The Alphabet Collection is an artist collective made up of Mohammad Salemy and Patrick Schabus. It functions as a platform for their ongoing historical research and practice in text and art production concerning mythopoesis in the time of rising complexity and artificial intelligence. Salemy is an independent Berlin-based artist, critic and curator from Canada. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MA in critical curatorial studies from the University of British Columbia. He has shown his works internationally and his writings have been published in e-fiux, Flash Art, Third Rail, Brooklyn Rail, Ocula, Arts ofthe Working Class and Spike. Schabus is an independent artist, filmmaker and curator who holds an MA in visual arts from the Academy ofFine Arts Vienna. He has shown his works internationally and his writings have been published in engagee, Malmoe, and artmagazine.cc. From 2015 until 2018 he was the director and curator of the Mandelkern Project. In 2017 he won the honorary prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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It Is Only Sound That Remains: Reconstructing Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black
THE HOUSE IS BLACK ON YOUTUBE Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black stands tall, somewhere between moving images and words, sound and music, cinema and poetry, documentary and experimental film; between Realism, Surrealism and Magical Realism, while being none in particular. The work is a mere twenty-minute strip of film, fragments of a special type of precarious… Read More »