Book review: Vancouver multimedia artist’s memoir explores dialectic between art and madness

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Book review: Vancouver multimedia artist’s memoir explores dialectic between art and madness
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Vancouver multimedia artist/author Kagan Goh delivers moving, elegantly written record of living with manic depression.

In 1993, Vancouver multimedia artist, performance poet, filmmaker and author Kagan Goh was first diagnosed as manic depressive. Surviving Samsara is his elegantly written memoir of what happened in the wake of that fateful diagnosis.

All the while he paid close attention to his suffering and found ways to transform it into art. This book is a moving, elegantly written record of those years and of his remarkable achievements. Article content And here is another striking passage among many. Describing the breakdown of a love affair, he writes:

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