5 out of 5

These mini-comics / art books are, perhaps, the most distilled versions of Kate Lacour’s obsessions / interests in the blurred lines between human behavior, animalistic behavior, automated behavior, and beyond: the alien nature of ourselves – particularly in relation to gender, sex, birth, death – when viewed through the eyes of someone completely open to asking Why and What Does This Mean each step along the way.

In Vivisectionary, this is visually represented as bisected oddities, or diagrams of medical experiments in which biology is hacked or morphed into curiosities.  Approximately a year between issues, Kate’s head seems to progress from viewing behaviors as they are blended with, at first, nature, and then by issue three, wending in more of a mythological sensibility with religious iconography.

Violent, repulsive, beautiful, fascinating, amazing.  As it is distilled, this is maybe Kate’s most likely to offend stuff, but its also the acid test: if you like this, you’ll like it all.  Brutal and gorgeous work.

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