170 x 200mm, 108 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2021

All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film is a narrative assemblage of prose and image that is at once personal, historical, and theoretical. Continuing their inquiry into the curious presence of taxonomies of monsters in Early Modern European science, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner explore the etymology of the word ‘monster’ – from the Latin monstrare, meaning ‘to show,’ ‘to demonstrate,’ or ‘to reveal.’ Picking up on this, they position monsters as prisms for modes of seeing and deciphering the world around us.

When treated as a perceptual apparatus, the monster becomes a lens for probing the medium of film, examining its relationship to indexicality, chance, corporeality, and metamorphosis. This book extends the multimedia project the pair began with their film A Demonstration (2020). As artists and researchers, Litvintseva and Wagner’s collaborative practice interrogates the thresholds between the body and its surroundings, knowledge regimes, and power.

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