Art by DoppelHouse PressJun 24, 20228:32 pm

Hunting for Art on the Ring Road

BY AHMED NAJI -أحمد ناجى
The shop walls were covered with wooden planks, on those planks, drawings of people in a state of motion. They were crossing the street or leaving a building, but here they were stuck in a void.

That was the first exhibition by “Amr El Kafrawy” for me to attend. We met for a short interview. He told me about his work approach: sitting in some “internet café” overlooking Talaat Harb square in the Downtown area, getting out a small camera while watching people, and secretly taking photographs of them. Afterward, he drew on those photographs to put them back in a state of motion. He turned them into black shadows crossing the empty wooden planks covering the “Artellewa” gallery walls.

Art by DoppelHouse PressJan 19, 202212:35 pm

Sadie Barnette: Space for Retelling Black History

By Lauren “LP” Spencer

Barnette’s exhibition creates an immersive experience that guides the audience into her world to confront political, social, and familial issues related to state-sponsored, racialized surveillance, intimidation, and violence.

poetry by DoppelHouse PressSep 10, 202110:00 am

HAGAR PEETERS Selected poetry

Select poems by Hagar Peeters, translated from the Dutch with an introduction by Judith Wilkinson

Essay by DoppelHouse PressJul 7, 202110:20 am

Language, Lunacy, and the Literary Provocateur: Life Writing and Schizophrenia

By Claire Phillips

The night before picking up a copy of The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esmé Weijun Wang’s essays on the subject of “the full psychotic spectrum” or what are called “the schizophrenias,” I anticipated its themes in a threatening dream related to my mother’s struggle with an illness that went undiagnosed for far too long.

poetry by DoppelHouse PressMar 31, 202111:45 pm

The Poetry of Joanna Roche

A selection of poems from Joanna Roche’s recently released chapbook “then.now.if.”

Essay by DoppelHouse PressJan 21, 20216:59 pm

A Script: Children of December

By Zarina Zabrisky

Scene 1. The camera slowly goes over my grandmother’s wall calendar open on the caption, in Russian: LENINGRAD. November 7, 1988. 71st anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Scene 2. The military factory entrance looks like Moloch’s jaws.

Art by DoppelHouse PressNov 3, 20209:10 pm

COVID-19, MY COMRADE: Central-European Graffiti and Street-Art Responses to Pandemic

Written and photographed by Mitja Velikonja, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the beginning is the scream. … And lots of screaming can be heard lately, in difficult times of global COVID-19 pandemic. As a researcher of urban cultures and radical politics I’m particularly interested in “sprayed screams,” … reacting to the disease and even more to governmental medical, social and economic measures against it.

Art by DoppelHouse PressNov 3, 20208:14 pm

Pandemic BLM Politics: Graffiti from New York, Long Beach, and Los Angeles

By Carrie Paterson
Photos by Seph Rodney, Mario Ybarra Jr., and Carrie Paterson

It was lucky for me that early in the (first?) summer of the pandemic, I encountered the writings of Slovenian “graffitologist” Mitja Velikonja, just as my home street corner started filling up with warring pandemic wheatpaste posters and stickers. Like many shops and businesses around the country, the tenants decided to board up the windows in a (hyperbolic, on my quiet street) show of fear about property damage that might ensue from the Black Lives Matter protests

fiction by DoppelHouse PressSep 23, 20206:50 pm

Rosh Hashanah Poetry Edition

A selection of poems by Nina Pick.

Grandchild of Holocaust survivors, and an integrative spiritual counselor, Pick works to revive Judaism through the gifts of female spiritual leaders and heal intergenerational trauma. She’s a Reiki Master, a Waldorf educator, and a fellow at the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.

film by DoppelHouse PressAug 11, 20209:41 am

DESERTS OF VAST ETERNITY: THE VAMPIRE DIALECTICS

By Glenn Harcourt

Harris’s Carmilla is much more than just a well-told and engaging story with an affirmative if transgressive LBGTQ plot. It engages us also in the way it transforms its original source material, and about how that transgression can also be a liberation, as long as one is willing to be the price.