NEW PUBLICATION

SPF 666: Gótico Provençal

Edited by Simon Castets, Fabian Gröning. Text by Diana Campbell, Julien Creuzet, Justin D. Edwards, Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez, Ericka Flórez, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos, Inti Guerrero, François Halard, Sky Hopinka, Gary Indiana, Karen Lamassonne, Pablo León de la Barra, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Charles Teyssou, et al.

This volume looks at the Tropical Gothic genre through the lens of Provence’s own dark mythologies. As the birthplace of Nostradamus and a key node in colonial history, Provence, France can be located halfway between the Norse origins of the Gothic and its late 20th-century tropical reinvention. SPF 666: Gótico Provençal echoes the transgressive spirit of Tropical Gothic as a position from which to explore haunting specters such as environmental doom, the ghosts of colonialism and magical thinking, and the cultural responses to these phenomena. With essays and visual contributions from over 20 artists and writers, the book is the . . . .go to book page >>