Albert Herter - Castrati in the OrchOrd (Personal Space Editions)
Castrati in the OrchOrd is a limited edition artist book by Albert Herter. The book features 56 color pages of Herter’s drawings interwoven with Jules Delisle’s essay, The Flesh of Others: Bodies and Boundaries in Myth, History, and Modernity, and an introductory text by Herter. The book is accompanied by an 11x 17” risograph poster featuring Herter’s artwork and Joe Proulx’s poem, Dead Ringers.
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Castrati in the OrchOrd
Edition of 50
Signed by Albert Herter
Published by Personal Space
September 2024
$35 plus shipping
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Dead Ringers
Watching the same movie
In different cities, I say, Albert,
You’re Beverly and I’m Elliot.
Albert says, You’re the one who sees
Himself in Imaginary characters.
-
I spend the following morning
Trying to discern Beverly’s symptoms from Eliiot’s
But behind every poem is someone
Who doesn’t trust you. Perhaps,
Because the truth is persecutory,
You're the first to know it.
-
Our call dropped right as I was saying
Something you needed to hear. Caught In the
Of that horrible pleasure at the end of the line
Without a sympathetic breath and left
Hanging onto it through the receiver.
— Joe Proulx
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Albert Herter (b 1980, San Francisco) holds a BFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he focused primarily on video, installation, and performance. His work has been included in exhibitions at JOAN (LA), Art in General (NY), Derek Eller (NY), and San Francisco City Hall. A pairing of the artist’s drawings and writings was recently published by Comfortable on a Tightrope and Museums Press under the title, “In the Curtyard: Orchestrated Reduction of the Fantasm”. His drawings have also been featured in The Third Rail and Lacanian Ink. In addition to his artistic practice, Herter is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Jules Delisle is a nurse, researcher, and an organizing force in the Mimbres School for the Humanities, where her work bridges the realms of human and environmental health. Rooted in her background in justice sciences and cultural ecology, Jules approaches her multidisciplinary practice with a commitment to creating sustainable futures. Her work draws inspiration from Métis family teachings and Indigenous subsistence frameworks, shaping her focus on how health and ecology intersect in profound ways. Both a science educator and a community organizer, she navigates the complexities of the modern landscape with an eye toward anticolonial change and survival. https://mimbres.study.garden/about
Joe Proulx is a writer and psychoanalyst formed in dialogue with poets, artists, and Lacanian clinicians from a variety of schools–among them Apres Coup, Pulsion Institute and Bard College. His writing has been featured in Pathetic Literature, (Grove, 2003). A collaborative novel, Castrati, written with Albert Herter is forthcoming. He is seeing patients virtually and in person in NY. For inquiries: joe.proulx@gmail.com
Castrati in the OrchOrd is a limited edition artist book by Albert Herter. The book features 56 color pages of Herter’s drawings interwoven with Jules Delisle’s essay, The Flesh of Others: Bodies and Boundaries in Myth, History, and Modernity, and an introductory text by Herter. The book is accompanied by an 11x 17” risograph poster featuring Herter’s artwork and Joe Proulx’s poem, Dead Ringers.
🪰
Castrati in the OrchOrd
Edition of 50
Signed by Albert Herter
Published by Personal Space
September 2024
$35 plus shipping
🪰
Dead Ringers
Watching the same movie
In different cities, I say, Albert,
You’re Beverly and I’m Elliot.
Albert says, You’re the one who sees
Himself in Imaginary characters.
-
I spend the following morning
Trying to discern Beverly’s symptoms from Eliiot’s
But behind every poem is someone
Who doesn’t trust you. Perhaps,
Because the truth is persecutory,
You're the first to know it.
-
Our call dropped right as I was saying
Something you needed to hear. Caught In the
Of that horrible pleasure at the end of the line
Without a sympathetic breath and left
Hanging onto it through the receiver.
— Joe Proulx
🪰
Albert Herter (b 1980, San Francisco) holds a BFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he focused primarily on video, installation, and performance. His work has been included in exhibitions at JOAN (LA), Art in General (NY), Derek Eller (NY), and San Francisco City Hall. A pairing of the artist’s drawings and writings was recently published by Comfortable on a Tightrope and Museums Press under the title, “In the Curtyard: Orchestrated Reduction of the Fantasm”. His drawings have also been featured in The Third Rail and Lacanian Ink. In addition to his artistic practice, Herter is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Jules Delisle is a nurse, researcher, and an organizing force in the Mimbres School for the Humanities, where her work bridges the realms of human and environmental health. Rooted in her background in justice sciences and cultural ecology, Jules approaches her multidisciplinary practice with a commitment to creating sustainable futures. Her work draws inspiration from Métis family teachings and Indigenous subsistence frameworks, shaping her focus on how health and ecology intersect in profound ways. Both a science educator and a community organizer, she navigates the complexities of the modern landscape with an eye toward anticolonial change and survival. https://mimbres.study.garden/about
Joe Proulx is a writer and psychoanalyst formed in dialogue with poets, artists, and Lacanian clinicians from a variety of schools–among them Apres Coup, Pulsion Institute and Bard College. His writing has been featured in Pathetic Literature, (Grove, 2003). A collaborative novel, Castrati, written with Albert Herter is forthcoming. He is seeing patients virtually and in person in NY. For inquiries: joe.proulx@gmail.com
Castrati in the OrchOrd is a limited edition artist book by Albert Herter. The book features 56 color pages of Herter’s drawings interwoven with Jules Delisle’s essay, The Flesh of Others: Bodies and Boundaries in Myth, History, and Modernity, and an introductory text by Herter. The book is accompanied by an 11x 17” risograph poster featuring Herter’s artwork and Joe Proulx’s poem, Dead Ringers.
🪰
Castrati in the OrchOrd
Edition of 50
Signed by Albert Herter
Published by Personal Space
September 2024
$35 plus shipping
🪰
Dead Ringers
Watching the same movie
In different cities, I say, Albert,
You’re Beverly and I’m Elliot.
Albert says, You’re the one who sees
Himself in Imaginary characters.
-
I spend the following morning
Trying to discern Beverly’s symptoms from Eliiot’s
But behind every poem is someone
Who doesn’t trust you. Perhaps,
Because the truth is persecutory,
You're the first to know it.
-
Our call dropped right as I was saying
Something you needed to hear. Caught In the
Of that horrible pleasure at the end of the line
Without a sympathetic breath and left
Hanging onto it through the receiver.
— Joe Proulx
🪰
Albert Herter (b 1980, San Francisco) holds a BFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he focused primarily on video, installation, and performance. His work has been included in exhibitions at JOAN (LA), Art in General (NY), Derek Eller (NY), and San Francisco City Hall. A pairing of the artist’s drawings and writings was recently published by Comfortable on a Tightrope and Museums Press under the title, “In the Curtyard: Orchestrated Reduction of the Fantasm”. His drawings have also been featured in The Third Rail and Lacanian Ink. In addition to his artistic practice, Herter is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Jules Delisle is a nurse, researcher, and an organizing force in the Mimbres School for the Humanities, where her work bridges the realms of human and environmental health. Rooted in her background in justice sciences and cultural ecology, Jules approaches her multidisciplinary practice with a commitment to creating sustainable futures. Her work draws inspiration from Métis family teachings and Indigenous subsistence frameworks, shaping her focus on how health and ecology intersect in profound ways. Both a science educator and a community organizer, she navigates the complexities of the modern landscape with an eye toward anticolonial change and survival. https://mimbres.study.garden/about
Joe Proulx is a writer and psychoanalyst formed in dialogue with poets, artists, and Lacanian clinicians from a variety of schools–among them Apres Coup, Pulsion Institute and Bard College. His writing has been featured in Pathetic Literature, (Grove, 2003). A collaborative novel, Castrati, written with Albert Herter is forthcoming. He is seeing patients virtually and in person in NY. For inquiries: joe.proulx@gmail.com