Antonin Artaud: Terminal Curses: The Notebooks, 1945-48

Barber explores the newly-revealed set of 406 notebooks which Artaud used in the final years of his life in Paris after his release from a decade of asylum incarceration. Artaud’s notebooks are designed as an autonomous work, through which he distils his pre-eminent preoccupations: the envisioning of a new, organ-less human anatomy, his conception of the time and space of gesture, his intensive confrontation between text and image and his reflections on the fluctuating parameters of life and death.