Child
Cavell, Stanley; Diamond, Cora;, McDowell, John; Hacking, Ian; Wolfe, Cary: Philosophy and Animal Life
Carrington, Leonora: The Debutante & Other Stories
Carrington, Leonora: Jezzamathatics or introduction to the wonderful process of painting (artist's statement)
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring
Derrida, Jacques: The Animal that Therefore I Am
Easterling, Keller: Enduring Innocence
Eshun, Kodwo: More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
Haraway, Donna: Staying with the Trouble
Hildyard, Daisy - Second Body
Hooks, Bell: All About Love
Howard, Len: Birds as Individuals
Myles, Eileen: Afterglow
Pasarello, Elena: Animals Strike Curious Poses
Rich, Adrienne: Arts of the Possible
Ruocco, Joanna: Multi-Course Small Plates, Craft Lofts, Prix Fixe
Steyerl, Hito: The Terror of Total Dasein http://dismagazine.com/blog/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/
Two Fingers & Kirk, James T.: Junglist (Backstreet)
FILMS
Juliette of the Herbs, Dir. Trish Streeten
Heart of a Dog, Dir. Laurie Anderson​ |