Bardo Matrix started out as a psychedelic lightshow team in Boulder, Colorado in the second half of the 1960s. Of its original members (John Chick, Craig Love, Dana Young and Greg Sharits) Chick and Young followed the hippie trail to Kathmandu in 1969, where the former started his Spirit Catcher bookstore on “Freak Street”. It was from that bookstore that Chick continued Bardo Matrix…
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) are voices from the spirit world that are detected in sound recordings. EVP have formed a field of paranormal research since the 1940s. One of its pioneers was Russian-born Swedish artist Friedrich…
French artist and poet Julien Blaine was born as Christian Poitevin in Rognac in 1942. Already at the age of twenty he published his first poetry magazine Les Carnets de l’Octéor and turned to action poetry with his piece Rep éléphant 306, in which he interviewed a circus elephant, two years earlier than Michael McClure’s famous poetry reading to lions. In 1976 Blaine launched Doc(k)s, an international magazine…
Confessions of a Makeup Artist, published by Moloko Plus in 2024, is the latest collaboration of William Cody Maher and Signe Mähler. Elegantly designed by rag, Wien, the book combines a broad selection of Maher’s poems in English, a choice of photos by Mähler and a postscript (in German) by Martin Jankowski. Poet, author and performer William Cody Maher was born to a working class family in San Francisco in 1950. After having moved to…