AMP • 7th April 2022 Art and Fascism Thundrously, the little sticks with the ribbons shot up and down in unison, as though they were chained to each other like the oars of a slave boat.
AMP • 21st March 2022 Documenting Performative Art The domain was full of unrolled grass, which, as I had learned from the presentation, María had made use of in a project she began in the early 90s entitled Hacia Lo Sagrada (Towards the Sacred). This was the same sort of unrolled grass one can find...
AMP • 28th January 2022 The Question Concerning the Vaccine What does it mean to be “vaccine-hesitant”? I take it to mean someone who does believe in science, and the importance of combatting a potentially deadly virus, and believes in the efficacy and necessity of certain vaccines, and would furthermore take...
AMP • 6th January 2022 Essays on Love It is widely held, by those true perverts in the know, that sexuality, amongst humans at least, is undergirdled by taboo. That desire is necessarily rooted in transgression, and satisfaction of that desire is accompanied by a subtle current of...
AMP • 6th January 2022 Does True Love Exist? I say: You are too kind friend. But yes, as you grant me, I am sufficiently educated and cultured in that regard. My desire for her body is not for a particular feature, but for the signification she has as your sibling. I could not enjoy her for...
AMP • 20th December 2021 Boys who like Girls So there I was, sifting inconspicuously through the rainbow magazines, pocketing with sideways glances the neon-coloured condom samples that fell between the leaves of the newest edition of Ham Sandwich. And as I put down the latest issue I spotted a...
AMP • 2nd October 2021 I/me Recently, I went through the process of applying to an art grant. Despite several proclamations on the importance of inclusion posted throughout the grant’s website, both representatives of the judging committee were clearly members of the LGBTQ...
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Fourth Feeling From Mutual When John Offengetiz awoke in the morning he felt horrible. Over the course of 48 hours he got much, much worse until he got much, much better.
AMP • 31st August 2021 Admitted You see, what I’m trying to do is get myself admitted into a mental institution.
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Colombia Report There’s a bum that wanders around the area near my metro stop. Tall light skinned fellow with dirty dreads. On each finger he has a ring fashioned out of barbed wire or old copper or the like, twisted round the digit tightly and many times, like a...
AMP • 31st August 2021 La Mente Neutral ¿Quién puede decir si el tiempo donde nos encontramos es un santo o un ladrón? No hay mal que por bien no venga, se dice. La única pregunta que me preocupa es; ¿Si no hay mal que por bien no venga, también estamos obligados a decir que no hay bien...
AMP • 31st August 2021 GOVERNMENT MAN Official business. Strictly confidential. Must keep hush-hush, on a need-to-know basis. I’m what you’d call a Government Man, you see. 5 passports in a safety deposit box.
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Fully Automatic Man Or they would prefer that automation exist in some distant region, some place unreachable and invisible from whence descends a benevolent automatic providence.
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Construction Boys They must get up early. The Construction Boys. To make the most of the day. The parables usually tell us that someone gets their blessing in the middle of work. That’s when God goes down to them, to give them their duty.
AMP • 31st August 2021 Heaven for Lovers - An Entropic Love Story in 12 Paragraphs What does heaven for lovers look like? ¿Como es el cielo para los amantes?
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Mistrustful Man of Málaga Recently, the Polack, who was still young enough to be considered a bachelor, had met a young and pretty woman. This woman told the Polack that she was from France, from a family of jewellers, and that back home, in her town, whose name the Polack...
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Return of Prince Nazir “I do not like looking in mirrors, I do not like being reminded of my humanity. That I have a face as hideous as the rest of these dirty creatures that mill about in the streets, doing ugly things, beneath me.”
AMP • 31st August 2021 The Bat ...And down he descended many depths, deep in the hollow of the earth, a gaping dark cavernous ruin, he descended. And as the light faded the tunnel narrowed, until at last he was forced to find his way with touch and foot alone. Here his hand...
