FROM QUEBEC CITY: two objects by Alexandre Fatta

Bobby Bingling

by Paul Cowdell

A Quiet Mermaid

Collage by Patrick Hourihan
in response to a game proposed by the Paris Surrealist Group

THE SURREALIST GROUP OF THE FAROE ISLANDS MEETING IN DURHAM, UK, Sunday 18th March

The city of Durham welcomes the Surrealist Group of the Faroe Islands to its chilly bosom:

Our overnight accommodation at the College of St. Hild's and St. Bede is keen to greet its Surrealist visitors.

Durham Cathedral flies the Swedish flag.

Emma Lundenmark (Stockholm Surrealist Group) and Merl (SLAG) go in search of the cuckoo-snake on the streets of Durham:

"These things having changed, I arise again":

A GAME TO CELEBRATE LAUTRÉAMONT'S BIRTHDAY, 4th April 2007

Le plagiat est nécessaire. Le progrès l'implique.
Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.

Lautréamont

You are invited to join us in the celebration of Lautréamont's birthday by committing an act of plagiarism.

The act of plagiarism may take any form you wish -- found audio and/or found text and/or found image and/or collage and/or détournement and/or forgery and/or any other variation, experiment or adventure in plagiarism that you can invent.

SLAG will be collating responses to this game for publication on Lautréamont's birthday itself. Material will be accepted in any language. If you would like your own responses to be included, please send them to us no later than 12 midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) on Tuesday 3rd April. All responses received by that time will be collated and published on 4th April as a collective salute to our most delirious forebear.

TWO PAINTINGS BY PATRICK HOURIHAN

The Found Arcanum (2)

The Three of Swords
(A wall in Holborn)
by Paul Cowdell

Demonic Taxus

Photos by Stephen Maddison

Otan Romanesk swims into battle

Photo by Paul Cowdell, interpreted after reading the Leeds Surrealist Group's pamphlet A Quiet Mermaid, reporting the investigation by the Paris Group.