Heavenly Beings, Earthly Nightmares: Gothic Creatures in a Broken World
I have in front of me the catalogue for the exhibition Heavenly Beings. Neither Human nor Animal, which opened in the summer of 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition itself unfolded in two parts, as if to illustrate how, on the one hand, we idealize animals: celebrating […]
Polish Gothic? Uncanny!
Queer Gothic. Feminist Gothic. Southern Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Gothic Horror, Gothic Romance. Comic Gothic. European Gothic, Irish Gothic, English Gothic. Polish… Romanticism? Polish Gothic: queer? feminist? comic? Uncanny. The last three days of April I spent in Wrocław, to all intends and purposes taking part in a conference at the local university on Miron Białoszewski, […]