Launch of Spirale #286
Derek Jarman's journey is one of marked by flashes of brilliance, not only for its formal originality and social irreverence, but also for its premature interruption due to AIDS. Avant-garde, exuberant, poetic, and pictorial, his work is as abundant as his life was as an icon of the British underground and tireless advocate for the queer cause. It constitutes a unique and captivating world, much like the garden that the artist created in Kent to live out his final years and conceive his ultimate creations.
Spirale magazine is launching its new issue featuring a dossier, edited by Colin Zouvi, on the British filmmaker Derek Jarman, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1994. Through testimonies, essays, and poetic texts, this dossier delves into the reflective and creative potential of the "Jarman Garden," a cultivated, filmed, narrated, dreamed, queer, and punk garden that was Jarman's work, while situating it within a memory of LGBTQ+ rights struggles.
The launch event will include readings by Nicole Brossard, Matthew Moir, and Mathieu Leroux, followed by a conversation between Catherine Mavrikakis and the Sœurs de la Perpétuelle Indulgence de Montréal.
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