References / Participant H.N.

Listed bellow are some of the references brought by the participant N.H. in the dynamics of collecting antenarratives / Instants of Metamorphosis version 01.
December 2010

The first reference was the book Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror), by Comte de Lautréamont:

Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)
a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists (Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, etc.) during the early 1900s cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own works and Les Chants de Maldoror, and its protagonist Maldoror, have continued to fascinate people since its publication.

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chants_de_Maldoror


Here an Italian band of Death Rock named "Chants of Maldoror" I found when looking for the book via Google search engine:




The second reference was the experimental/horror film Begotten, 1991 , directed and written by E. Elias Merhige:

The film heavily deals with religion and the biblical story of the Creation. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but rather uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale. It also has no music, instead, the movie is accompanied by the sounds of crickets, and occasionally other sound effects such as grunting and thrashing.
The film was shot on black and white reversal film, and then every frame was rephotographed for the look that is seen. The only colors are black and white. There are no half-tones. This is intended to add to the eerie atmosphere of the movie, as sometimes the viewer cannot always exactly make out what it is being shown, but can still infer a sense of suffering. The look of the film is described in the trailer as "a Rorschach test for the eye". Merhige said that for each minute of original film, it took up to 10 hours to rephotograph it for the look desired.

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begotten




IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101420/

The participant was still talking about his interest in Shock art...
wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_art

Two weeks after his experience in the isntallation Instants of Metamorphosis v.01, the participant sent the book "Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror), by Comte de Lautréamont (a translation to Portuguese) to Clarissa Ribeiro via Renata La Rocca.


Lautréamont, Conde de. Os Cantos de Maldoror. Tradução de Claudio Willer. São Paulo: Vertente Editora, 1970. (pseudônimo do poeta francês de origem uruguaia Isidore Ducasse)







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