Cosmic Caesious, Cosmic Zinnober, Cosmic Celadon, Cosmic Virescent

A Strange Attractor Press collection examining Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani’s multimedia practice alongside postmodern architect Charles Jencks’ intellectual legacy. Essays by Boyer, Frearson, LaBarge, Saad and Le Melle trace connections between Shani’s exhibition The World To Me Was A Secret and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, exploring Jencks’ concept of Ad-Hocism—the surreal recombination of materials for unintended purposes. The book investigates anthropomorphism, surrealism’s tangled histories, and Promethean impulses through Shani’s experimental method, which recovers feminised aesthetic modes including the gothic, floral and psychedelic. Shani’s practice oscillates between theoretical inquiry and visceral detail, examining reproductive labour, illness and marginalised non-sovereignty within undead histories, while materially fantasising against patriarchal racial-capitalist systems.

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