Christian Molenaar

Tag: travel

  • Divination and Volition

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    I got back to San Diego late last night, parked the rental car at Enterprise and threw the keys in the dropbox. The drive wasn’t bad, though I probably didn’t need to stop at both Pea Soup Andersen’s and Bravo Farms. Maybe it’s simply because I grew up in one, but I can never turn… Read more

  • Memory Rehearsal

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    Some day in the future, Eleni Sikelianos will need no introduction. Great-granddaughter of the five-time Nobel candidate Angelos Sikelianos and the choreographer and Delphic Festival revivalist Eva Palmer-Sikelianos and herself a recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Fulbright Program, Sikelianos’s artistic credentials should be clearly established from the start. Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Open Gate 5/3/25

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    Hotfoot finally put out our album in January but I’d swear we had this show booked before it was even written. Nathan’s 50th birthday is in a couple weeks which means the end of his 12 Records Towards 50 project is nearly upon us. I should have gotten him a cake, but I guess a… Read more

  • Three Fragments Overheard in Tucson, AZ

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    Scene: a Tiki Bar. Read more

  • The Subjective

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    Video from last month’s Religion & Art event at Goldsmiths is now online, including this great panel discussion I had with Drs. Harri Hudspith, Nina Danino and Teresa Calonje about Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich and of course somehow I ended up going on about Spinoza and Deleuze. Read more

  • The First British Pizza

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    “Lud wishes to know,” Whike relays at last, “Mr. Emerson’s Cousin’s Views, upon the Structure of the World.” Read more

  • Strophische Gedichten

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    Strophische Gedichten is my new film inspired by Hadewijch of Brabant, Stan Brakhage, Anne Carson, Emily Brontë and John Ashbery, premiering March 14th at Goldsmiths College as part of Religion & Art + the subjective. Read more

  • First Sun

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    Zurich in winter is often smothered in fog and low clouds for months on end. Prevailing winds from the north ram the clouds coming in from the Atlantic against the wall of the Alps, and there they stick. Gray day after gray day, in a gray city by a gray lake, split by a gray… Read more

  • Hotfoot @ Vernacular New Music 11/18/25

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    Back in June, Nathan Hubbard assembled Dan Clucas and myself to record nine tracks of obnoxious avant-jazz a la Naked City or Universal Congress Of. You’ll hear that album eventually, but if you had made it out to Sun Space in north LA last night you could have heard it all twice. Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

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    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

Thought:

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The corpse, seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life. Abject. It is something rejected from which one does not part, from which one does not protect oneself as from an object. Imaginary uncanniness and real threat, it beckons to us and ends up engulfing us.

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Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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