Prototype Sorcerer.

by Ed Atkins, Steven Zultanski

Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and personal aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home for the night, the remaining one watches TV, dances, and takes apart his face in front of a giant mirror.
Originally a play, Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone. The characters find contentment in each other’s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to furniture, gadgets, and bodily movements. The result is a counterintuitive kind of realism, lying somewhere between the procedural and the miraculous. There’s levitation.

144 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2023

About the author

Ed Atkins (born 1982) is a British contemporary artist best known for his video art and poetry. He is currently based in Berlin.

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Reviews

[JLS · Rating 5 out of 5]

really really excellent and makes me wish i had seen it live. a bit of beckett and lynch and writhing bodies reminding me of coralie fargeat, japanese horror from the late nineties. a strange dream perhaps.

[I · Rating 5 out of 5]

in 1 middag in de pels gelezen 👍

[m a g · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now i want to know with enactments how everyone approaches the act of putting on and taking off items of clothing and also layers and also where do you feel you reside in your body??

amazed