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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Watch exclusive streaming video of Marilá Dardot’s playful verb experiment, Hic et nunc and read her conversation with artist Cao Guimarães.
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Mário Ramiro explores Lucia Koch’s work and the enigmatic animation Olinda-Celeste, a collaboration between Koch and Gabriel Acevedo Velarde. Watch the video here!
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Gomes reinvents beauty with insignificant things — precarious objects on their way to disappearing. In correspondence with the master builder of spirit, Ernesto Neto.
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Muniz, master of turning life’s detritus back into life itself, speaks with the visionary design team known as the Campana Brothers on metamorphosis.
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The artists discuss chance, the creative potential of drifting, and “distinguishing reality from fiction—as if that were possible!” WEB EXTRA: Watch Dardot’s Hic et nunc video!
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Interviewer Antonio Sergio Bessa translates three poems by Francisco Alvim. Read BOMB’s interview with Francisco Alvim by Antonio Sergio Bessa.
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Enjoy an excerpt of Bernardo Carvalho’s novel, Nine Nights, then check out his interview with cultural theorist Natalia Brizuela.
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Brazil’s prolific and legendary writer Lygia Fagundes Telles crosses literary time and space with Portugal’s own Manuel Alegre, novelist and presidential candidate.
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A career diplomat and wordsmith, Alvim’s cryptic poetry—observations with the geometrical brevity of haiku, or shrapnel—spans five decades. WEB EXTRA: three Alvim poems translated by Antonio Sergio Bessa.
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Carvalho returns to the modernist project in his adventurous novels — saturated with desire and ambiguity, dislocation and theatricality. WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from Carvalho’s novel Nine Nights!
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Karim Aïnouz’s Madame Satã broke taboos on all sorts of sexuality. The filmmakers discuss the internal geography of a peripatetic outsider, and the contradictions of their country and the condition of human nature.
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Experience two sound poems by vocalist Arnaldo Antunes, as discussed in his interview with poet Eucanaã Ferraz.
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Antunes, vocalist for the landmark rock band Titãs, on lyrical audacity, his sound and visual poems, and everything from Bossa Nova to Tropicália. WEB EXTRA: Listen to exclusive sound poems by Arnaldo Antunes!
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Sponsored in part by the Frances Dittmer Family Foundation. Experimentation reached its peak in Brazil with the Paulista School, and one of its main contributors was Mendes da Rocha, the 2006 Pritzker Prize–winning architect.
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Artist Mário Ramiro on the work of Lucia Koch. WEB EXTRA: Watch Koch’s collaborative animation, Olinda-Celeste!
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