Refusions – Max Julian Eastman

A noisy book for a traveling tribe. This screen printed book by US noise artist Max Julian Eastman collects a distorted selection of his “Refusions” – collages assembled on cardboard backing using refuse and scrap elements assembled in a subconscious manner, “almost a cryogenic study to preserve refuse.” The book was printed for the occasion of Max’s return to the workshop less than a year after his first visit, a cyclic but unpredictable crossing of paths that allows the underground a taste of continuity and ideas that were uttered in the moment may materialize.

Max Julian Eastman has in recent years stood out more and more in the noise scene – both domestically and globally – mainly for his own music, but also for the label Tribe Tapes. He draws a lot from the much more sprawling 80s industrial and noise, and makes something distinctive of his own from it that also feels more forward-looking than retro.