Reginald Jean-Francois – Invisible Mirrors

June 6, 2010October 8, 2011

Invisible Mirrors at LoBe Gallery (Berlin)

Invisible Mirrors will be showing at the LoBe gallery in Berlin until June 24th as part of The Mortar of Distribution show curated by Matthew Poole.

March 28, 2010October 8, 2011

Screening of Invisible Mirrors at the Cabinet Gallery

On Tuesday March 30th between 7 and 9 pm I will be giving a talk about Haiti, the Ghetto Biennale and Bataille’s theory of Religion to accompany a screening of Invisible Mirrors at the Cabinet gallery, 49-59 Old Street, London EC1V 9HX.

I will show the film from 7 till 7.15, talk for an hour, then show the film again at 8.15.

The image above is the poster I have made to promote the Tele-Geto project created by the Ti Moun Rezistans of Grand Rue.

Roberto Peyre has also posted video footage of the screening of Invisible Mirrors at the Ghetto Biennale here.

Places are limited so can you please RSVP the Cabinet at art@cabinetgalleryltd.demon.co.uk.

February 10, 2010October 8, 2011

Remote Viewing

If anyone happens to know anyone in Sidney they might want to go to this show in which I’m showing the Invisible Mirrors film about the ceremonial boar.

“Finally an authoritative book on that weird, complex figure of the zombie that delves deep into the dark heart of the matter rather than skating the surface. John Cussans is that rare writer who can bring to bear anthropology, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial history, philosophy, politics, folk-lore and a love of pulp fiction and film to offer a compelling story about how a marginal superstition from the Caribbean became the defining monster of our times. Prepare for a wild ride that moves elegantly from Hegel and Haiti, via Mesmerism, James Bond, Georges Bataille and Surrealism to Papa Doc Duvalier and Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors, always steadily illuminating a path through a forest of delirious details. A truly marvellous journey.”

Roger Lockhurst, author of Zombies: A Cultural History

“Cussans rejects exceptionalist explanations of Vodou and the zombie to present a nuanced description of those phenomena within the international political, economic and cultural environment in which both the realities and the inventions are situated. This comprehensive work is a must read for anyone wishing to understand more about the destinies of African-based religions in the Americas, and especially concerning the uses and abuses of Haitian cultural phenomena by outside interests.”

LeGrace Benson, author of Arts and Religions of Haiti: How the Sun Illuminates Under Cover of Darkness and President of The Haitian Studies Association.

“No one alive, or – almost certainly – deceased, has thought about zombies more voraciously than John Cussans. While the outcome of this feasting is not pretty, what it has unearthed cannot be laid to rest again. Those who doubt the consistency, deep historical momentum, or global significance of the ‘zombie-complex’ will find all such reservations fundamentally challenged by this troubling book. Subsequent to this meticulous and wide-ranging process of exhumation, it is no longer plausible to deny that an inexterminable anticipation of undead uprising continues to define the horizon of our world.”

Nick Land, author of Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism.