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I was so happily overwhelmed by the Natalie Frank show of warped fairy tale reinterpretations that I neglected to cover the other exhibition up at the Drawing Center that I swooned over as well. That would be Rachel Goodyear's "Restless Guests," a (literally) subterranean show of her coolly transgressive drawings and animations of devils, veiled dames, and other charmingly disturbing figures. Goodyear is a master of space and scale, packing dense, dark scenes in the middle of vast fields of white. Taking a page out of the Surrealists' book, her characters often have obscured faces, and are engaged in ambiguous moments that seem erotic and supernatural at once. I particularly love this drawing above which I came across on her site. It plays with so many tropes that are intriguing to me: ritual, ectoplasm, power-shifts, gender. I'd love to see it in person. Other works of hers are still viewable at the Drawing Center through March 1, 2016, and I highly recommend you give them a visit.
Romeyn de Hooghe, Hieroglyphica — Symbols of Ancient People 1735
Stephen Romano is at it again, this time curating a show for the Morbid Anatomy Museum that celebrates visionary and hallucinogenic art. "OPUS HYPNAGOGIA: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular" draws from the wells of both historical and contemporary artists, all of whom sought to translate their divine or sublime experiences into a pictorial language. The show opens tomorrow night in tandem with the museum's one year anniversary party, and will be up through October 15th. Artists involved include Phantasmaphile favorites William Mortensen, Rithika Merchant, El Gato Chimney, Lori Field, Martin Wittfooth, and Hunter Stabler. Full details:
The Morbid Anatomy Museum and Stephen Romano are excited to announce a curated exhibition opening July 18 in recognition of the museum's first year anniversary.
This milestone will be celebrated with an all day "Festival of Arcane Knowledge" followed by a Devil's masquerade party. The exhibition will be comprised of a blend of historical, "Outsider", and Visionary art, as well as contemporary works, vintage books, vernacular photography, folk sculpture, spirit photography, and many surprises. As with previous exhibitions curated by Stephen Romano, the design and content of the exhibition will be in constant dynamic motion throughout the course of the exhibition, adding, taking away, reflecting the synergistic relationship the curator has with the collection.
The exhibition, entitled "OPUS HYPNAGOGIA: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular", is composed of works from Stephen Romano's esoteric personal collection, as well as works sampled from the collections of associates and the inclusion of some of the most highly respected and recognized contemporary artists of our time including Kris Kuksi, Kymia Nawabi, Martin Wittfooth, El Gato Chimney, Rithika Merchant, Caitlin McCormack, Jel Ena, Ellen Stagg, Pulu Zhao, Lori Field, Rene Allain, David Molesky, Erna Kd, Matthew Dutton, Lizz Lopez, Joseph McVetty, Barry William Hale and Hunter Stabler.
The exhibition examines the place the visionary occupies as the "HYPNAGOGIA", defined as the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, when mental phenomena such as lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis occur. This "threshold consciousness" phase is in this exhibition linked with the visionary artist's creative process which empowers the artist with shamanic powers. The works presented are implied to have been created while the artist was in a similar state of heighten awareness through their own pursuit of creative fulfillment.
Some of the exhibition's highlights will include works by America's earliest Visionary artist Charles Dellschau (1830 - 1923) whose illustrated flying machine according to the late renowned art writer Thomas McEvilley "seem to foretell an ascent to heaven for which the artist's soul has opened itself, partly through the activity of making his art. " Dellschau has been called "an outsider art master in the same league as Adolph Wölfli, Henry Darger and Martin Ramirez" (Raw Vision magazine summer 2013).
Also included will be the notorious William Mortensen (1897 - 1965) masterpiece series of photographs "A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft" (illustrated at the top) from 1926. Several of these works have been widely reproduced in publications such as The Guardian, LA Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Huffington Post among many others, and are considered to be quintessential examples of the artist's work. This exhibition will be only the third time this series is assembled for public view.
One of the gems of the exhibition will be a very rare copy of the virtually unobtainable master piece of occult grimoire: "Doktor Johannes Faust's Magia naturalis." Published 1849. The book will be open at select pages throughout the course of the exhibition. This grimoire is also known as "Dr. Johannes Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell".
The exhibition will also feature for the first time ever a selection of works by American visionary artist A. Fiorello (dates unknown), of whom we know very little except that he apparently lived in New York c. 1960 - 1980, and whose works were found in a New York antique shop. Fiorello produced painted plaster reliefs which depict some of the most visceral imagery in the cannon of Visionary art.
An expansive selection of the works of renowned "outsider" William Blayney (1918 - 1985) will be on view, some of which have never before been seen. Blayney was a self ordained Baptist minister who traveled around in his camper and gave sermons in the parking lots of shopping malls. The surviving paintings, which have been exhibited in several prominent American and European museums such as the Philadelphia Museum, The Newark Museum and the Museum of American Folk Art were used as his visual teaching aids.
The exhibition will also include a selection of esoteric ephemera such as a large banner from c. 1900 from the International Association of Rebekah Assemblies, a female auxiliary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a selection of spirit photos dating from the mid 1800s, original books and plates from Jacob Bohme from the mid 1600s, an original copy of the book "Lectiones Memorabiles" from 1671, an "Anima Sola", and a depiction of souls in purgatory popular in Latin American culture among many other surprises.
A wide-ranging exhibition of Brion Gysin's works, called "Unseen Collaborator," opened last week at London's October Gallery. It features many of his magic square prints, calligraphic experimentations, and Moroccan paintings, and offers a rare glimpse into the oeuvre of this consciousness-bending renaissance man who was the alleged inventor of the "cut-up," and one of Burrough's primary art allies. Do check it out if you can:
October Gallery, London is pleased to present Unseen Collaborator, a solo exhibition of works by the artist Brion Gysin. The exhibition will feature several unseen paintings 1950-1985, including his Sahara phase, Marrakech crowd scenes, permutations and cutups, calligraphy and grid pieces, an architectural photograph, and a Dreamachine. Neo-calligrapher, master of line, multimedia revolutionary and cultural historian, Gysin's experiences in New York, Tangier, Paris and London influenced his seminal artistic productions. William S. Burroughs called Gysin, 'the only man I truly respect'.
Also included are a rarely-shown film of a solo performance, Les Diables de Brion, (Brion's Devils) by Francoise Janicot; exhibition soundscape produced by Bill Laswell with the Master Musicians of Jajouka; collaborative media with William S. Burroughs and Anthony Balch; sound poetry; and music with jazzman Steve Lacy.
Brion Gysin, (1916 – 1986) was born in Taplow, England and in 1934 went to study at the Sorbonne, Paris. Gysin's first exhibition was in Paris in 1935, a group show of Surrealist drawings with Picasso, Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Man Ray and others. His name is in the catalogue but his work was taken down during the opening by Paul Eluard at the order of André Breton, presumably for 'deviationism' and lese majestie towards Breton. In 1939, he had a one man show at the same gallery and left that year for New York, where he worked on Broadway, in shipyards, and met Paul Bowles, who invited him to Tangier. His journey to the Algerian Sahara influenced his work greatly. Gysin was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris.
Unseen Collaborator refers to the concept Gysin developed with Burroughs, Third Mind. In an intense collaboration, a third entity appears, the 'mind' of the collaboration itself- almost like progeny. Gysin worked with collaborators to deconstruct assumptions of perception. Alfred Korzybski, the inventor of general semantics, called humanity the 'time-binding' animal. Gysin and Burroughs worked to make visible the unseen arrow of time that biology presents to us, which, post-Einstein, they considered to be illusion; Human perception- temporal truths, fixations and obsessions, play, jokes, ambiguous pronouncements, inspirational sparks, alternate histories- all were the fuel for Gysin's inventions.
Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on his knowledge of Japanese and Arabic scripts. A radical cultural visionary, visual artist, writer and performer, Gysin introduced his close friend, writer William S. Burroughs, to the techniques of "cut-ups" and "permutation". Together, they experimented in sound and image, using collage, tape recorder, light-painting, writing and film. They co-authored Third Mind,the term they used for such creative collaboration. Their work has had a pervasive influence in the arts and on underground and popular culture, affecting figures such as David Bowie, Patti Smith, Bill Laswell, Keith Haring, Michael Stipe, and Genesis P. Orridge.
October Gallery was the first in the UK to show Gysin's work with a solo exhibition in 1981, and his magnum opus, Calligraffiti of Fire, in 2008. Brion Gysin's first US retrospective exhibition was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in June 2010.
Max Razdow (left); Jesse Bransford (right)
Exciting news for us New Yorkers. Jesse Bransford and Max Razdow have a show opening at IDIO Gallery this Saturday which will feature work from their Icelandic odyssey full of Norse magic, sigils, and co-dreaming. "The Veil of Dreams" will be up through August 11th, and there will be coincident events throughout, including an evening of discussion on July 14th with the artists and curator, and moderated by yours truly. Full show details and panel details both below:
Jesse Bransford & Max Razdow
July 14th - August 11th, 2015
IDIO Gallery
Please join us at IDIO Gallery to explore the obscure reality of dreams with the opening of The Veil of Dreams, a collaborative multi-media venture by Max Razdow and Jesse Bransford, curated by Lynn Maliszewski. Coming together for over a year, the project is loosely based on Norse mythology and folklore that manifested in the artists' dreams. After employing unique rituals and recording the results in a journal, each artist extracted narratives and images for drawings, photographs, and a joint site-specific installation. The project merges ancient Norse guidance from the Poetic Eddas with subjective experience, and mystical superstition with observation.
SAT//July 11th// OPENING: 6-9PM
TUES//July 14th//PANEL with Pam Grossman (Phantasmaphile), Lynn Maliszewski (curator) and the artists
FRI//July24//MUSIC//PERFORMANCE by The Jaguar Society (Jesse Bransford and Jason Martin of Power Animal Systems) + special guests
GALLERY HOURS//Thurs-Sun 12-6//Through August 11th
A unique ZINE in an edition of 50 will also be produced to accompany the exhibition. It contains a brief introduction to the project, excerpts from each artist's respective journal, and a sampling of card-sized drawings that will be on display in full at IDIO. There will also be TEN CATALOGUES in the form of unabridged facsimiles of the dream journals for sale at the gallery. Perfect-bound and enveloped in hand-lettered cloth covers, they are a meaningful keepsake of the ulterior dimension pierced by the artists.
Panel with the artists, curator, & Pam Grossman
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Between April and October 2014 artists Jesse Bransford and Max Razdow worked on 'The Veil of Dreams,' an art project involving dream synchronicities, Seidr shamanistic practices, and an initiatory journey to notoriously magical sites in Iceland. For this panel, the artists will discuss the spirits they met and created, the documentation that remains a portent of their otherworldly interactions, and the experience of melting time and space. Curator Lynn Maliszewski will be on hand to add to the discussion, imparting observations from the project's current installation at IDIO. Moderated by Pam Grossman, the discussion will cover topics of temporality, place, myth, dream, and magic's vital importance to the artists' ideas of creativity and art making.
IDIO Gallery, 976 Grand St., Studio D, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Australian painter Adam Lee makes messes, in the most beautiful sense of the word. His loose, splashy works are magical muddles of color that belie a mastery in composition. There is something psychedelic and liminal about the figures he paints. They seem like dreamtime sentinels.
Londoners can see his work alongside that of Alison Blickle, Francis Bacon, and more in the "Fantasy of Representation" show opening at BEERS gallery at the end of this month. Looks fantastic.
Cassandra Oswald and Briana Saussy
I have been loving the Daily Blessings series that "sacro-magical" writer and teacher Briana Saussy has been creating with illustrator, Cassandra Oswald. Pure and piercing, they celebrate the immaterial things that make life meaningful, and the white-on-black drawings seem to almost glow in the dark.
Here's wishing you all a weekend of rapture and freedom, no matter what country you call home.
Roseanne Croucher "Whispers" 2015
The season of summer magicks is upon us. I confess I often feel a bit out of sorts in July, longing for warm hibernation but still having to work hard. Wrestling with melancholy despite the uplifting promise of the sun. I've found that spending time with Roseanne Croucher's impeccable and eerie series of flame spirits on water is a perfect way to balance out one's own internal dichotomies. It reminds me to hold space for both energies, and to be contemplative within the crashing.
Lisa Breznak "Dances for Waxing and Waning"
My appetite for golden art remains unabated. Lisa Breznak creates totemic sculptures covered in gold leaf that look equal parts Tuareg and eldritch. I don't have a sense of scale for these, but I like to envision myself wielding one like a solar scepter. Hopefully I can get up to the Seligmann Center to see the three-person show that Breznak's work is part of right now:
By Chance: New Works by Lisa Breznak, Mimi Czajka Graminski & RIva Weinstein
Seligmann Center
6/20/2015 - 8/16/2015
Seligmann's Studio, the Robert Fagan Art Library, and the Seligmann Grounds
23-26 White Oak Drive
Chester, NY 10918
United States
Admission: Free
By Chance: A Meeting of Minds, Material and Meaning features new works by regional artists Lisa Breznak, Mimi Czajka Graminski and Riva Weinstein. This multimedia exhibition includes sculpture, fiber, two-dimensional and ephemeral works drawn from nature. The exhibition will be presented in Kurt Seligmann's Studio, the Robert Fagan Art Library (located on the second level of the Seligmann home) and throughout the Seligmann Center grounds.
Image magus Jesse Bransford will be speaking at Catland next Wednesday, and you won't want to miss it. He'll be sharing the magick and methodology that went into his epic Icelandic dream project, and offering other insights into his travels, both physical and inward:
Jesse Bransford, Recent Work: Dreams, Signs and the Paradox of Language
True confession: it's rare that I connect with music in the ambient/synth sphere, as too often I'm left a bit bored by its repetition or chilled by its mechanics. But when I do fall for some, I fall hard, and it feels like it syncs up perfectly with the thrum of my own bloodstream. Such is the case with Lykanthea's EP, Migration. Melodic and trance-inducing, it has enough texture and sonic shimmer to keep me fully engaged. In fact, I haven't been able to stop listening to it for the last two days. I admit I also love the album's conceit, as it follows the story of the goddess Inanna's descent into the underworld, and draws heavily from Diane Wolkstein's groundbreaking work on that myth.
You can download all of Lykanthea's tracks here, and view her transporting videos here.
I'll admit it was the Remedios Varo painting on the front that initially attracted me to Thus Were Their Faces, NYRB Classics' new collection of short stories by Argentine fabulist writer, Silvina Ocampo. And am I ever glad I judged this book by its cover! It is truly one of the most marvelous things I've read in a long while, and Ocampo has become a literary heroine of mine.
These 42 stories are anthologized from her writings between 1937 and 1988, and each is a remarkable study in specificity and imaginal thinking. The protagonists of her tales are often children or adolescents or the very elderly wrestling with big questions about love, religion, and death. Magical goings-on are frequent, though are grounded in a world (usually Buenos Aires) that feels steely-eyed and true. There are birthday parties, courtships, marriages, friendships, and crimes, each embroidered by elements of clairvoyance or supernatural interactions that heighten the drama, albeit with a deliciously slow build.
My three favorite stories appear in succession, all originally published in 1959 as part of her collection, "The Fury." "Azabache" is a tale about a man who marries his equine-obsessed servant, Aurelia, whose fate is bound inextricably with that of her beloved horse. In "The Velvet Dress," a tailor creates a black, dragon-sequined dress for a client, and they both have to reconcile its beauty with its heaviness and dark powers that threaten to overwhelm them. And in perhaps my very favorite story, "Leopoldina's Dreams," two sisters try to trick their crone grandmother into conjuring jewels and gold as she sleeps, rather than the usual far more humble feathers and stones that tend to appear upon her waking. Ocampo's description of Leopoldina alone made me swoon:
"In the kitchen, sitting on a high-backed wicker chair, Leopoldina was smoking. She was so old that she looked like a scribble; you couldn't see her eyes or her mouth. She smelled like earth, grass, dry leaves: not like a person. She announced storms and bad weather like a barometer; even before I did she could smell the mountain lion coming down from the hills to eat the young goats or twist the necks of the colts. Despite not having left the house for thirty years, she knew, as birds know, where there were ripe nuts, figs, and peaches, in what valley, beside which stream. Even the crispin bird, with its sad song, shy as a fox, came down one day to eat bread crumbs dipped in milk out of her hands, surely believing that she was a bush."
Here's another favorite section, from her story, "Autobiography of Irene," about a melancholic young seer who falls in love for the first time:
"A silence of cloisters and roses was in our hearts. No one could guess the mystery that linked us. Not even those colored pencils or the jujube candies or the flowers he bestowed on me gave us away. He would write my name on the trunks of trees with his penknife, and when he was being punished, he would write it with chalk on the wall."
I love the clarity of her writing with its short sentences and vivid images. Naturally, some credit must go to the translator, Daniel Balderston. But I appreciate that Ocampo's voice is lush without being flowery, and unapologetically straightforward as it enthralls. Each line shines like a blade.
It's no wonder she had a background in painting, having studied with de Chirico and Leger in Paris, as she is a master picture painter in her writing. But she felt she had far more freedom expressing herself in words, as she states in her author's introduction also included in this collection. Her life was filled with - some might say eclipsed by - other luminaries. She was married to Bioy Casares, author of cult favorite, The Invention of Morel. And they were both dear friends and collaborators with Borges, whose preface to one of her books is republished at the beginning of "Thus Were Their Faces" as well. As he wrote,
"It is strange that it should be I, for whom telling a story is the attempt to capture only its essential elements, who should present to readers a work as wise, as changeable, as complex, and at the same time as simple as this collection. I thank the gods for this happy fate."
I share his sentiment, and I hope that you, too, will discover Ocampo's exquisite storycraft for yourself.
I am wild about Cripsta's graphic, gem-colored takes on Greco-Egyptian deities. It always excites me to see modern interpretations of ancient motifs that feel current. I'm all for old-fashioned, but I think it's important to blow the dust off, too, and keep magic relevant and vital. These segmented pagan pictures with their flat pigments and bold icons really ring my bell.
Two sweet beasts for you on a Friday, courtesy of sculptor Crystal Morey. My love for these shamanic co-conspirators knows no bounds.
(Hat tip, Teresa.)
The word "diaphanous" was invented to describe Johanna Warren's music it seems. Her sweet soprano vocals lilt and loop between acoustic guitar finger picking that's fine as filigree. But there is a rootedness to her songs as well, steeped in pagan imagery and examining the wide swath of human experience from death to love to attending really awkward parties. I imagine this comparison gets tiresome, but I'd be remiss if I didn't say she reminded me of Clouds-era Joni Mitchell due to their darkly swirling melodies and mythopoeic subject matter.
Warren has a new album out called nūmūn, and it's perfect for woodland wanderings, summer storms, or midnight crystal scrying. As she puts it:
This album is dedicated to The Moon: by honoring her phases, I am restoring balance to my body and spirit; and to the divine feminine: by collectively cultivating her, may we restore balance to our world.
So shall it be.
She's also released a beautiful (and slightly NSFW) video for the track "True Colors," which shows her sky-clad and engaging in initiatory ritual, and art directed by none other than NYC magician Damon Stang.
nūmūn can be streamed over at Bandcamp, you can order hard-copies of the album as well as a hand-bound and hand-printed lyric book there as well. Lovely stuff.
Heidi Yardley "Transfigured" 2014
I'm fascinated by the concept of veils, both literal and figurative. The "veil between worlds," bridal veils, curtains, shrouds, and so on, act as gauzy demarcations between spaces, liminal or otherwise, and they reveal and obscure in equal measure. They've been very much on my mind of late, having finally viewed the sumptuous film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which features a hijab-wearing female vampire in the fictional Bad City, Iran. But I digress.
Heidi Yardley's work traffics in these veiled tropes, particularly her Unfamiliar series, so it's no wonder I find it irresistible. I'm entranced by the luxe-noire atmosphere she conjures using pin-up style portraiture with segmented, partially concealed faces. They're alluring in their unknowability, and they make me wonder and quake in equal measure.
(Thank you to the otherworldly S. Elizabeth for the tip-off!)
Rithika Merchant
If you're in Edinburgh, well, you're lucky enough as it is. But next week your luck will have doubled, because you'll have the opportunity to see the group show, "Not Man the Less, But Nature More," opening at Summerhall on June 4th. The show celebrates the overlap of speculation, spirit, and the natural world, and is curated by Michela D'Acquisto and Holly Knox Yeoman. The artists included therein are an excellent and eclectic bunch, and I wish I could be there myself see their works in dialog with one another. Full details:
Not Man the Less, But Nature More
11:00 - 18:00
Cendrine Rovini, El Gato Chimney, Erika Nordqvist, Esther Pearl Watson, Fred Stonehouse, Rithika Merchant, Solange Knopf and Zeki Agacan have an intimate relationship with nature, creating on impetus, uninfluenced by academic training or culture.
The artists reproduce the surroundings they inhabit, animating them with the people, creatures and spirits that belong to their personal mythologies. The artworks encased and framed by the Phenotype Genotype Gallery, an environment at the intersection between laboratory and Wunderkammer, reminds us of the anthropological observations which have been gathered, appreciated and scrutinized since the Middle Ages.
This exhibition focuses on the dichotomy of exploring others' worlds, revealing what the artists have always had around them, but what perhaps we have never seen.
Curated by Michela D'Acquisto and Holly Knox Yeoman.
With special thanks to Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, USA and Stephen Romano Gallery, New York, USA.
Natalie Frank "All Fur III" 2011-2014
Natalie Frank reinterprets fairy tales using gouache, chalk pastels, and her own wonderfully warped lens. Like Paula Rego, Cindy Sherman, and Kiki Smith before her, she manages to revisit these stories in a way that feels of the now, charged with sexual politics, violence, and inquiries into identity. This week, I had the great pleasure of seeing her show, "Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm" which is currently up at The Drawing Center. I was dazzled by her glowing Fauvist palette and the masterful way in which she balances the grotesquerie and raw magic of the original Grimm tales. There is something menacing about her works, with their frenzied lines, manic patterns, and watchful eyeballs embellished throughout. But there is also a bent joyfulness here, and I found myself laughing out loud at several of the pieces - a rare treat in the often self-serious artlandia.
Don't miss this one. And while you're there, be sure to page through (or if you're able, purchase), the stunner of a book that coincides with the show, which includes the texts of the stories themselves, alongside Frank's tremendous illustrations.
Full details:
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm
April 10th - June 28th
Since completing her M.F.A. at Columbia University in 2006, Natalie Frank has been making a name for herself with energetic, visceral paintings that boldly embrace the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. A virtuoso painter and draftswoman, Frank is unique among her peers in her willingness to employ the traditional mediums of painting and drawing in the service of taboo themes. Focusing on the dialogue between flesh and spirit, the artist explores, in her own words, the parallel poles of "longing and desire but also disgust and fascination" that constitute humanity.
At The Drawing Center, Frank applies her visual and psychological acumen to that most evocative and misunderstood of literary forms, the fairytale—specifically the original, unsanitized stories transcribed by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm between 1812 and 1857. Only a few contemporary artists have worked within the fairytale genre; fewer still have systematically interrogated the complexity of these tales and the way in which they address social and sexual mores that continue to have relevance today. Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm presents twenty-five drawings out of a total of seventy-five that Frank completed over a period of three-and-a-half years between 2011 and 2014. The drawings are made in gouache and chalk pastel—the first time that Frank has worked exclusively in this medium—producing both gritty and luminous surface effects. Engaging the intersection between body and mind, reality and fiction, the series can be seen as a contemporary feminist reimagining of a symbolist legacy.
Curated by Claire Gilman, Senior Curator.
Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm is made possible by the support of The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation, Merrill Mahan, Stephanie Ingrassia, Sarah Peter, Kim Manocherian, Irwin and MaryAnn Gold, and Liz Parks.
Special thanks to Rhona Hoffman Gallery and ACME.
Micki Pellerano "The Void" 2015
I've been meaning to post about Micki Pellerano for a very long time, so I'm happy that this interview with him in VICE reminded me to do so. Pellerano creates epic black and white drawings that aim to render occult forces visible. His fascinations often lie in the darker side of the fold, via imagery that explores suffering, chaos, and the sublime. But the beauty and contemplation of these graphite works keeps them from feeling hopeless or punishing. Rather, Pellerano insists that shadows are to be surrendered to at times, and that there is holy wisdom to be found in doing so.
Pellerano's show, "Celestial Love" is up now at American Medium through June 6th. Full details:
Elijah Burgher "Bachelor with 'demons' (Sleezy)" 2015
I've written about Elijah Burgher's work several times over, and with good reason: he is one of the finest artists working today, esoteric or otherwise. His drawings have a rare sensitivity to them, and his juxtaposition of sigils and portraiture speak volumes about the place for ritual in the contemporary world, while honoring the magickal tension (and interrelation) between the immaterial and the bodied experience.
Burgher has a new show called "Bachelors" opening on May 26th at Zieher Smith & Horton, and up through June 20th. Details:
The gallery is pleased to present the New York solo debut of Chicago-based artist Elijah Burgher. The exhibition entitled Bachelors features a series of seven colored pencil portraits, several large-scale paintings on drop cloths, and a group of unique pressure prints. An essay entitled Gay Death Cult by Allan Doyle will accompany the exhibition.
Continuing his exploration of the intersections between desire, fantasy, and daily life, the artist employs ideas from magick and the occult to address sexuality, sub-cultural formation, and the history of abstraction. A central idea in Burgher's work is that of a "sigil" – an emblem to which magical power is imputed. By recombining the letters of a written wish into a new symbol, Burgher's pictures, or sigils, literally encode desire while embodying it abstractly through shape, color, and composition. The resulting abstract forms combine solar, anal, mechanical and sexual elements in constellations or diagrams that serve as ritual artifacts, devotional tools, and Gnostic riddles.
This most recent series, relating to an imaginary cult alternately called Bachelors of the Dawn (BotD) and Children of the Black Sun (CotBS), focuses on portraits of the cult members and the symbols used by the cult that relate esoterically to their philosophy or world-view. The artist states; "The figure of the bachelor is crucial, embodying a refusal to marry and repeat the structures of the nuclear family and the patterns of personhood it perpetuates.
As Doyle observes: Burgher's nudes exhibit a rigidity that seems equal parts neoclassical statue and rigor mortis. Standing or lying in hermetic spaces lit by an even, sourceless fluorescence, they do nothing. Their lack of affect heightens their physical presence. With their cool flesh, stiff comportment, and slightly averted gazes, the Bachelors appear as purely external beings, devoid of interiority. They withhold nothing. Made available to our gaze, they signal an awareness of the viewer's presence without capitulating their self-possession. What are we to make of them? Like the sigils that surround them, the Bachelors frustrate the viewer's interpretive instincts. Despite their display of skin, they resist appropriation for erotic fantasy.
Elijah Burgher (b. 1978, Kingston, NY) lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. He was recently a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Fire Island Artist Residency. The artist was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial (selected by Anthony Elms), the 2014 Gwangju Biennial (as part of AA Bronson's "House of Shame"), The Nothing That Is at the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, North Carolina, and The Temptation of AA Bronson at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, among others. His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Art in America, ArtReview, Artforum.com and was included in VITAMIN D2, the hardcover survey of contemporary drawing. The artist is also represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
This is one of two prints by Dina Bursztyn that hang in our home, and I treasure them both. Bursztyn is a sculptor, painter, poet, and print maker who works out of her shop, Open Studio, in the village of Catskill, NY. Her pieces seem to have a kinship with my favorite female surrealists, due to their pagan leanings, and their profound mixture of wonder and pathos. She has a new body of work called Forest Voodoo that will be featured on the Active Member Wall of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum through June 7th, so do give it a visit if you are in town.
Kurt Seligmann "L'Alchemie de la peinture" 1955
A blockbuster Kurt Seligmann show has just opened at SF's Weinstein Gallery, and I'm fighting the urge to hop on a plane just to see it. "Kurt Seligmann: First Message from the Spirit World of the Object" is, according to ArtNews, the first major US retrospective of Seligmann's work in 55 years. It includes Seligmann's legendary 6-foot-tall 1959 triptych composed of paintings Effervescent (Corn Spirit), Envelopment (Mountain Spirit), and The Gathering (Sphinx and Minotaur), among 50 other paintings and etchings. The show will be up through June 13th, but those who, like me, live too far to be there, can enjoy the e-catalog here.
I must say, between this, Cornell's recent Seligmann-heavy Surrealism and Magic show, and the emergence of the Seligmann Center in Sugarloaf, NY, it is uplifting to see this exquisite art magus finally begin to get his due.
Mondays are hard. Sometimes they make you just want to put on a mask, curl up, and camouflage yourself in the wilderness while birds deliver you mail. And then you realize the birds are just camouflaged people, too. Andrea Wan knows what I mean. Can't get enough of her twisted whimsy watercolors.
Alvin Lustig "Incantation" textile 1947
Alvin Lustig was a mid-century graphic designer, perhaps most noted for his book jacket designs. When he grew up, he was obsessed with magic shows, and his predilections for the wondrous showed up in his textile designs like the one above. He was also friends with Maya Deren, who shot some interiors he designed, and also featured him in her short film, At Land. I'm crazy about these portraits of him that she did as well:
(Hat tip to Lynda Barry & Lustig House).
Alison Blickle "Uncrossing" 2015
We're back from Mexico City, heads reeling, hearts distended with beauty. Lots of pictures to share and tales to regale you with, not to mention heaps of correspondence and projects to catch up on. All for another time soon. For now, I'm focusing on the fact that there's new work by Alison Blickle to bask in - the third part of her "History of Magic" series which I've featured here and here. This latest show opened at Kravets/Wheby last month, and is up now through May 23rd. Go see these tableaux of entranced women and their pattern-rich rituals in person if you can:
The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of History of Magic Part III…Uncrossing, by Alison Blickle, on April 23rd, 2015 with a reception for the artist 6:00- 8:00 pm. The show will run through May 23rd.
Myths and stories have a timeless quality where the details change, but the essence remains the same. The third and final act of Alison Blickle's self-created allegorical tale is no different. History of Magic, Part III…Uncrossing brings a sense of closure to the epic journey of the hermit-turned-heroine depicted in the previous two installments of Blickle's History of Magic series. Though, the previous exhibitions provide a greater context for the evolution of said story, the implicit narrative presented within this new body of work functions on its own merits.
There is a rigid choreography to the figures in Blickle's paintings reminiscent of theatrical scenarios performed on the stages of ancient Greece or Rome. Carefully constructed scenes employ aesthetic elements from a variety of historical sources, but this stylistic eclecticism is not random or pointlessly showy. Blickle's influences are seamlessly merged with a delicate sophistication that allows for the works to exist in a timeless interstitial gap of the psyche. The exhibition is multi-faceted, but singular in its ultimate goal. Ceramic objects are coupled with paintings as a means of providing tangible "evidence" for the ritualistic moments being depicted in the scenes of Uncrossing. Akin to sacred objects placed in front of an altar, these sculptural works function as a physical connection to the personal growth experienced by the protagonist throughout this series.
Blickle's approach to art making triumphs hybrid elements of history while simultaneously creating a visual lexicon that is very much her own. Pattern, adornment, and the figure remain consistent throughout the works, but clever application and placement of these components allow these repeated mechanisms to flourish in a variety of ways. Allegorical tales are generally metaphors for the human condition, and the work presented in Uncrossing addresses this experience in a truly dynamic fashion.
Alison Blickle currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. There is a feature article about her work in the March, 2015 issue of Juxtapose Magazine.
Greetings from Mexico City! I've been longing to visit this city ever since I first learned that it was the home of two of my matron saints, Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, so I'm grateful to finally have the opportunity to do so. I'll post a round-up at the end of the trip, but first, a happy synchronicity. It turns out that Phantasmaphile favorite, Christin Couture, has a show opening here this very weekend as part of a gallery walk. The show is called Volcanix, and features drawings that explore different metaphoric aspects of volcanism, and the Popocateptl volcano specifically. I can't wait to see it, and to hopefully meet the artist as well. Looks like a stunner.
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This review is from: British Generals in Blair's Wars (Military Strategy and Operational Art) (Paperback)
Graeme Lamb's paper: `On Generals and Generalship.'
Had Graeme not been supplied with a book of quotations this paper would not have amounted to much. Nor do they, for the most part, support a thesis. If this is what is learned at Sandhurst and Camberley, the job is not well done. There is little structure to this thinking and not much originality: nothing we would not see for ourselves. I do not think that the task of the general is well explained. Even, that the problems in the field which should have been addressed at the time, have not been. Of that more later.
Graeme begins his paper with a quote from Paddy Mayne, SAS [4 DSO's], about the value of `true friendship.' G does not believe that attitude exists now. What has this to do with the subject? Not much. The paper is in a book about the views of generals who took part in Blair's wars with the title above. The quote may be a by product of that title but it is no fundamental.
Declaring himself to be a Cadmian type general: attritional, with suitably many casualties, G instantly puts himself behind generals (like Monty) who were very sparing with their men's lives and cared for them to the nth degree. `Foul-mouthed, intolerant and dangerously indifferent' is how G describes himself. Not good: nothing about it is good: it does not even fit the Cadmian label. That he views most of his fellow generals listed as mostly fair [and not average, good or excellent] and some dangerous to associate with is not good either. He is entitled to that opinion but how it might affect relationships with other generals in the field thereafter was not considered: it should have been [G had not then retired] . Monty's problem precisely. He really was a great general, in my view: great insight. Forget his vainglory and effect on lesser generals. He had it all and knew it; they did not have it and envied it.
That G should deny he is ambitious when he has reached his exalted rank is delusional. Of course he is ambitious, could not have got there otherwise. That he does `not give a damn to (sic) those who think badly' of him, is not a wise confession and even an unwise attitude, even if concealed: another delusion. Every general should care when others think badly of him: it might matter in many situations in the future. Where the view exists it should be changed, if possible. Only common sense.
For Graeme the key to generalship are the 3 C's: Character, Competence and Communication.
I disagree. Instead, I favour Insight, Preparation and Inspiration. [Of course many other things are necessary like resolution, will etc but these are common to many]
You can be competent without ever seeing the best solution, the original one that solves the problem, still less harbour a pervasive attitude of forever seeking a master-stroke in every situation. if you do this, you will find them some of the time; if not, you never will. You will be merely competent. What distinguishes the great general, I suggest, is his ability to see the best answer to the problem, to get it right. Preparation and Inspiration will ensure that the execution, too, is right.
G sees his task as a manipulator who gets people to do what they ordinarily would not do. That suggests a deviousness that is unnecessary. His men do not want to think they have been manipulated. Better to think of an inspirer who lights a divine fire in his troops. They want to do battle, they want to win; they have the resolve to give their all for the common cause.
To label `the blast of war' quote in Henry V as `communication' is an understatement. It goes far beyond that. `And men in England now abed will think themselves accursed they were not here..' Is that `communication'? No it is inspiration. It is the fuel that makes the troops run at the enemy blazing with energy and fight.
According to G (p147) we `operate in a Hobbesian world: no arts, no letters. no society; and worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death.' Hobbes would not have recognised this world as his. Of course there were letters in it: he was a writer, a practitioner, a man of letters. He knew Ben Jonson and Bacon@. He knew Classics, translated Homer* taught mathematics [which is full of letters, most of them Greek!] Of course his Leviathan is mostly about society: how it comes to be. That he may have lived in fear of death is hardly unexpected: everybody did in those days, especially during the Civil War [made worse by plague]. It was even widespread in Iraq under Sadaam. Your wife awaiting your return from work could receive your bits in a bodybag and be asked for the price of it.
To the militant threat of terrorism, G says: `My contention is not that we cannot deal with such emerging threats, but that our inability to craft a compelling response is increasingly the problem.'
What a bad sentence this is: what does it mean but: `None of us know what to do.' How can you deal with threats if that is the case?
Why is that? Because none of them have the necessary insight.
What then is the answer? One answer is to invest in a vast array of surveillance for the protection of the population. Let Big Brother be watching our every move. Damn George Orwell: it would save lives. The expense is worth it. Honest people need never fear Big Brother. The rest do not matter. Every individual's ID should be his defining feature and, if he needs to know where we are, Big Brother should be able to get us on his GPS. We would soon know where every terrorist is and every illegal immigrant. The loss of personal privacy and freedom is a trifle to pay for making the evil doer in society stand out and be taken before he damages it. Of course GCHQ is already monitoring almost everyone of interest, whatever anyone says. Anything different is madness. If it helped for every citizen of the UK to have a chip embedded in him (like the Bourne agent by Ludlum) I favour it. Of course in the wrong hands we might be controlled by it. Ensure they are the right hands, then. Make a system that is foolproof. We already have them for nuclear submarines [or if we do not none of it matters]. Problem solved. People's lives come before everything. Terrorism might even dry up altogether if its detection were very likely. If it would help for everybody to be filmed 24/7, I favour it. Honest folk need not fear it; the rest do not matter. It would at a single stroke practically eliminate wrongdoing.
G makes a plea for support for the general. This is fair. It is a feature of our world that the general has taken almighty flak from the political masters and the media when things go wrong [even when activity with a woman not his wife: as if that should count when what is at stake are the lives of thousands].
What should happen is that the General, once appointed, gets all the supplies and kit he needs and is left to get on with it at least for a time. He should get full support from every section of the country. Of course he does not.
How is it that Bravo 20 in their intrusion into Iraq were so poorly supported? They had no decent boots (Ryan, alone bought a pair of �90 climbers which almost wore out on his 300 km trek) and no GPS (except Ryan had his own but he got separated) and the communication codes were incorrect so the team was cut off from succour as soon as they were dropped: helicopter rescue was impossible. Of course that was the first absolutely necessary factor. These errors were disastrous. So was the lack of intelligence: they were in a bleak landscape with a diabolically low temperature and no warm clothing. One of them froze to death. No one in command knew this in advance. Why not? Why was the system of planning so bizarre that the two sergeants in the team of nine were responsible? That was madness! On every SAS patrol of that kind, the very best tactical brain should be employed as a matter of routine. Even if he is not going. To leave the planning, the very vital details, up to the ordinary squaddies is just another facet of the belief that `competence will do.' It won't do! The SAS does not exist merely to be competent. It's lifeblood is excellence: the very best that is possible. That is what we expect of it. It is what we should have always. They get killed when they are merely competent. Every detail ought to be checked, in advance; every contingency considered and covered. Yet I bet they are just the same as before. Bravo 20 were viewed as competent before their intrusive move. As soon as they went they had become incompetent; their preparations were rubbish. And no one told them they would be. Competence is not enough.
Why, even was there not a plan for the goatherd who stumbled into the LOP? Of course he should have been killed immediately. Left alive he was bound to report their presence. In a war, behind the lines, that is the best solution. If capturing and holding him was practical that might just have been tried. But he would have been missed anyway and a search made for him. How can you allow the task to fail and our men to be captured and killed because you let him go? Madness again. How was it that a man, Considine, who was only 5ft 2 was on the team when he had to carry a bergen of 160lbs for many miles? How did that make sense? Why was a sergeant who was past his sell by date in the squad? It killed him. That should have been noticed in advance. God knows, plenty of others could have replaced him. The command structure within the SAS is clearly defective and should be made 100% efficient. So far from being an admirable performance, the actions of Bravo 20 were a disaster: 3 men out of nine were killed and 5 captured and tortured. Only one went free; and very little was achieved. Their plans were never going to work, had no chance of success and the top manager, Graeme Lamb, should have carried the can. The world's elite troops should have achieved something worthy for so much effort, danger and so many lives ruined. It was, I believe, an elementary matter to have solved these problems which made success impossible before they ever set out. Because of the attitude since to this, it looks a certainty that the same failures will still be a factor in SAS operations. These men are distinguished by their stamina, determination, their courage, their idealism and capacity for self sacrifice and their skill. It is simply appalling that these important factors should be worth nothing because the planning was so defective.
Why was the problem of IED's in Afghanistan not solved by vast surveillance? The technology exists. For years they went out in vehicles that were death traps. Our soldier's lives matter! We should never go to war on the cheap. If it means another fifty quid each in tax, pay it! The MOD should be disbanded and rebuilt from the ground up. Then equipment failures would be a thing of the past. And why is it that a fixed price contract cannot be negotiated and adhered to? Every time the price doubles. Better to get what we ordered and then order a different, improved weapon again five years later, if necessary, to cover technical advances. How could it make sense to have two aircraft carriers without state of the art fighters to fly off them? The MOD is a hidebound, wasteful and incompetent, madhouse. No bonuses or honours should go to its incumbents.
What are the qualities of the general? Three things are not enough. He must have great courage. He must be there at the front to lead: Caesar did, US Grant did (Grant, learning that his army was on the point of being routed, made haste to the position and ordered his men: 'Fill your cartridge boxes and line up: the enemy are escaping and we must not allow it.' he won the battle. That was leadership. They needed a command and he was there to give it. He even changed their mindset from facing defeat to the verge of victory. That was brilliant. He needs to have gallopers (Monty's middle rankers) who went all over the battle field and returned to tell him what was happening. Then he could adjust and adapt and respond. He needs then to be in continuous communication. Preparation (building up men and supplies, after training) is vital: another Monty factor. But he must have insight: the ability to see what few people can. Alan Brooke, CIGS, realised that Marshall, the American counterpart, did not have it. Brooke has to be right about that. Neither did Ike. Monty was a far better strategist. He has to have the resolution which will win the battle even at the loss of more men: When some generals asked Monty for permission to retreat back through the minefield at Alamein through which they had just passed through at great cost, Monty's response was: NO! Get the job done instantly or be deprived of it. Ruthless in the pursuit of victory. Shed anybody who has not the stomach for it. Does the General need to be a nice guy (like Ike, Marshall?) No. He will win respect by victory. Does it matter if he is undiplomatic and even boastful as Monty was? No. No wonder he was. He could see far better than the other generals. When writing his memoirs, Monty was unaware that the Germans [General Model] had received his plans before the Arnhem fiasco. No wonder he lost. But Ike could have saved it: put in the weight of weapons, armour, aircraft and supplies which would have guaranteed it. Ike allowed the available forces to be distributed all across Europe from the Switzerland to the Sea, most of them to Patton, glory hunter, who had got ahead of himself. ie Ike was confused: the plan was to support the Arnhem attack, not to support Patton's private ventures. Ike lost sight of that.
Is it possible to encapsulate generalship in just three factors? Probably not. Not even thirty. The word character is not enough: what kind of character? Everybody has character. The word is useless without careful definition. And leaders are not even alike in this factor. Nor is competence: it is outrageous that Graeme Lamb thinks it is. Bravo 20 were incompetent in so many ways that the mission was a virtual catastrophe. If you must introduce the level of performance of a skill: there is only one word that will do: excellence. Anything less is not good enough. And it is achieveable! A unit of nine can be prepared so that there are no errors that arise from the planning stage. Everything can be triple checked down to the last microdot by independent checkers who will notice every flaw. Not to have this in the system is a mistake that will have cost lives in the past, that long journey since Bravo 2o's. A general must be an all-rounder, physically and mentally tough, able to do without sleep and even work round the clock when necessary for days on end. But these are just basics many soldiers possess. This itself accounts for Maj Gen Fuller's insistence on youth: 35-45: the old cannot do this; need their comforts and never agree to be supplanted on that ground, which is why Fuller advanced no further and generals are invariably past it: it is a closed shop and they keep the door shut out of self interest. The one soldier who must be on trial in exercises is the general to see if he can respond. He must be resolute, yet willing to listen and on the qui vive for the information that tells him he must change course, adjust the plan in the light of circumstances. He must have the habit of crystal clear thinking, especially in the bullet zone when it counts most and the ability, given to few, to articulate explanations, reasons, orders very precisely so anyone can understand them fast. Of course he must have courage, must be able to put himself in the forefront of the action where by his steadiness and confidence he can inspire the men around him. He must be respected as a man with all the usual manly qualities. But unless he can see better than anyone else, has the insight to know what to do for the best, he will not make a strategist or a tactician and he needs to be both. Let us be clear: he must be better than anyone on the other side: otherwise we have lost before we have even begun. And if he is, he will be victorious and he will gain respect; but by his peers he will be envied and they, lacking this divine shaft of intelligence, will not understand the full calibre of his mind. Marshall never understood that Brooke was miles better than he; nor did ike that Monty was far better than him. It is essential to keep the big picture in mind all the time, not being distracted from it (the strategy) and yet being alert to tactical possibilities that arise. But there is something beyond all these, as Maj Gen Fuller pointed out: creative intelligence: taking the art of war forward by some new outlook, idea, or device. Something the mediocre general will not expect, has no plan for and will be defeated by. This even affects other battles, the very war itself. The enemy general is made to look ridiculous not only by his own troops but by himself. Inventiveness is always high on the list of the great, even of generals. The truly great general transforms the art of war itself.
How do you know when this is present? There is only one way: by the articulation of the insights, the production of clear arguments that are compelling and cannot be bettered. That is the only way of identifying this most vital ingredient without handing over the reins in full battle. And how do you train for this? By the activity of planning strategy. Is there an outside activity which would help? Yes. Philosophy. Not the study of its history but the mastery of insight and the merciless destruction of false arguments and (which follows or can follow) the development of the faculty of insight which is necessary. Eg PF Strawson got a second in philosophy before becoming a lecturer in the subject. He came to prominence when, in 1950 at the joint session of the Aristotelian and Mind Societies�, after the paper had been read, Strawson, instantly and off the cuff, mercilessly exposed the intellectual failings of a well respected philosopher JL Austin. When he had finished everyone knew that that theory had been demolished. This is the kind of critical intelligence which is necessary. It does not compel because it carries a weight of past victories, still less because it is loaded with honours and titles but because it is correct in the insights provided. Strawson was soon a professor and knighted for his achievement. He did advance the subject: it was not the same after his passing.
Why is that important? Because unless you can demolish the wrong answers, immediately, off the cuff, the right answer that you alone can see will not prevail.
@Hist of Western Phil, Russell, p532
* ibid p533
� See Times Obituary of Sir PF Strawson c 2005
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Dr Barry Clayton says:
This is not a review of the book. It smacks of self-indulgence on a grand scale.
90% of this is a torrent of half-baked criticisms by someone who has no knowledge or understanding of the military.
Suggest you focus on fiction from now on.
In reply to an earlier post on 8 Dec 2014 17:54:35 GMT
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It is not intended to be a review of the book at all. It is a review of one paper in the book. And I know the person who wrote it. I have also read most of the books relevant to the issue addressed. A number of people agree with the review. Anyone with 'no knowledge of the military' would have been unable to write such a criticism. Has Clayton read Major-General JFC Fuller? Probably not and for the usual reasons: ignorance and snobbery.
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I had several issues with the magicjack; my husband and I had two seperate users, but it wouldn't work on both.Also, a lot of times when I'd pick up the phone to call out there would be no dial tone and it would not dial.
Sometimes it will dial and say it connected but then drop the call after one or two seconds. And tonight, for over an hour, I have tried to call my home phone (the one connected to the MagicJack) from my cell phone and keep getting a message stating that all circuts are busy.
In conclusion, if I cannot send or receive calls, what is the point of this device?review #142121
Nov 23, 2013 #746882
We have had Magic Jack for approximately 2months. All of a sudden callers are receiving a message that our phone is disconnected! When working with a tech on love chat we were suddenly disconnected....it was past 7pm est! They dropped the call and did not bother calling back. Poor customer service, lousy equipment and difficult to return!
Sep 13, 2012 #541803
I'm not able to transport my number. Error message is my credit card security code is invalid. Magicjack says its my internet provider but it happens with both att and centurylink. any ideas??0 0 Reply
Sep 11, 2012 #540639
I would like to talk to some one on the telephone, I need a number I can talk to a person, I having problem with my magic jack.0 0 Reply
Sep 06, 2012 #538853
I am having constant problems wit MJ and I have had it for a couple of years. At firs there were no problems. There are no conversations now and I signed up for 5 years! I cannot do business!!!
I loved it and thought it was a great deal. Now, it never works well. The calls I make leaves the person the other end frustrated, yelling loudly to me and saying they can't hear me. I can hear them some of the times, at other times, I can hear them. They tell me I sound like I am under water
May 16, 2012 #481140
my mj worked pretty good, for a while, then not enough loudness, very low, my phone is as loud as it will go. if your computer goes off, due to power failure, then you got to set it up all over again, like this morning.big storm last night. help if you can, don;t purchase this product, they have a lots of inproving to do.0 0 Reply
Mar 22, 2012 #453666
My MJ can only receive calls, but I cannot dial out. What can be the problem?0 0 Reply
Jan 08, 2012 #405186
Same problems. Worked great for a couple of times, now I cannot get it to ring (even though it has a dial tone) AND WHAT IS SO AGGRAVATING IS THAT YOU CANNOT CONTACT ANYBODY AT MAGIC JACK TO GET HELP.0 0 Reply
Jan 02, 2012 #401482
jUST INSTALL THE MAGICJAKE MY PHONE IS DOING OUTING CALL HOW DO I FIX THIS HELP!!!can someo0 0 Reply
Dec 30, 2011 #400020
I have a MAC desk top home computer with an ethernet connection and therefore use a modem. If you also use a modem, check to see if there is an empty ethernet port on the back of it before you bother buying a magic jack plus. If you can't connect the magic jack via the ethernet cord to the modem, you can't use a magic jack. I have asked which external router would work to connect both the computer and the magic jack to the internet via the modem and 2 hours with customer service, I'm still waiting. Thank God for on line solitaire or I'd go nuts waiting0 0 Reply
Dec 29, 2011 #399814
Why cannot call Montana, you say the USA, and world, but that is noy true.0 0 Reply
Dec 23, 2011 #396223
I purchased 800 international minutes on MJ & have only used 200 at most. Last night I made a call & rrecording said I have 29 minutes left!!! Where are my 600 minutes??? No one to call. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS DEVICE!!!! BIG RIPOFF!!!!!0 0 Reply
Nov 06, 2011 #370263
i bought magic jack from a previous owner and haow do i configure it to my computor0 0 Reply
Oct 12, 2011 #358021
Ican not call any body on my magic jack . i bought it on 5/16/11 so it should be still good Please tell me how i can resolve this problem Jeannette Martin0 0 Reply
Oct 05, 2011 #354520
I work from home. I am on the phone for 8 hours a day. This thing worked great for a couple of weeks. I purchased a new computer (top of the line) and now it won't work. I cut in and out, can't talk to my customers. I have purchased expensive cords and tried everything. I purchased the jack and 5 years of service...and now have NO WAY to contact customer service. I am really ticked!!!!!0 0 Reply
Jun 30, 2011 #306726
My magicjack worked sorta fine for a while but then I plugged in another telephone into a jack & now the phone only rings a half a ring & disconnects. Any help with that. I have talked to their chat but they don't know what to do. I have no one in my area who knows anything about mj. The person who hooked it up for me has moved away. He did some rewiring but don't know what.
Please help
Jun 15, 2011 #298941
I forget my password0 0 Reply
May 07, 2011 #283412
We are extremely upset with Magic Jack. Since we re-uped we have no dial tone or are cut off within two seconds and loose our calls after a few minutes calling or we can't even get a dial tone even though the phone connected to it is working. Don't waste your money with this device as you will pay the money out in medication after you get so agrivated.0 0 Reply
Mar 07, 2011 #257417
I purchased internationial minutes and cannot make international calls. They have submitted the problem to engineering and have no resolution date. Skype works great. Magic Jack sells and cannot deliver. Good luck with the chat tech support also. Ive asked for my money back and have to wait.0 0 Reply
Feb 25, 2011 #253174
My MJ doesn't work either..It worked twice but now
I have no dial tone and can not call out!
Feb 20, 2011 #251178
I have had this MJ for about a week and my mom gets a busy signal when she tries to call me from her landline 1150 miles away.if she call from her cell phone it rings one time and goes to a busy signal. the techs from magicjack I don't think knows whats wrong, they told me to turn off my anti virus as I AM NOT doing that as that should not have anything to do with the problem.0 0 Reply
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