Mary Walling Blackburn - Cream Psychosis (e-flux journal)

Mary Walling Blackburn - Cream Psychosis (e-flux journal)For several years, artist Mary Walling Blackburn has given name, shape, and complication to the lumpy lineage from whence she comes. This book of essays, written between the 2010s and the present, moves with near psychedelic precision across American time and its surrounding spaces. It begins near the annals of the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, March 1883. Archeological digs, nuclear plants, and horrors of predation collide. California crumbles through the

’ — Eka Kurniawan

and to do both without compromise

digital technology is no longer a revolutionary phenomenon but a normal part of everyday life

In this book

from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist

one of the first and most important black radical organisations of the 1970s

et à enchaîner les combines foireuses

and long tenure

a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter connect them to other lands

Frau Diamanda is the mistress

Katja Diefenbach and others

Yet in between the markers of optimism and progress