/ VEGETARIAN FESTIVAL / THAILAND 1999 FROM EXALTATION BY DESIREE DOLRON.
‘Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.’ / Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
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Anagnorisis describes the moment of tragic recognition when the hero understands and accepts his fate. It is a moment that, in terms of meaning, is strangely alchemical, turning the base metal of inevitable defeat and death into an eternal victory of sorts. For in appropriating disaster the hero proves that, though they are subject to the contingencies of fate, they are also a match for it. The position is one that combines resignation and resistance, submission and overcoming.
The act of making art about, of, or from disaster, excess and tragedy, as Dolron has done, is a form of meta-anagnorisis that allows both creator and viewer to share in an engagement, though safely sublimated at some distance into culture, with inexorable fate and inescapable contingency. To do so is to preserve our sanity in the face of madness, the only place indeed, where our sanity can be forged. In that moment of anagnorisis, the tragic hero may be said to be sane.
/ EXCERPT FROM MENIN AEDIE THEA BY NICK HACKWORTH. THE ENTIRE ESSAY, INSPIRED BY THE CONTROVERSIAL EXALTATION SERIES, IS EXCLUSIVE TO THE 16-PAGE DESIREE DOLRON FEATURE IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE.
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The full line-up for ISSUE003 includes designers YOHJI YAMAMOTO, RICK OWENS, & OLIVIER THEYSKENS [NINA RICCI & ROCHAS]; former editor-in-chief of French VOGUE IRENE SILVAGNI; musicians JARVIS COCKER [PULP], BRETT ANDERSON [SUEDE], & WARREN ELLIS [NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS]; artists STEVE MCQUEEN [with actress CHARLOTTE RAMPLING], ZHANG HUAN, LEE BUL, PINAR YOLAÇAN, MARTIN D’ORGEVAL, DESIREE DOLRON, & MIGUEL RIO BRANCO; photographers JULIEN CLAESSENS, THOMAS DESCHAMPS, MOTE SINABEL [with acclaimed butoh performer TAKETERU KUDO], MILOSLAV DRUCKMÜLLER [interview with DEREK THOMSON], & JOHAN SANDBERG [featuring SUZANNE VON AICHINGER, 80’s fashion icon & JEAN PAUL GAULTIER muse], plus intimate portraits of BETONY VERNON from her boudoir-dungeon & discussion about her life & book THE BOUDOIR BIBLE. Post-face contributed by artist ROGER BALLEN.
SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY BY HUBERT MAROT & CHARLOTTE BALLESTEROS / EDITING MONIKA BIELSKYTE / PRODUCTION SOME/THINGS AGENCY.
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SOME/THINGS ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE CONVEYS RELATIONSHIPS & EXPERIENCES BETWEEN PEOPLE, BETWEEN PLACES, & WITHIN OUR SOCIETY & CULTURE. IT EVOKES A FASCINATION FOR THE THINGS WE HAVE IN OUR LIVES, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE & PLACES THAT ARE A PART OF IT. ALTHOUGH A SLIGHT DEPARTURE FROM THE AUSTERE & MONOCHROMATIC AESTHETIC OF THE FIRST TWO BOOKS, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE MAINTAINS A UNIQUE APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY ART, CULTURE & FASHION, THIS TIME WITH A PARTICULARLY STRONG FOCUS ON PERSONAL HISTORIES. WHILE ESCHEWING AN OVERT SENSE OF NOSTALGIA, IT ACKNOWLEDGES PAST EXPERIENCES & PAST RELATIONSHIPS, & THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE ON THE PRESENT.
The full line-up for ISSUE003 includes designers YOHJI YAMAMOTO, RICK OWENS, & OLIVIER THEYSKENS [NINA RICCI & ROCHAS]; former editor-in-chief of French VOGUE IRENE SILVAGNI; musicians JARVIS COCKER [PULP], BRETT ANDERSON [SUEDE], & WARREN ELLIS [NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS]; artists STEVE MCQUEEN [with actress CHARLOTTE RAMPLING], ZHANG HUAN, LEE BUL, PINAR YOLAÇAN, MARTIN D’ORGEVAL, DESIREE DOLRON, & MIGUEL RIO BRANCO; photographers JULIEN CLAESSENS, THOMAS DESCHAMPS, MOTE SINABEL [with acclaimed butoh performer TAKETERU KUDO], MILOSLAV DRUCKMÜLLER [interview with DEREK THOMSON], & JOHAN SANDBERG [featuring SUZANNE VON AICHINGER, 80’s fashion icon & JEAN PAUL GAULTIER muse], plus intimate portraits of BETONY VERNON from her boudoir-dungeon & discussion about her life & book THE BOUDOIR BIBLE. Post-face contributed by artist ROGER BALLEN.
ISSUE003 OPENS WITH MIGUEL RIO BRANCO’S INTENSE COLOUR IMAGERY, REVEALING THE SHADOWY SIDE OF BRAZIL, IN WHICH BEAUTY BECOMES BEAST, & DESIRE BECOMES MADNESS— A MULTITUDE OF REALITIES & CREEDS WITH FACES & BODIES MELTING INTO ONE ANOTHER— FRIGHTENING, YET ENTRANCING & FASCINATING.
INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF BETONY VERNON FROM HER BOUDOIR-DUNGEON & DISCUSSION ON THE PLEASURE TABOO.
CONTINUING THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HOUSE OF RICK OWENS & MICHELE LAMY, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE PROVIDES A GLIMPSE INTO THE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF RICK’S NEW ALABASTER FURNITURE, SHOT IN THE INTIMATE SPACE OF THE ATELIERS WHERE THE PIECES ARE BEING HAND MADE.
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE SEES THE CONTINUED RELATIONSHIP WITH PHOTOGRAPHER MOTE SINABEL IN A SPECIAL EDITORIAL FEATURING ONE OF JAPAN’S MOST ACCLAIMED BUTOH DANCERS, TAKETERU KUDO AS WELL AS MODEL MARCEL CASTENMILLER, KNOWN FOR HIS WORK WITH ANN DEMEULEMEESTER.
STILLS FROM ARTIST STEVE MCQUEEN’S FILM, CHARLOTTE— A TENDER & STRIKINGLY SEXUAL PROJECTION OF ACTRESS CHARLOTTE RAMPLING.
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SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003 FIRST DELIVERY ARRIVES TO PARIS MONDAY 13 SEPTEMBER, IN THE STORES FROM SEPTEMBER 15!
[PHOTOGRAPHY ABOVE BY GULNARA GALIACHMETOVA & DANIEL SAMULEWICZ]
IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE WE WILL ALSO HAVE A VERY SPECIAL FEATURE ON TRULY VERY INTENSE PROJECT BY DESIREE DOLRON. WITH NEVER PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED TEXT BY NICK HACKWORTH.
SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE CONTENTS WILL INCLUDE (SUBJECT TO MINOR CHANGES)
BETONY VERNON EDITORIAL-PORTRAIT WITH AN EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW
BRETT ANDERSON PORTRAIT WITH AN INTERVIEW
DESIREE DOLRON FEATURE WITH TEXT BY NICK HACKWORTH
EDITORIAL WITH ALEKSANDRA RASTOVIC BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE
EDITORIAL WITH MARCEL CASTENMILLER & KUDO BY MOTE SINABEL
EDITORIAL WITH OLIVIER THEYSKENS BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE
EDITORIAL WITH SUZANNE VON AISCHINGER BY JOHAN SANDBERG
IRENE SILVAGNI PORTRAIT WITH AN EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW
JARVIS COCKER FEATURE WITH AN INTERVIEW BY RAINA LAMPKINS-FIELDER
JULIEN CLAESSENS & THOMAS DESCHAMPS
LEE BUL FEATURE
MILOSLAV DRUCKMULLER FEATURE WITH AN INTERVIEW BY DEREK THOMSON
MARTIN D'ORGEVAL
MIGUEL RIO BRANCO FEATURE WITH AN INTERVIEW
OLIVIER THEYSKENS FEATURE WITH AN INTERVIEW BY STEPHEN TODD
PINAR YOLACAN FEATURE WITH AN INTERVIEW BY RAINA LAMPKINS-FIELDER
RARE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS BY MARTIN D'ORGEVAL
RICK OWENS
STEVE MCQUEEN & CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
WARREN ELLIS PORTRAIT WITH AN INTERVIEW
YOHJI YAMAMOTO FEATURE / WITH IMAGES BY PETER LINDBERGH, PAOLO ROVERSI, SARAH MOON, CRAIG MCDEAN, MAX VADUKUL
ZHANG HUAN
... & MUCH MORE !!
DUE FOR SEPTEMBER 2010, PRE-ORDER IN SOME/THINGS ONLINE BOUTIQUE FROM JULY 5