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Surrealism in the Middle East? Punk?

 
 
delacroix
06:33 / 18.10.07
Weird question--anyone know any surrealist movements from / in the Middle East? How about... punk?

I sense a connection.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:57 / 18.10.07
What do you mean by surrealism?
 
 
Olulabelle
21:13 / 18.10.07
I don't understand - do you mean you think punk is a surrealist middle eastern movement? If so I think you should go and read a bit about Malcolm Mclaren or even Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
 
 
TeN
02:52 / 20.10.07
I don't know what you mean by "I sense a connection," but here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2066035,00.html
 
 
Lugue
18:49 / 20.10.07
Are you sure you're not just thinking about Siouxsie & The Banshees?
 
 
Lugue
23:51 / 23.10.07
It was a serious answer. Lyrical and musical references to the Middle East (Arabian Knights, Desert Kisses, Israel), occasional surreal imagery ("He gives birth to swimming horses" or "A huge smiling central face/With eyes and lips cut out/But smiling and eating lots of other lips" come to mind) and a punk background make them a logical enough connector of the three seperate concepts. It ocurred to me you might have them blanked in your memory; twasn't snark, if that's what it came off as.
 
 
johnny enigma
09:05 / 30.11.07
I think Geil Marcus made some sort of theoretical links between punk and surrealism/situationism in "Lipstick Traces". It's a great book which veers about all over the place insanely making all sorts of strange connections that may or may not be valid. Not sure about the middle eastern connection though...........
 
 
trouble at bill
11:50 / 24.07.08
Me neither.

But isn't Sufism sometimes reminiscent of Surrealism (at least in the way westerners depict Sufism)? For example:

Mullah Nasrudin: Have you ever seen me before?
Shopkeeper: No, I don't think so.
Mullah Nasrudin: Then how d'you know it is me?


That feels surreal. Just in my opinion, of course.
 
  
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