ÒZombieÓ is everywhere. ThereÕs Òzombie formalism,Ó Òzombie technology,Ó Òzombie debt,Ó Òzombie poetry.Ó If something exists, thereÕs a living dead version of it. Why is this? And to what effect? For years George has been exploring these questions and our cultureÕs fixation on zombie through painting, drawing, video and lecture. Starting with a collaborative video, also titled Zombie Variations, he began to work with Tom on a number of linguistic and poetic inquiries into zombie and the grotesque. This book brings together TomÕs sound and visual poetry and GeorgeÕs zombie research to create works at the intersection of word and image. We have made drawings, paintings, poems, tongue twisters, temporary tattoos, graveyard rubbings, cartoons, xeroxes, xeroxes of xeroxes, an iOS app called BlabberLab and more. In many chapters notes and sketches introduce the works; the Appendix section provides thorough title and background information to individual works.
-George Pfau & Tom Comitta