West Bengal Wall Writing. Murals produced during the state election campaign for the CPIML-L by artists, comrades, and residents (2021). Photograph provided by Anupam Roy.
Adam Turl + Tish Turl, Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain, painting and collage on canvas tarp (2021).
In this episode we begin with an excerpt from the Locust anthology series, Swarm Stories, and then Tish and Adam move on to discussing art, politics, and propaganda with Locust comrade Anupam Roy. Anupam Roy is an artist and propagandist with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. We also discuss Anupam’s drawings, appearing in Locust Review #5, Excuse Me I Was Sharpening My Teeth and May Day; Tish’s “franken-prose-poetry” series, The Stink Ape Resurrection Primer'; and Adam’s painting/collage, Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain, and augmented digital print series, Social Resurrection Task-Prints.
Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl and Adam Turl. Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. Music is by Omnia Sol.
Anupam Roy, May Day, ink on paper (2021).
Discussed in this episode: Adam Turl interviews Anupam Roy, “We Are Broken Cogs in the Machine,” Red Wedge (May 7, 2019); Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks; Ben Davis, “How the New Museum’s Triennial Sabotages Its Own Revolutionary Mission: What’s all this talk of propaganda?” Artnet (February 20, 2018); Interviews with Nagesh Rao, Tempest, “Authoritarianism and Resistance in India,” parts 1, 2, 3; from CPIMLL’s English language Liberation - “West Bengal Verdict And After Lessons for the Left”; from CPIMLL’s English language Liberation - “Modi Shrugs Off Responsibility As India Gasps for Breath”; Dave McNally, “What is the meaning of revolution today? Behind the New Reformism,” Spectre.
Anupam Roy, Excuse Me I Was Sharpening My Teeth, ink and watercolor on paper (2021).
Adam Turl + Tish Turl, Social Resurreciton Task-Prints, digital prints of the historic struggle augmented with cotton, ash, and paint, hanging on clotheslines (2021).
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