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In his essay, The Uncanny, Freud discusses the uncanny qualities of "the double". In a footnote he writes: … it is interesting to observe what the effect is of meeting one's own image unbidden and unexpected. Ernst Mach has related […]
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Unheimlich opens 17th of April (Leeds Met Gallery) Wittgenstein : A Family Resemblance In his book Philosophical Investigations (1951), Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed a theory of "family resemblances" to understand the nature of terms that do not admit of a full […]
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Diving Board Sketch
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[The Sandman is] a wicked man who comes when childrenwon't go to bed, and throws handfuls of sand in their eyes sothat they jump out of their heads all bleeding.'E.T.A. Hoffman 1816 The Sandman We know from psycho-analytic experience, however, […]
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In his 1899 novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's narrator describes a first impression of an infamous ivory trader named Kurtz: I could not hear a sound, but through my glasses I saw the thin arm extended commandingly, the lower […]
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My grandfather told a story from his time in national service, which he spent working at RAF Ringstead Radar Station, in Dorset, circa.1950. This is what my mother and I can remember of it: At Ringstead there was a radar […]
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. The Ghostly Videotape In 1990, when the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby was released on videotape, people began to notice for the first time a "ghost" image, apparently of a young boy, in the background of one […]
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Mark Seltzer Serial Killers 1998 Mark Seltzer makes frequent reference to the uncanny in his 1998 book Serial Killers. Here are some excerpts: There is something uncanny about how these killers are so much alike, living composites, how easily they […]
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H. G. Wells The Invisible Man H. G. Wells creates uncanny effects with his descriptions of the title character's appearance. Heavily disguised, and often lurking in darkness, Wells' invention is a forerunner to the masked villains of 1970s-90s horror movies […]
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This blog accompanies the touring art exhibition The Unheimlich, curated by Matt Roberts. I'm Matt Lippiatt, and I'm one of the artists whose work will appear in the exhibition. I plan to use this blog to collect research material including […]
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Things that go Bump in the Night was an exhibition curated by Dominic Mason at the Victorian Gothic, at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe. The exhibition ran from 15 Sept – 1 Dec 2007, and featured work by Nigel […]
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Dead Bodies and Cardboard was an art exhibition which ran from 9th – 23rd February 2008 at Elevator Gallery, London. I exhibited a new video titled Porn Shoot Off-Cuts in this show. The video is made from footage shot by […]