Selected Writings on
Art and Design
New Book :
This is Not a Surrealism - A Manifesto for and against the Simulcara of Surrealism,
Sydney: Apothecary Archive Publishing, 2024.
Listen:
Interview about This is not a Surrealism on East Side Radio, 1 November 2024.
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Coming Soon :
André Breton, Magic Art (Deluxe Edition),
London: Fulgur Press, 2025.
In 1953, Breton asked thrity two surrealists and intellectuals - from Heidegger to Magritte - a series of questions about magic and art. For the 2025 edition, the first English translation, thirty two artists, scholars, poets, and esotericists - including Simon Weir - provided new answers to those same questions.
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Published Essays:
“Ontological Withdrawal and the Symbols of Symbolism”
Senzacornice - Rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica, 23 “Simbolo”, Nov 2020 - Feb 2021.
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“Art and Ontography”
Open Philosophy, Special Issue:“Object Oriented Ontology and its Critics” 3,1, 2020, pp.400–412.
“Surrealist Architecture: Dalí’s 1958 Crisalida, San Francisco”
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, 13,1, 2022, pp. 112-131.
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“Paranoiac Critical Interiorisations”
IDEA Journal 2012, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2012, pp. 60-71.
“The Ontographic Turn: From Cubism to the Surrealist Object”
Open Philosophy, Special Issue:“Object Oriented Ontology and its Critics” 2,1, 2019, pp.384–398.
“The Nearness of Texture: Apparent depth in the Oil Paintings of Velásquez and Vermeer”
11th Congress, of the International Colour Association, University of NSW
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