Carrère's unconventional study interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw - from cloning to reality TV - a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions
512 pages
it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel
Including critiques of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates
It was also the name of a zine published between 2011 and 2014 that comprised five issues collectively edited by artists Florin Flueras
Siôn Parkinson: Stinkhorn AA Bronson Carrère's unconventional study interweaves lifeSternberg Press, 2024, hardcover, 208 pages, 18. 1 x 24. 7 cm The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above