This is the first (of hopefully many) artist features here on General Antagonism. Our first featured artist is olivier who I met through SAIC and first found out about when they wrote a feature on my books for the library there. What immediately struck me was the generosity in which they practiced a form of reading in which the archive becomes an active space of play and exploration. For them, it seems, notions of what is possible therein is limited not by the biographical, historical, and textual (although they consider these with utmost respect), but rather by one’s time imagining within that space. This piece in which they dive into their own life’s intersection with the comics of a Belgian artist that were released in the 20th century exemplifies this approach. Using Lichtenstein’s print they seem to tap into the chimeric and ever changing possibilities that lie behind the seeming solidity of straight-passing world. Gender here is fungible and I invite you all to spend some time with Tintin and past and present olivier to find what it is their telling us in the adventure that they weave.
Rereading Tintin through Tintin Reading
Rereading Tintin through Tintin Reading
Rereading Tintin through Tintin Reading
This is the first (of hopefully many) artist features here on General Antagonism. Our first featured artist is olivier who I met through SAIC and first found out about when they wrote a feature on my books for the library there. What immediately struck me was the generosity in which they practiced a form of reading in which the archive becomes an active space of play and exploration. For them, it seems, notions of what is possible therein is limited not by the biographical, historical, and textual (although they consider these with utmost respect), but rather by one’s time imagining within that space. This piece in which they dive into their own life’s intersection with the comics of a Belgian artist that were released in the 20th century exemplifies this approach. Using Lichtenstein’s print they seem to tap into the chimeric and ever changing possibilities that lie behind the seeming solidity of straight-passing world. Gender here is fungible and I invite you all to spend some time with Tintin and past and present olivier to find what it is their telling us in the adventure that they weave.