T.Archivist is an instagram page that epitomises what we here in HOLLYWOOD call "The heydey of the instagram archival impulse".

Following on from our piece with @BATHMAT3000 Hollywood is attempting to understand the affect of estoteric knowledge and book collecting upon the now-all-powerful-algorithimically-dictated explore page.

T.archivist also runs Pinakotheca shop - where they sell actual rare books, some of which form the content for the page itself.

As seen in Artforum's lifting of articles from its archive to post to its instagram, the fetishisation of the past is very **en vogue: an archive page will post an image of Klee's "angel of history" next to a batch of post-war japanese erotic illustration.

If you're cult event/erotic book/ political assasination/far left leaning exhibition isnt chronicled in a series of slides, did it even occur?

In 2050 your children will run an archive page that places images of Luigi Mangione leaving court alongside photographs of Mazzy Joya by Richard Kern.

The past lives on in the present...yadayadayada

BEST POSTS INCLUDE:

A record of Deryk Thomas’ paintings for Swans’ “White Light from the Mouth of Infinity,” 1991, and “Love of Life, “1992.”

“Lost in Manboo: Living In A Japanese Internet Cafe,” 2014.

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Favourite non-sentient object and sentient object

Oysters as nonsentient/ petroleum as sentient

Is the archive a response to loneliness? Is the archive a house of ghosts?

The whole of the internet is a house of ghosts. When you die on the internet, you die on repeat for eternity everytime you death is shared again.

Is life what you expected when you were a kid?

I didn’t really have many expectations for the future as a child, but I would say I never would have came up with what I do now, or the people I have met, or the places I have been.

What do you think about storing stuff on the cloud?

I don’t have an issue with storing things on the cloud, I will say it isn’t very safe or reliable but for stuff like 100s of gigabytes of high res scans, it can be pretty useful.

What is ur relationship to your schizophrenic device?

Pacifier/salt lick.

Favourite Instagram account

Czwarve/ mythrobbingristle/ archivistmag / bathmat3000

@Bathmatt3000

@mythrobbinggristle

@archivistmag

Do you think you are cool?

I think I am affable.

Conspiracy theory/ cultural event you would want dramatised.

https://gideonkeys.wikidot.com/
While this doesn’t exactly fit the confines of conspiracy theory, The Gideon Keys is probably my favorite thought experiment/ work of internet fiction. What if every major city in the world had a bunch of magical phenomena that you could interact with or witness? What if a certain record under a shelf at an antique store would give you a live feed of someone's thoughts when you play it. As long as you put it back when you are done, nothing bad will happen to you. Or what if every blood transfusion done in your county comes from the same donor? The donor being an endlessly bleeding headless corpse that has been held by the district hospital in a secret room since the 1870s. Much of this phenomenon is localized and presents itself through regional institutions, unique to your area.

Would you like to buy this?

https://www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/situationist-music-cassette
No, as it is sold out, but it looks worth listening to.

Is there anything that separates erotica and pornography?

Erotica is made with artistic intent in mind, whereas pornography can only have art as an afterthought. Porn must be explicit; erotica is suggestive. Pornography is seldom ‘tasteful,’ but erotica relies on taste, and is typically presented as a cultural work, fashion, literature, or, again, art itself.

Favourite books on your erotica section of your website?

Koji Wakamatsu- Pink Film Collection: My Eros Feast, 1970. A collection of stills by the highly acclaimed Japanese director.
Richard Cerf, S/T, 1990. Amazing and unique artistic direction.
Yoshifumi Hayashi - La Jeune Mariee D'un Materialiste Enceinte De Cerveaux, 1994. Morbid and incredible drawings.

Koji Wakamatsu- Pink Film Collection: My Eros Feast, 1970.

Richard Cerf, S/T, 1990.

Yoshifumi Hayashi - La Jeune Mariee D'un Materialiste Enceinte De Cerveaux, 1994

Favourite erotica book in general

Romain Slocombe, City Of the Broken Dolls, 1997. All of Slocombe’s books focus on paintings or photos of women wearing casts. Eyepatches, bandages, and crutches, usually bound to hospital beds or under bright neon lights as they would walk through the city's dark underbelly. Healing and trauma as fetishism.

An artwork you would own? Do you have a dream group show you would curate? (artistic dream blunt rotation)

When it comes to works that I would exhibit in my house, I strongly prefer American folk art. Bill Traylor, Howard Finster, Eddie Arning, any sort of objects adorned in the Tole painting style (of which my great-grandmother was internationally famous for making), tramp art carvings, antique 1920s quilts and 1800s primitive chairs and frames. Things that, outside the artists who I name-dropped, with some dedication and persistence, I can curate myself through estate sales and abandoned houses.

How do we protect physical media?

Make copies.

How does your archive influence other people? How would you like it to?

I have had a lot of people tell me I had introduced them to something that changed their worldview, or influenced them to make their own art or curate their own collection. That’s what I want to do.

Favourite architectural style: Post-modernism, Gothic revivalism or Playboy mansion.

I enjoy a lot of Federalism, Georgian, Gothic Revivalism, Greek Revivalism, and Victorian architecture that can be seen in the coastal southeast.

No Bra has a party to not go to, and she works harder at not going than most people work at going. Her own diagnosis of "Munchausen"...the compulsion to inflate celebrity affiliations and countercultural achievements, obscure bands, rare slash non-existent STDs, and not caring if the facts hold.

(No Bra Calling)

Is life how you imagined it as a child?

No, because I didn’t know any of the things I’m now doing existed, let alone that I could be doing them.

(No Bra Live. Editor's own photo)

Describe the new music video for your single

(Ashland Mines, Sophia Lamar, Denée Francis, Whitney Mallet in 18th floor)

It’s about me being unable to decide whether to go to a certain celebrity party in Chelsea, NYC, imagining walking there and what it’s going to be like (people dancing awkwardly - the party never really seems to take off), and being caught in an elevator with intensely chatting socialites and celebrities who are giving me funny looks because I’m not one of them. Then it goes into a more general section about not having the motivation or cash to participate in the body perfection culture this party seems to represent (this part is not serious). In the end, I never make it there.

(socialites/celebrities on 18th floor)

DOES FAME CHANGE PEOPLE?

PROBABLY!

Why should people see you perform?

I heard it’s supposed to be very “intense” and “maximum energy”.

Define the term “Munchausen” and also tell me where and when the best place to listen to Nina Hagen is.

(No Bra "Munchausen" record cover, photo by Slava Mogutin)

“Munchausen” is a compulsion to show off and lie about things like celebrity affiliations and countercultural achievements, such as playing in obscure bands or catching rare/non-existent stds, and not caring if you’re getting the facts wrong. At some point it doesn’t really matter if any of it is true.

The bit about Nina Hagen is actually only partial “Munchausen” - she turned up at my house once when I lived in Camden - one of my flatmates was friends with her and had been babysitting her kid when they all lived in a squat together some years previously.

Who is the enemy?

Greed.
Neoliberalism.

What is in a name? Where does “No Bra” come from?

The name came from a cover of the now online-only “Daily Sport” softporn mag, saying “Rachel Stevens with No Bra”. [insert image?] We liked the simplicity of the name and the bad grammar - I didn’t really know about the various connotations of the term “no bra” in anglo culture at the time.

(Daily Sport Cover)

Is Page three, as a mindset, quintessentially british?

I see what you’re getting at - apparently it was only introduced in 1970 by Rupert Murdoch though who is Australian tho?

What would your uniform be for eternity?

(No Bra being undecided) Mini skirt, trainers, heels in bag, bomber jacket - adapted for climate change.

Does a stage occlude reality or create reality?

It creates reality.

What does Hollywood mean to you?

It’s a place in Los Angeles. It’s also a specific way of telling stories in film that is reflective of a certain 20th century American/western ideology, centred around maintaining traditional power structures, Freud-inspired psychology and binary thinking.

Where is…the original…in music

Originality starts as soon as you’re writing about what’s important to you specifically instead of copying things. Are you asking me what music nowadays is original? I feel like most music i hear is original!

(Kembra Pfahler djing at Gay Vinyl/photo by Susanne Oberbeck)

In 2011, you started the weekly Gay Vinyl Club, how do your memories of that time shape up?

(Tigga Calore and DeSe Escobar at Gay Vinyl/photo by S.O; No Bra and Honor Titus at Gay Vinyl/photo by Shayne Oliver; No Bra, Arca and Shayne Oliver at Gay Vinyl/photo by Brian Marrero)

​​It was amazing because of the range of really talented DJs and performers we were lucky to have - the idea was to encourage experimentation and let everybody do what they wanted with no rules, besides it was a free party on Tuesdays, so there was no pressure..There was this really amazing energy - it felt like everyone was coming together for some kind of shared mission of sonic/cultural anarchy. Arca recently told me she thinks that Gay Vinyl “shifted the culture” via the quote “creative and emotional fusion that happened during the party”, and it’s where she learned to DJ.

The party also attracted a really mixed crowd, who were generally open to anything musically. I remember one time there were only these two kids left in the club, body-popping across the benches and floor to Coil’s “Where Are You?” for ages, then one looked up, going “i wrap my last kiss in a bandage” - what??”

How is it to work with Bruce LabRUCE?

It’s great! Bruce is a lovely, generous and hilarious person who has maintained his punk ethos to and has an encyclopedic knowledge of movies!

Curator, writer...Fiona Alison Duncan is the author of "Act Like You Know Me" and founder of the literary event "Hard To Read" as well as an author of the biography of the late and great pioneering artist Pippa Garner. HSR reviewed her most recent Hard To Read, held at Variety Arts Theatre (formerly the Friday Morning Club–a clubhouse for women). READ IT HERE.

In discussing Hollywood's hometown, LA, she says, "LA is a phoenix in the process of dying to be reborn right now anyway" and who better to let us know the metabolics of becoming a celebrity....There is a system, a clout economy, a play-to-play aspect to it, but there’s also chance, fate, timing, talent, beauty, mass prejudice, and a willingness to let go and be read by others."

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Thoughts on fan-fiction and literary theory?

I’ve made fan t-shirts and held fan meetings in honour of of Fanny Howe and have been going to war--gossiping publicly--about the alt-right’s self-serving appropriations of the late French literary theorist René Girard. Both Howe and Girard write towards God.

Do you think that writing ought to be ‘hard to read’?

Any form can be purposeful. An internal motto for Hard to Read is “Read is a word that can be read in more than one way.”

Are driverless cars ‘un-American’?

I started taking Waymo-that’s California’s driverless rideshare company--in LA last year because I was sick of being harassed by male Uber/Lyft drivers. I’ve set my rideshare apps to “quiet mode--” don’t talk to me mode--but that doesn’t stop these guys from blabbing on about their personal problems and fantasies of personal success, the script or app that’ll make them rich in no time, the sexy parties they go to between rides... The more they talk about themselves, the less they pay attention to the road. Driverless cars became the safer choice, a lesser evil for me personally.

I’ve taken several people’s Waymo virginities; I play the Amadeus soundtrack, and people lose their minds. If the world weren’t so dystopian, we’d be in awe over driverless cars; they’re a sign of the future we’ve been waiting for. If only they looked like pumpkins, horse-drawn carriages, or giant cats.

I recently started driving myself again, and I take public transit, so Waymos remain a treat and one that I do associate with America because of the complicit glee they give me, similar to the pleasure of watching the noughties reality show The Girls Next Door--for the girls, knowing it’s Playboy propaganda, knowing about Hugh Hefner’s misdeeds.

I’d trade all the cars in the world, and one of my own legs (from the knee down), for high-speed trains and bicycle lanes across the Americas. Those are tragically un-American because of the car and oil industries.

You do a lot of work to create events, communities, publications- do you feel a sense of duty to do so?

Yes.

Do artists have a responsibility to other artists? **

People have a responsibility to life and death, to humans, animals, rocks, the sky, language.

What makes a social practice? Is it any different from a structure?

An image from my childhood has been coming back to me lately. The park lawns in Montreal were covered in these wildflowers I was told were weeds: dandelions. In their yellow flower stage, you had the makings of crowns and jewellery. Then they’d ripen into fluffy white spheres. I thought they were even more beautiful at this stage and was obsessed with blowing on them and dispersing the fluff, the seed pods, which I understood would make more flowers grow. I think a lot of what I do is like this: gathering, plucking, making chains, dressing up, dispersing things.

Is there any use in the term ‘literary fiction’?

I never use it.

Is experimental a genre?

I wouldn’t have it as a section in my bookstore.

What did you last argue with someone you loved about?

My fear of being taken advantage of, i.e. having my time wasted.

How does one become a celebrity?

There is a system, a clout economy, a play-to-play aspect to it, but there’s also chance, fate, timing, talent, beauty, mass prejudice, and a willingness to let go and be read by others.

What is the difference between a celebrity and a cause célèbre?

The editor in me wants to say that a celebrity is a person while a cause célèbre is an idea or an event--a scandal, a movement--but they can be the same. Luigi Mangione is both. Pippa Garner was both. Chris Kraus has been both. Angela Davis, both. Normcore was a cause célèbre. Who’s a celebrity who isn’t a cause célèbre? They’d have to represent very little but not too little. Even Kim K. is like a cause célèbre for celebrity itself.

Exquisite Mariposa, your first novel won the Lambda award for Bisexual Fiction, what are your favourite bisexual characters? Furthermore, what is bisexual fiction?

My bisexual awakening was the character of Mel (played by Rachel True) in Gregg Araki’s Nowhere but the truth is I’m more like Dark Smith (James Duval), longing for Mel. Ai Yazawa is my most recent bi revelation; there’s George from her manga Paradise Kiss, whose bisexuality is said to be philanthropic, and the Nanas, who are closeted to themselves, comp het heartbreak. The bi characters I relate to most, besides the Nanas, are Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) in Personal Best and Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) from the L Word. Joe Apollonio and Callie Hernandez are my favorite real life bisexual characters. I also met these two guys recently, very handsome, who previously dated women and now are a couple. They sleep with girls together. I wish I could be them. I’d also love to be Middle Flake, who I’ve been told is very loveable. Her bisexuality is so casual, instinctual, unencumbered by the shame and internalized misogyny that’s wasted my time. Middle’s one of the protagonists of the novel I’ve been writing for the last three years.

Fuck, Marry, Kill: London (Ontario); LA; NYC

Fuck London, Ontario / Marry New York / Kill LA because I could never harm an underdog like the Canadian city I was born in but have no memory of (we left London when I was one) and because LA is a phoenix in the process of dying to be reborn right now anyway. I got engaged in New York last November.

Is life how you imagined as a kid?

What age were you when you started thinking about the future? I’m trying to remember.

What is your relationship to your schizophrenic device?

Life-like, a mixed bag. I don’t think I would’ve traveled alone as much as I did in my twenties if it weren’t for Maps and I probably wouldn’t be here, answering these questions, if it weren’t for the device--that’s the good stuff. The ownership of it all, the data extraction and data centers, the child-labor cobalt mining and water wastage, the addictive algorithms, algorithmic manipulations, shadow banning and surveillance, the unfettered concentration of wealth and power, the broligarchy--all that is fucked, public enemy number 1.

what does hollywood mean to you?

The Boulevard: youtu.be/RVvGRIxAu9I
The Dream: youtu.be/XRh2L7tJqcI

What has Pippa Garner left you? in life and in love and in art?

I hold the keys to her archives and have the geolocation of her "natural" burial site. She was buried in an eco-shroud in the ground. We didn't take her implants out. They won't decompose. Picture her skeleton, implants, and body jewellery (her pussy was heavily pierced) in the deep soil of NorCal. I Killed Pippa Garner is the working title for our story—another book. She left me with a signed contract that said, " Write whatever."

When he’s tired of being told to sit down and be a Good Fucking Boy by Kylie, Timothée Chalamet enjoys being cucked by dominartist Jill Westwood. So much so, in fact, that he asked her to add him to her roster. She declined, because she’s retired now and making art about desiring eschatology in a way Luca Guadagnino won't know shit about. Grow up Twinky!

Jill’s videos, photographs and archive installs are about fucking insofar as Jaws is about a shark. Early work began with liquid latex “second skin” garments she’d sell under pseudonyms – Fetisch or Die and Fetisch World Domination – and performances in her industrial female duo Fistfuck, but now, an art-psychotherapist (people have always wanted her help I guess), she works backwards, restructuring past performances, power relationships, examining ecstasy and violence, the body and the self. Showing at :)) Glasgow’s :)) David Dale Gallery, :// Marseille’s :// Giselle Books* – even :{ :{ east london’s :{ :{ Neven Gallery.

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TC Do you like art?

JW In 1983 when I was 23 years old I wrote this artist statement:

To portray the metaphysical side of human nature.
To establish a subconscious link between myself / others.

In the confused time in which we live. I am aware of the kind of despair I portray and it’s not without remorse that I decided to do so. There is no mistake, it is something on which I have staked everything. I believe in all the threats of the invisible. I am fighting the invisible itself. Applying myself to unearthing some secrets. What I want to expose is this mass of desires, dreams, illusions and beliefs, which has resulted in this lie, no one believes any longer. I would aim to revive some images, obvious images, that are not tainted with continued disillusionment. To succeed in showing the mind’s obscure, hidden, unrevealed secrets and aspects by a sort of real projection. Not aiming to create an illusion of things which do not exist. Aiming to make scenarios indestructible, irrefutable. No single gesture must be void of the fatality of life. I grope blindly towards an ideal. I partly know what I want and how to accomplish it. But I believe a chance, a miracle will occur and reveal to us all, that which we still do not know.

TC Does your own art hurt or heal you?

JW I’m interested in the parts of ourselves we’d rather disown: our capacity for cruelty, selfishness, envy or dominance, alongside tenderness, generosity and care. If my work heals, it’s not because it offers comfort. If it hurts, it’s not because it seeks to wound. I hope it creates enough space for people to encounter something true about themselves, however uncomfortable that might be. That’s where empathy begins.

TC When you think about your tombstone, what do you think it looks like?

JW My first thought was Damien Hirst’s ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ along with Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. Last year my dear friend and long-standing collaborator Antal Nemeth died. Standing by the grave of his ashes in Berlin as the church bell tolled just for him, I unexpectedly found profound beauty in this ritual. I thought, how funerals belong to the living. The finality of death itself remains unimaginable.

TC Is sex like death, or is death akin to sex? Which do you think about more?

JW Both deserve reverence, tenderness and respect; both require surrender, vulnerability and trust. But I think about sex more than death. Not simply as an act, but as a force. For me, eros isn’t simply about sex. It’s about the erotics of knowing and loving life.

TC What do you think about the kink scene in London, and is there any hope?

JW I don’t think I know what “kink” means. I lived through an exploratory phase where fetish practices were underground, socially hidden and unaccepted (1980s). The music, fashion, art and night club scenes crossed over giving rise to a new wave of intersecting contexts, an experimental space. Labels often obscure lived experience. It’s possible that exploring frightening experiences within a context of trust stretches our humanity in ways that expand human consciousness and its mattering in the world.

TC What are you listening to? I wish I could have seen your industrial noise performances Fistfuck (1981-81)

JW Recently I’ve been immersed in listening to Zos Kia preparing a film reel for their performance at VOD. Those Fistfuck performances have taken on something of a mythic quality. From the inside they felt very raw and dangerously precarious. We wanted to discover what performance could do in those contexts, pushing things over edges to find out what happened when sound, body and audience were pushed into unfamiliar territory. I'm intrigued that the energy of Fistfuck has such an afterlife, I’m interested in what those performances were asking more than in the mythology that's grown around them. Although I’m happy to milk their dubious glory now. Hahaha!

TC Favourite worst nightmare?

JW My motto with my long-standing collaborator Antal Nemeth has always been: Love is the Law, Fear is the Key.

TC Do you like ContraPoints?

JW I had to look this up, and yes, I do. I’m drawn to brave people willing to explore beneath appearances. She seems interested in complexity, contradiction and in the instability of certainty.

Dream artistic orgy/sex marathon/ smoke circle.

JW My first thought was a tantric liaison with Bowie. Then I thought what about a fantasy mix of all these ways to be intimate with my favourite people? A gathering of those who have enchanted, influenced or transformed me. Something dreamlike, a beautifully, sensitive exchange of bodies, minds and spirits, so I am imagining an uncensored unfolding, such as you get in dream states, that is timeless and melts from inspiring conversations into sensuous touch that flow into mass-orgasmic splendour. WOW! Seismic Sex Magic. That’s a great fantasy, that could change the world. An erotics of friendship, imagination and aliveness. Thanks for unleashing that thought.

Timmy Tam Juliette, or Justine? And if the latter, do you think Justine ever experienced pleasure, and is therefore an unreliable narrator?

JW This was printed in ID magazine in 1984 to accompany a photograph of me dressed in black latex, leather and stiletto shoes: Dominatrix Vixen “She’s a libertine… “in pursuit of pleasure totally” her alter ego is Juliette a Marquis de Sade character. “My outfit is sexual – involving every aspect of sexuality.” Reading this now makes me smile.

When I made this statement, I was very clear in my desire to find and claim my power. As a young, working-class woman in the 1980s, I felt this was necessary. This was an era of extreme everyday sexism and misogyny, when the Yorkshire Ripper was still haunting public consciousness and Benny Hill embodied what passed for mainstream entertainment. These days I admire my daring boldness and punk spirit; in exploring the sphere and language of De Sade, fetish and transgression, it was a way of stepping into territory usually reserved for men. It was also a way of exploring the frightening capacities in all of us, and of trying to understand the extremes of human experience. De Sade interested me because transgression can expose how power is constructed and maintained. Fetishism can exaggerate social roles until they begin to fracture. My thinking has evolved to understand power as agency rather than domination.

I am not sure how Justine experienced her plight. I can’t imagine she experienced pleasure in the conventional sense. But trauma has a complicated relationship with desire, and fetishism can sometimes become a way of transforming suffering into a strategy for survival.

Marty Supreme Are you happy? Are you single? Can you read me a poem?

JW I recently wrote this poem in Marseille around the opening of an exhibition titled ‘Everything is NOW’ at Giselle’s Books (4 July-16 Aug 2026). This might answer these few queries.

Everything is NOW
Everything vibrates

Skin remembers
Blood feels

Spit
Piss
Sweat
Tears
Shit
Spunk
Menstrual blood

Everything is sacred matter
Every act is ritual

Language is a body
A vast cosmic landscape

Touch it
Feel it
It feels you

Love is a potent magic
Love is a political act
It is how we become one another

We leap
Strapped together
Scared and ecstatic
Already falling

Patti Smith is laughing Jean Genet is smoking in the wings Donna Summer duets with Bowie Singing another QUEER DIMENSION into BEING

Our saints are among us
They are within us
We are they
They are us

Every touch
Every wound
Every dance
Every intimate moment

Every BODY that refused to disappear

WE CONSECRATE EACH OTHER

Through presence
Through friendship
Impossible LOVE

We leave ourselves in one another
Like sacred relics

Still warm
Still breathing

This is how power returns

NOT AS DOMINATION - AS DEVOTION

NOT MINE - OURS

Everything is sacred
Everything is breathing
Everything is NOW

We are already falling…

TIMMY TTTTTTT Has god ever answered your prayers?

JW Making work is an act of sustained attention. Like sex-magic, I hold an image, a feeling or a desire as clearly as I can. I invest myself in it completely, then in an act of transmission into the unknown, I let it go. Sometimes, much later, something unexpected returns from the world and it feels as though your prayer has been answered and that can feel miraculous.

Dirk Diggler reportage-d their mega cafe oto gig here. Pregnancy are going to lead the roaring 20's, as Chloée says, the evil warlocks and the supernatural are dragging away the world, so we must scream and make a new one! Lfg! Pregnant with ambition, verve at the forking paths of art and music...

Is life what you expected when you were a kid?

G: yes. I was aware that i’d have more responsibilities and life would get more stressful as i aged and that happened. i think that’s a neutral thing and somehow i still feel like the summer of my life has yet to begin.

C: As a child, I was immersed in playing with Barbies, creating stories and entire worlds. I also grew up with a lot of ghosts in my house, so there was this supernatural element that seemed to participate in the world around me—an invisible layer of the unknown. It gave me the sense that anything is possible, even if we can’t see it but can still feel it.

My first day of secondary school was cruel and bizarre. The world I had created in make-believe—once colorful and beautiful—shifted into a dark folklore, painted with nightmares and warlocks. Even then, I knew there had to be more to life than this and there certainly is. But again, it is a world that I have created through the act of making art and music - it's definitely a form of resistance to it all.

However, I didn’t think that, when I grew up, the world presented to me would resemble the one we’re living in now. I dreamed that after hardship, there would be a light at the end of the tunnel for everyone—a future filled with peace, warmth, and sunlight. But instead, it feels as though the evil folklore of warlocks and the underworld that I had feared has become our reality.

Still, I hold on to hope that the world will eventually heal.. as the sky falls and the day breaks.

Did the mix of the driven hyper pop sound and punk/hardcore vocals happen immediately when you started working together, or did it evolve over time?

C: I sort of had this sense of knowing beforehand... I don't know. I just knew it would be a good idea when Governor Vomit and I joined forces... we live not too far from eachother so it was an organic partnership.. we would listen to music all the time and show one another a lot of different things.

I used to perform a lot more, but I focused behind the scene as a director over the last five years.. which i love with all my heart. But I returned to it when working with Nkisi in 2024 unlocked performing again - felt more urgent somehow, that it has been important to create a direct response to the world we are currently living in in a live way alongside film-making. its been a cathatric experience.

G : At first Chloée was just gonna do guest vocals for one of my shows - so it was mostly a sound i was already doing- as i’ve gotten to know her more and we’ve shared musical influences it’s really expanded what i felt like i could do with the beats. i feel like a lot of the production is me trying to impress chloée and make beats that are worth her vocals.

Who are you currently listening to?

G: total wife, glockteau twins, and trick daddy

C: Reject All latest mix on NTS & Katie Shannon NTS shows <3

What do you wear when you want to be comfortable onstage?

G: A belt

C: Barefoot

Exhibition curation with anyone, dead or alive.

G: I don’t like art

C: Ruth Angel Edwards, Adam Gallangher, Solomon Garçon , Dan Mitchell, Abella D'adoro , Keira Fox, Derek Ridgers, Chelsea Young, David Hoyle, Mike Kelly, Andy Warhol, Sylive Flury, Valie Export, Liz johnson Arthur, Steven Cuffie, Eric Kroll, Ivana Vladislava and myself - would be a pychedllic exlopsion.

Why should people come to your gigs?

G: I'm fun, and the music is good.

C: If you're in the mood for love... and some unadulterated, hard hitting yet beautiful production...

Worst to fave artwork?

G: I don’t like art

C: I wish I could find a picture of the worst painting, it is, in fact, my own painting. Truly diabolical...I dont think I can find a picture but I have it imprinted in my mind... forever. It is shocking artwork I made at art school that I presented to a crit and it was soooo shit... I was kidding myself... I remember I made after this comment by a tutor - 'not everything has to be epic' and tried to do something minimal... it was rotten... truly rotten. Imagine pigs flying but shit.

I can only do artists I love not really ones i don't lol

Barbra Kruger; Jenny Holzer; Stephen Cuffie Portraits, Matt Gess, Ruth Angel Edwards, Alice Fraser

A historical figure you’d dom?

C: King Henry the 8th

G: Ulysees S. Grant

Did you have Tumblr? If so, what kind of image would you reblog? Did u use it to watch porn or not?

C: Yes, I did - probs some unknown from the 80's with a lot of make-up on and cool hair, smoking

G: Yes, mostly Simon Pegg

We gotta ask the question....... I mean, we don't have to, but we are going to.... How did you name your band?

G: Chloée was doing guest vocals for my show. We got really merry, i really had to take a piss, and while taking a piss i thought we should keep doing stuff after that show, and pregnancy would be a really good name for us.

C: We usually rehearse and make our music in Governor's studio in the basement... and we always have a good time... I remember Governer Vomit returning from the loo and, in pure ecstasy saying PREGNANCY!!! pregnancy is the name... it was genius and totally made sense. i think he fell pregnant in the loo or something... we were both pregnant that day... the rest is history.

Is there much of a difference between the NYC audience and how things go down in London?

G: Not really. It was really fun.

C: I would say its not fully different but its more how nyc is different to london in terms of the art music scene... in london its merged in nyc its seperated with a few cross over.. but the feeling is very similar in both... <3

Did u have to give Governor Vomit a do's and don't's guide to London?

C: I wanted re write the urban myth that London and the Uk has bad food...I know it's not true but it has a bad rep in NYC and governer also was believing it... the food in london is wicked. and yum!!! So gave a lot of recommendations to him and we had some delicious food from greggs to french house lol...

G: Chloée guided me really well with where to eat. Turns out black pudding is amazing.

What's next in your pregnancy?

G: actually release music.

C: We are going to make some wicked music videos... to go alongside those releases...

I HATE WAR. Babedrea33's irreverent blog account (DISCLAIMER: nottin irreverent about hating war) I don't know what drives the vibe accounts of today's economy, but this grid is divided through aesthetically lead horizontals. We adapt the questions of Andy's timeless bathmatt3000 interview to get to grips with IhateWarmag.

Babedrea collects images that are attached to greater timelines of timeless violence. An archaeologist by training, maybe, dusting off the patina on tumblr images to feed them shining into our algo. We first met discussing the imperialism of mythic atlantis on a podcast I'd heard, and by met I mean Dm'd. Hollywood prefers the idea of her image discoveries parallel to the era-shaping analysis of lost civilisations - where codexes came to redefine the contemporaneous spirit.

After all, is that not all we crave from a tumblr blog?

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What is image archiving for you and how does it different from @ihatewarmag?

I think that the two go hand in hand somewhat, altho image archiving formally takes care to find context, names, dates and attach them to greater timelines, ihatewar is about dusting off tumblr flickr google search deepcuts and unearthing them before a grander singularity collapses the internet on itself and things become impossible to find or leave forever like blingee among others. In this way I do think it’s archival because I think there are images I collect which are attached to these greater timelines of timeless violence.

Trend predictions for 2027 (apocalypse theme).

William Blake off a phone and cocacola gnosticism

If Silent Hill comes out with a new game, where would you want it to be set?

Cortázar-style conflations of reality with echoes of the past. In “La Noche Boca Arriba,” a man is severely injured in a motorcycle accident in Mexico. He’s in the hospital and lucid dreaming about a reality where he’s on the run from a group of Aztec warriors who want to sacrifice him to the sun god. He’s finding it harder and harder to wake up again in the hospital. Was he ever actually in the hospital at all or dreaming hauntologically of surgery? Take Silent Hill to ancient Maine, USA. We want to dream of surgery.

Favourite ancient archaeological site/period/excavation?

Chavín de Huántar. First excavated by Julio C. Tello in 1919. Traces of Chavín’s art style are all across ancient Peru but it isn’t really certain why this art style was so widespread. A religious center for sure, reliefs across the site depict shamans snuffing hallucinogens with jaguars and snuff tube artifacts are found everywhere. But the real crown jewel is the subterranean labyrinth of 35 interconnected tunnels beneath the site. Peaks and pokes of sunlight tickle through the ceilings of the tunnels where we infer that shamans would begin a religious journey to the underground central Lanzón–a monolithic sculpture 15 feet tall depicting the fanged deity of Chavín. The chamber was architecturally built to produce and amplify the sounds of the ground above. Archaeoacoustically, the features of this underground passageway seem to encourage the existence of a hallucinogenic journey to the center where shamans above ground might intentionally play tricks with the lights and sounds above you so you may stare awe-stricken at the Lanzón once you reach it. Perhaps you fall to your knees. Perhaps you were already on your knees.

Insert Favourite Meme ever.

What’s your screen time?

Daily average = 5.5 hours on phone.

Relationship to your schizophrenic device?

I know when it is trying to be my evil twin. That’s how you win. But sometimes me and twin stay locked in.

How would you describe your iG page? Curation? Moodboard? Dump?

Posting feel like eyes roll back into head and tongue loll out and you start speaking a prophecy and then the post becomes a multipart globule of brain chunkage enfilade reliant upon a Markov chain of network understanding.

I would say you are a niche Tumblr type source - what page did you grow up on?

I used to love these 2 blogs of this couple that lived in Antwerp I can’t remember their usernames but they broke up at some point and I stopped watching. I also really loved @sandsvendor100 but you have to remember I joined Tumblr when I was 12.

Dream Blunt Rotation?

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sue de Beer, Ana Mendieta

What do you do for $?

Frost Children creative director + nightlife photographer + social media intern + freelance graphic design = my current lifestyle
Looking for more work tho hmu

What do you spend most $ ?

Looking for more work tho hmu

What Foot Tattoo would you get?

Tattoo from @cheaptruth9891999 of the staff god at Chavín on the sole of my right foot that takes up the whole foot. Or Anna Opperman drawing.

Who are you currently listening to?

The Tear Garden, Strawberry Switchblade, Kino, Mice Parade, Country Teasers,Frost Children, Momus, Air, Malcolm McLaren, Lolina, Hail the Sun, Pulp, The Legendary Pink Dots, Suicide, Sparks, Corridos Ketamina, Morrissey, DJ Hoes Mad, Hanin Elias, John Maus, Strictly Ballroom, NEW YORK, Psychic TV, Cranes, Silver Jews, Television Personalities, Orange Juice, iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook, Lento Violento, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin

Why should people follow you?

Be such a dope soul that people crave your vibes.

Favourite Porn website?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Favorite Account on Ig?

@chair_shibarior @agent_labradeur

If IG was deleted tomorrow would you be ok darling?

No. If Tumblr was deleted tho, I’d die.

Pic of Feet (can be in socks):

all

Bathmat3000 is the second generation of online feminine mind-readers and her account can be found here. Click to understand the glamorous women in your life, click to try but you will never understand...

I will always wanna scroll Bathmat3000 because ummmmmmmmmmmmm

I will always wanna scroll this page because I'm model-pretty stonergirl and blogging is my bread and butter.

I will always wanna scroll this page because sometimes I see my little girl self in the affirmation posts and sometimes I see my future self who is glam like me but has more 💲.

there's no credit on the images because its posted for the feeling

The only straight man who I follow who also follows bathmat is Ariel Pink...

We sent Andy to ask the questions because she's elite.

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HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR: Bath Mats are gross. Is that why that’s your username?

I was standing on a bathmat when I chose my username.

If your boyfriend went to the strip club; would you break up with him?

Probably #leovenus

Would you have gone to Epstein’s Island?

Y’all wanna know what like the BEST filling maybe of all time? Definitely of all time, the best feeling of all time is when - okay. You know the blent you smoked this morning? The one you woked up to roll. That one. Okay. And then but you only smoke half of it. Okay. And then you work all day long. You go to fuckin work, you do the fuckin job real fuckin good. You’re like-you’re the best. You do everything you boss asks of you. You are real fuckin cordial with your coworkers. All the customers love you. All these custies come in and they just like they think you’re the greatest. You’re the greatest of all time. You worked all day long. In theEeEnd, you come home, and you smoke the other half of that blent. That’s the greatest feeling ever ‘cause it’s just like so…it’s…this is some old-ass shit too! Like…I’m a grown-ass woman, I’m an adult. And this is my laife. That’s, theHEH, that’s the breakdown of my everyday life for y’all. It’s……incredible. My fat…my fat fabuhlous life. Iiii’m about to get so fucking high, too. Sooo hiiiigh. I’m gonna li-should I light it on camera? Should she light it on CAMERA? Hell yeah, she should light it on camera. Actually, I can’t because I gotta, um, I gotta use both of my hand. I’m using my hand to hold my phone. Oh my god, that’s not, uh, that’s not me, I’m not that fat. Speaking of that, I need to work out. But the thANG is is that I feel like I walk so much, like, living here, you knoooow. Like, I just can-I can’t. I don’t wanna work out. I wanna like - shit. I wanna, like, get back actIIIVE? Like, maybe, like…nobody wanna be in a…no one wanna do…no one wanna play with me. No one wanna play volleyball with me. No one wanna play fuckin nerd shit with me. Everybody I-Everybody I know just wanna get fucked up. I need some better friends. I need people who wanna do shit, you know? Like, I don’t wanna fuckin just get fucked up all the time. And like…that’s a waste of your laife. Like, I wanna be active. I wanna snowboooard or whatever. Oh my-I’m so high already, you guys. That’s the per-this is the perks of life.

Re: Epstein he used the term Pizza Party; aka Pizza to describe girls / shipments probably. What would be your cover name for a secret operation?

Y’all wanna know what like the BEST filling maybe of all time? Definitely of all time, the best feeling of all time is when - okay. You know the blent you smoked this morning? The one you woked up to roll. That one. Okay. And then but you only smoke half of it. Okay. And then you work all day long. You go to fuckin work, you do the fuckin job real fuckin good. You’re like-you’re the best. You do everything you boss asks of you. You are real fuckin cordial with your coworkers. All the customers love you. All these custies come in and they just like they think you’re the greatest. You’re the greatest of all time. You worked all day long. In theEeEnd, you come home, and you smoke the other half of that blent. That’s the greatest feeling ever ‘cause it’s just like so…it’s…this is some old-ass shit too! Like…I’m a grown-ass woman, I’m an adult. And this is my laife. That’s, theHEH, that’s the breakdown of my everyday life for y’all. It’s……incredible. My fat…my fat fabuhlous life. Iiii’m about to get so fucking high, too. Sooo hiiiigh. I’m gonna li-should I light it on camera? Should she light it on CAMERA? Hell yeah, she should light it on camera. Actually, I can’t because I gotta, um, I gotta use both of my hand. I’m using my hand to hold my phone. Oh my god, that’s not, uh, that’s not me, I’m not that fat. Speaking of that, I need to work out. But the thANG is is that I feel like I walk so much, like, living here, you knoooow. Like, I just can-I can’t. I don’t wanna work out. I wanna like - shit. I wanna, like, get back actIIIVE? Like, maybe, like…nobody wanna be in a…no one wanna do…no one wanna play with me. No one wanna play volleyball with me. No one wanna play fuckin nerd shit with me. Everybody I-Everybody I know just wanna get fucked up. I need some better friends. I need people who wanna do shit, you know? Like, I don’t wanna fuckin just get fucked up all the time. And like…that’s a waste of your laife. Like, I wanna be active. I wanna snowboooard or whatever. Oh my-I’m so high already, you guys. That’s the per-this is the perks of life.

Insert Favourite Meme ever.

Did Catherine Zeta Jones actually post this?

In my heart she did

What’s your screen time?

Bad.

Relationship to your schizophrenic device?

Homoerotic codependent female friendship

Where do you scroll and find most?

Mostly tumblr but the gals on pinterest have been resonating w me lately.

How would you describe your iG page? Curation? Moodboard? Dump?

Curation of what I feel or what I think someone else feels or what I think everyone's feeling or something I noticed in someone I don't even know.

Have you ever posted cancellable content?

No I'm perfect and don't make mistakes

Favourite Porn website?

https://m.ok.ru/video/903023692335

Favorite Account on Ig?

baileyjmills99

Favourite Youtube Channel?

lushiousmassacr

If IG was deleted tomorrow would you be ok darling?

Actually, no 🪽

Selfie:

Pic of Feet ( can be in socks):

Ok but yall are only getting one foot.

Dream Blunt Rotation?

Timmy Thick, Emma Mae Jenkins, Woah Vicky, Slavoj Zizek, and my gay ex bf

My name is also Andrea. It means brave. Are you?

Yes and no and yes and no.

What do you do for $?

Suffer

What do you spend most $ ?

Shows and alcohol.

Favourite fast food in Texas?

The fast food here is rly not that good. Growing up in PR showed me that nothing compares to the church’s chicken over there.

Texas Lit or You want to move away?

Ive always wanted to leave but I luv my ppl here so idk:/

What Foot Tattoo would you get?

None, it'd feel ugly.

Who are you currently listening to?

Kesha, beverly hills mom, blonde suppermacy, eatmewhileimhot, a lot of 80s music

Why should people follow you?

To See Within A Beautiful Latina Balkan Woman's Heart

HSR correspondent Eileen Tweaking Slightly chatted with Jawnino at Exit, Glasgow. It was packed, no one on their phones, etc. Half the conversation was lost to the wind/redacted, but he told HSR he was the laziest artist in the UK and put us onto other stuff too. Read below.

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'Nonchalance' is a word often attached to the some of the most contrived, boring fashion people you have ever met. It was used in the RA bio to sell tickets for Jawnino at Exit, Glasgow, but I think that is an inappropriate gloss for an evident, unforced, lack of ego and artistic curiosity for the world, outside the eternal recurring mirror of our For You Page.

Anyway, we are at Exit, a nightclub space taken over by a young man with a vision. I'd spoken to a friend of mine, a professional whistler, fresh off her European tour, who gave a hint to the nightclub's lore. There are the two floors, the upper part used to be an artist studios/strip club and the lower section - which makes up the club - also used to be a strip club, except the lower strip club was dodgier.

There was a staircase going between the two named ‘pigeon world’.

'Why?' I ask.

‘It had dead pigeons in it.'

We speak in the backrooms of the club where everyone seems to be laughing about Jawnino's rangers jacket.

Jawnino: 'They're booing! Someone in here must be supporting rangers. Somebody.’

(There's lore here that's too much to go into right now.)

Jawnino: “We’ll excuse it tonight”

Hollywood Superstar Review: Where would you take a girl on a date?

Jawnino: “Som Saa in Whitechapel, it’s the best Thai food, they do a little 2-4-1 deal.”

(It's loud so we go outside on the street.)

HSR: Laziest Artist in UK right now?*

Jawnino: That's a dark one. I'm going to have to say me.
I just feel like, flow-wise and just, I’m just talking a lot. I’m not really spitting and rapping as hard as a lot of people go. I’m just talking my truth. Like, it's not really a rapping thing. And I feel like I could have more output, so I’d say me.

I mention that HSR are trying to contact Eline Vehrodia.

Jawnino: Yeah, yeah. There's another girl I think you'd tap into. She's called Angel Gray. She just released one song recently. It's called "Outside." She's who I'm fucking with right now, UK-like, female-wise. And obviously BXKS, like, that's my... that's my sister. But like, Angel Gray is tapped.

HSR: First grime record that made an impression on you?

Jawnino: **Skepta, Mike Lowery.

HSR: And then 2026 is the year of...

The Firehorse.

HSR: Firehorse?

Yeah, Firehorse. It's not just a horse, it's the Firehorse.

HSR: It's the Firehorse. What's the Firehorse?

Jawnino: It means more enjoyment, more litness. We're growing up. 2025 was a period where we enjoyed and we take it back, we enjoyed what was going on, we understand. But 2026 is where we let go, unleash, and do our thing.

Hollywood Superstar visits Hannah Taurins studio in Brooklyn. Represented by Theta gallery, Taurins paintings are a step forward for contemporary figuration, which can sometimes fall into the gutter between ironic grotesque john currin derivations and tired imitations of Francis Bacon's phantasmagoria. Taurins captures the archival impulse - media is an ouroborus - with the pechance and kitschness of Audrey Hepburns Funny Face (1957).

Her mannequins, her muses, are drawn from the torn pages of now defunct fashion magazines, or scans from the FIT library. She preserves the flaws of the copier in her pastels and gouache. Inspiration ranges from carefully curated wedding boards on Pinterest, to the editorials of brands like Kiko Kostadinov.

Taurins work, for this editor, when paired with the accelerating relationship between fashion and art, encapsulates the habits of a certain level of online personhood. Mining for information, for images, nostalgic or futuristic, through digital and traditional archival integration.

Hannah Taurins reminds us most of Francis Picabia, "He's such a freak" Taurins says, "I love him".

Her exhibitions, including solo show God, Let me Be Your Instrument (Theta, 2025) and Cabin Pressure (2025) on view at Air Service Basel. are dramturgical, following the rise, hubris and desire of her female protagonists.

Hollywood Superstar

How do you source images? What do you look for? There is a trend at the moment for artists working in both traditional and non-traditional mediums to search for slightly retro, editorial images on Pinterest. It's a new kind of source material. That and the mannequin trend, but I guess models are just mannequins, in a way.

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Hannah Taurins

I’m not above Pinterest - it’s crazy - like for the next show I'm working on a bridal theme, and obviously, Pinterest is perfectly engineered for bridal planning.

You can often tell when the original poster is just a really passionate researcher with a scanner. I like to use libraries at FIT. Thefashionspot.com is a big one too. I follow a bunch of fashion magazine scan accounts on instagram. I used to use Flickr when I was using freakier, niche photos and was more paranoid about copyright. Deviant Art, too.

It’s tough because not every good photo is going to make a good drawing. That’s why I felt challenged by the Kiko Kostadinov images. They were such compelling photos, but hard to translate into compelling images.

With some works I have to take on more responsibility for the “why” of the drawing.

I used to not draw men at all, I just didn’t feel interested in it. This has changed for me recently. Lately I’ve been drawing men in a fantasy lover role! This has been lots of fun for me, and I think is a result of some recent healing. Plus I love men. Maybe before I felt as if to make a successful work I had to embody the subject, and I felt far away from men. But now I just love to put them in as a little vessel for desire.

HS

When you work, you’re drawing from a photocopy of the original photograph, so you're twice removed from the actual photographic scene. Your backgrounds, too, have a semi-abstraction in them, like you’ve captured the detritus on the surface of the photograph, or the glare on the camera lens.

HT

My images are distorted from the magazine. I like the idea of incorporating a glare or translating the glitch that comes with the photocopy. It’s exciting to me that you noticed that. Sometimes the decisions I make with color are a result of my printer running low on ink or something. But even to include a margin or to draw the stack of pages underneath the page with my reference.

HS

Do you feel like there's a trend in figurative painting, or drawing, toward using super niche internet language?

HT

I've felt this way since Tumblr. The source material feels like a natural part of my practice. I had a fashion makeup blog - which I deleted when I was in cringe mode. I pick the images in a way that I can say something about myself. For my last show at Theta, God, Let me be Your Instrument, it was about this groupie. She is following this musician around that she's enamoured by, and she reaches stardom, but then she falls, and she dies. It’s super personal, that story.

I remember in high school making paintings of screenshots from snapchat messages. My teachers hated it! They had no idea why I was doing it. I was fascinated by how my friends and I were communicating with each other.

HS

There is a painting of her called Groupies Live Forever, 2025 where her soul is coming out of her body - she finds herself spiritually reborn. How did the concept for this piece arise?

When I first thought of it, I knew the show would be about rock stars. All the images I had been compiling were fashion images referencing music. I thought the protagonist of the paintings could be a groupie. I did get my heart broken by a musician while making this show. I remember doing a walkthrough at the gallery with a drawing class from Princeton. I turned totally red when I told them the show was about my breakup. It was so vulnerable but that’s how I knew it was right for me to share. What better catalyst for personal transformation than love and heartbreak? This painting is about that. In life if you do it consciously I think one dies and is reborn many times.

HS

So what about the next show, the bride? That’s a kind of another nostalgic kick, bridal couture is such a specific niche but a huge industry, every Pinterest user can recount being accosted with a million bridal mood pages.

HT

I want to do a delusional bride. I’m building the storyline now - what is her character arc? I’m the age my mom was when she got married and had me. I’m curious about the fantasy of the perfect bride and holy union, and the anxieties surrounding that. I feel caught now more than ever between being a sort of perfectly self contained artist for the rest of my life, taking lovers, whatever, and really buying the marriage story.

There’s something there too about Jung’s Animus - the unconscious masculine in a woman. The first work I made with this show in mind was of a pregnant woman. It’s my fantasy about self-fertilization, the result of integrating all parts of oneself and achieving this kind of creative fertility.

HS

How do you feel like your practice and Instagram interact with each other? This idea of looking, being looked at. Your work have these female protagonists that appeal to a gaze - but also to a digital lens. Like, your paintings do well on Instagram. When your refiguring these photocopied images, or painting a steven meisel campaign, do you feel the gaze changes at all?

HT

I used to feel shameful about this, but I no longer do. Making work that does well on Instagram is important to me - fuck it. People have fantasies about what artists are like - my work is about meeting people halfway, creating things. That’s where desire comes in. I think viewers desire something naughty, an insight into me as a person, or into the artwork.

I am often looking for an energy - one for myself and one that I want to bring to the work, as well. It feels so earnest, it's my own creative and sexual desire, and if that's a traditional male gaze…then.

I think you can tell my work is made by a woman. I went to Cooper Union when it wasn’t super fashionable to be making sexy figurative work. It was conceptual work that went down easier there. I’ve gotten a few bad reviews - this vlogger went into my show and talked about this one work, Spread. He comes into the gallery and starts talking about the work, but doesn’t want to be told about it, he’s monologing like:

“I’ve just been seeing images of this painting all over Instagram, and had to come see it myself, it must be a fluke, it collapses modernism and postmodernism into one painting, and theres no way that Hannah Taurins could have been aware she was making such a brilliant move”.

Something about Barnett Newman, lines, abstraction and Courbet’s origin of the world. He just couldn’t give me the compliment. He couldn’t acknowledge the sensuality of the show for one second; he even described the painting as prudish.

Hannah Taurins work installed at Salon (October 16th-19th, 2025) by Hollywood Superstar, Chess Club and Gnossienne Gallery.

HS

Talk to me about your process of making. Do you ever paint from live models? Or only printed images?

I much prefer working from printed images because I can be kind of weird and intense in the studio. I like to get very stoned and listen to the same songs over and over again. I feel moved to draw at odd hours and can’t predict when I need to step away for a walk or a nap or whatever.

When I'm making work, this shift happens. I'll be looking at something and being so present in my body. I find that the hardest thing about my process is to let myself be that present, and when there's someone else in the studio, it's so much harder. I have to completely objectify them. There's a shift between looking at someone as a person in your studio, and breaking them down into shapes and lines.

And that switch doesn't happen when you paint from images?

HT

It’s almost automatic but once it happens, it feels like there is no separation from myself and the image. I am just a vessel for the work. I’m addicted to that space, and have been since I was a kid.

A few weeks ago, when the Frieze Fair came to London town, Hollywood Superstar sat down (in the DM) with a radical and Instagram-powered neo-gallerist to talk about network painting and speedrunning shows with no nation. Here is the interview with Arden Asher-Tate, aka. Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry.

Best group project since Reena Spaulings...it incidentally, or on purpose, has a overlap with the artists. Like Merlin Carpenter. They also don't priotise silly things like spelling, visual aesthetic cohesion, or neo-liberal graphics, much like the editorial over here in Hollywood.

Have you been asked to submit a project? If you haven't, maybe you need to be:

a) more underground

b) less commercially viable

c) worse at instagram

Access the project here.

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PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

Hello Percy Jackson's Mom. I am very glad you have liked exhibits. The project is anarcho nomadic space run by myself, sculptor Arden Asher-Taste.

After schooling I went to New York with very romantic idea of finding group of artists like Franco Polish Black Jean Porno Club.

I found painters who piss in corners and galleries in apartments, but you know these kids pay 3000 dollars now for an apartment? That was the case in New York. In Europe provision and scrappiness push against confines of bureaucratic rules but in Brooklyn my friends wanted art lifestyle outside capitalist careerism. I too wanted no rules but my Visa had run out and my money had run out. So now I am back in Berlin and there are painters who piss in corners here too.

HOLLYWOD SUPERSTAR:

What is there to be gained from nomadism in Today's World?

PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

hen you live nomadic you meet many artists and you become less of a tight ass because you need people to take you to bars and places to sleep. You take the train all over with university rail pass and never graduate and meet many artists and God forbid you see their artwork or you might puke. But you need these friends and they too are contours that help define your own taste.

HSR:

More than travelling between cities, which are all expensive and full of corners of piss- there is travelling through DMs. I have found you coming closer and closer as my friends excitedly report being asked to 'make solo show'. Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry sail the seas of the social fabric to make decisions about programmes? How do you choose?*

PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

I follow back artists if I like their work and usually I ask them to make show. Two hundred artists have been asked to do exhibit, and I wait on images from one hundred more. But there are no tags and sales and no open bar. So the whole anarcho nomadic project space continues as decentralised accelerationist system driven by desire to make show.**

HSR:

It’s iPhone realness. And perhaps a way to solve the problem of recording performance/art. You speedrun the opening: it instantly becomes a memory on an iPhone. It is a collective camera roll. One of the reasons why I admire the practice because it is just so lean. What do you say to the idea that The fat that gets cut out to make your lean gallery practice are the people. That it’s a non human and semi anonymous non event. In this case, you are looking for some purity, no? No messy human ‘buzz’ involved?

PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

I like very much the idea of a speed run. In the states there are massive conferences of streamers who run through video games as fast as possible. They find gaps in wall collision detectors and niche tech to skip cut scenes. Boys in bedrooms spend hours a day breaking the game and finding optimal routes to the endpoint. Reclusive artists like me can watch from my studio in Berlin, and live the route vicariously. I don’t romanticize efficiency programs, but I see value in breaking the game of exhibition and art career.

Now there is need to interrogate networking from the angle of social practice, and while the project cuts out the physical gathering, the event of the iPhone opening is intrinsically social, by means of distribution.

HSR:

One thing that brings your shows together is the printing out of things, the use of printer paper. Do you see any other patterns in what people present to pirates?

PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

Yes. With printing there is cheapness and informality, but also a rich history of expediency. In the same way this space rethinks need for context and infrastructure, many of these artists are challenging material value structures, focusing instead on communicating. Screaming nonsense is also communication. That is the speaking of growing babies.**

HSR:

Do you want to 'break art career' of 'big' artists for a moment? Or is it more important for these 'small' artists to be together?

PIRATES OF THE CARBOMB INFANTRY:

Hito’s show was very good. Over a 10 minute rant the performer linked together Georgia Alliata’s POCBI selfie exhibit, Guzzler, bad Jake Shore work, and her own theoretical oeuvre. These social games of in-jokes, forgery, and trolling are the same strategies the Real Fine Arts artists were playing with Network Painting in the early 2010’s (I use Network Painting from Jana Euler, in how she uses for self/scene-referentiality in her work. Later it was used by Zach Feuer gallery in NYC for the show Context Message, curated by Real Fine Arts.) We are interested in not big or small, but a familial conversation. Everyone points up to their big sister and makes mocking face. That is a part of family love.