Ian Edwards - The Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare

On 1st September we are joined by Ian Edwards PhD for a presentation of his latest book "The Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare" (Atramentous Press).

This free online event will take place via Zoom at 17.30 (BST). To register, please use the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BRYPx-SsS_2ZAc4GdP7BOw

This is the second Volume in Ian's "Being and Nonbeing in Occult Experience" series. "The book is bold, even brazen in its endeavor, which can be thought of as a vision whose text is flesh, a body without organs, and as a path with a series of path marks, a myriad of traces that signify a meeting between the past and future, opening up the possibility for a radical reappropriation of becoming, what can be called Spare’s second (be)coming, as an induction of time, the circularity of eternity that rotates through being, where it is not being that becomes but the becoming of time through being. The book shows how Spare illustrates and inscribes the intertwining of non-being, becoming, and being, with his writings and art portraying it in different forms, which transcend and transgress all ontologies that attempt to describe it as part of a metaphysics of presence. Rather than illustrate the book with Spare’s art, which has been done before with many books on his work, this volume, which offers a “new wine,” does so through “new wineskins,” through the art of Carolyn Hamilton-Giles, which complements the text and portrays in image its chiasmic structure, being a direct, immediate response to Spare, using his art and writings to invoke new forms, which follows Spare in spirit, charting a new way to experience his The Book of Pleasure."