This is Not a Surrealism
- A Manifesto for and against the Simulacra of Surrealism
Sydney: Apothecary Archive Publishing, 2024.
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Interview about This is not a Surrealism on East Side Radio, 1 November 2024.
Weir’s Writings on the “Simulacra of Surrealism”
The term “simulacra” refers to a “copy” or a “likeness” where an art object, like a marble sculpture of a face for example, captures an exact likeness but also something profoundly different about it so that the marble itself becomes estranged. In surrealism, the “simulacra” also refers to the copy of the world that we keep inside ourselves, and that we inhabit when we dream and when we imagine.
