AC
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | artist/poet |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | For AC poetry is an infinite psychonautical trip; an exploration of the bizarre and the grotesque – yet he describes his work as Realistic. 'Poetry’, he says, ‘is radar’or maybe 'an accident waiting to happen'. Influenced by the dark-side of Romanticism, Decadence and Aestheticism, AC may endorse the iconoclasm of Dada, the 'absolute non-conformism' of Surrealism, the Angst of Existentialism, and the immediacy of Pop. But all these are points of departure, none a destination – we live in a world of tabloid impressionism, open realism and amplified hyper-culture; such is the heroism of our modern life, our Subtopian Materialism. Born near Hampton Court in 1949, A C Evans lived in South London until 1963 when he moved to Essex and co-founded the Neo-Surrealist Convulsionist Group in 1966. He moved back to London in 1973. His drawings, collages, reviews, essays, translations, poetry and stories have appeared in numerous small press magazines in the UK and abroad. The poem sequence Space Opera was made into a digital video (by Michelle Martin/OS2) and shown at the onedotzero3 Festival, at the ICA, London, in May 1999. |
| Interests | Nihilism, Subtopia, Esoterica, Dreams, Symbolist Movement, Aestheticism, Yellow Nineties, Decadence, Cultural Seismology, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Coffee Bars, Cosmology, Tropicalia, Psychedelia, Pop, Secularism, Absurdism, Veronica Lake, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, H P Lovecraft, Art Nouveau, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Baudelaire, Antonin Artaud, Andy Warhol, Simone de Beauvoir, Style Watching, London, Vampires, Train Journeys, Existentialism, Cosmology, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud, Jung, Astrophysics, Weber, Durkheim, Black Humour, Convulsive Beauty, The Mass Media, Baudrillard, Greta Garbo, Poetry, Automatic Drawing, Collages, Austin Osman Spare, Mervyn Peake, Harajuku, Ziggy Stardust, Self Analysis, Nostalgia |
| Favorite Movies | The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Pandora's Box, Fellini-Satyricon, Persona, Barbarella, Apocalypse Now, Alien, Blade Runner, Hellraiser, Crash, Strange Days, Mars Attacks!, Event Horizon, The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes, Barb Wire, Roma, The Fifth Element, Kamikaze Girls, The Vampire Lovers, Metropolis, Mata Hari |
| Favorite Music | Duke Ellington, Caterina Valente, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Elmore James, Etta James, Julie London, Bowie, Siouxsie, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Velvet Underground, Blondie, The Doors, Mazzy Star, Goldfrapp, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Republica, Transvision Vamp, Ute Lemper, Beth Orton, Rite Of Spring, Franz Liszt, Webern, Debussy, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Boogie Woogie |
| Favorite Books | Nova Express, The Secret Agent, Gormenghast Trilogy, Against Nature, She, Nineteen Eightyfour, Neuromancer, The Infernal Desire Machines Of Dr Hoffmann, Last And First Men, Beyond Good And Evil, A Brief History Of Time, Les Fleurs du Mal, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, The Surrealist Manifesto, Being And Nothingness, The Haunted Screen, A Sociology of Globalization, Being And Time, Tales Of Hoffmann |