This exhibition at Galerie pompom is a presentation of one that was filmed in Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay House at the end of May. The premise of the title came about from a consideration of Acid (or psychedelia) and Gothic as cultural strategies that have reappeared throughout Western history in response to authoritarian or highly structured theoretical regimes. These strategies, when placed next to each other, became a lens through which to view the world. These last decades become a kind of torrid cheese dream, a nightmare had by someone who awoke in the Middle Ages and passed out sometime towards the end of the 20th century. In taking Acid and Gothic as cultural trajectories that can be followed and intertwined, Acid/Gothic tries to imagine alternate realities; it traverses time and space and promotes a world where relationships, ideas and social and cultural frameworks exist on an expanded plane, in multiple dimensions and careening off in multiple directions. This exhibition and issue of Das Superpaper looks to emotional, experiential and, above all, uncertain stances on existence, the cultural fabric and the eternal task of living with each other.