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BOMB 109/Fall 2009

ALLEN RUPPERSBERG by Cheryl Donegan

The peripatetic conceptualist (Where’s Al?) talks with artist Cheryl Donegan about Ginsberg’s Howl, the reanimated past, and the overlooked poetry of authorless signage.

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ALLORA & CALZADILLA by Carlos Motta

An unseen tap dancer whose reverberating steps haunt an empty gallery, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a whistleblower atop a hippo made of mud: Allora & Calzadilla on the politics of site and sound, plus a video.

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JOEL SHAPIRO by Michèle Gerber Klein

Known for his tilting, anthropomorphic sculptures and psychologically dense archetypical floor pieces, Shapiro speaks of Indian art as a lived experience and his overriding search for its forms.

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LYDIA PEELLE by Gillian Welch

Lydia Peelle was just honored with the “5 Under 35” Award by the National Book Foundation. Read her interview, then listen to a recording of her reading from her collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing.

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REBECCA SOLNIT by Astra Taylor

Filmmaker Taylor delves into Solnit’s book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, where the preconceptions of human nature are exposed and the triumphs of civil society are extolled.

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Cherien Dabis directing Melkar Muallem (Fadi) on the set of ??Amreeka??.

CHERIEN DABIS by June Stein

Dabis wrote her film Amreeka, in theaters now, in response to her family’s Arab-American experience. An immigrant’s tale, the search for a better future in the Promised Land is full of seismic changes.

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??Itutu??, 2009, performance photo of Armitage Gone! Dance with Burkina Electric's Maimounata Lingani. Photo by Giacomo Orlando.

KAROLE ARMITAGE by Lukas Ligeti

The iconic dancer and choreographer is collaborating with musician Lukas Ligeti on Itutu, blending African pop with Western symbolism. They dissect African polyrhythms and Armitage’s movement language of sinuous curves.

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THOMAS BRADSHAW by Margo Jefferson

Jefferson describes Bradshaw’s plays as treacherous territories peopled with high-achieving suburbanites and professors gripped by sexual and racial manias. Their most dangerous quality: they act on pure id.

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DAN SCHMIDT by James Siena

Dan Schmidt employs found objects and an arsenal of modest shapes to breach the boundary between the conscious and the accidental. James Siena explores the hidden world inside Schmidt’s paintings.

(BOMB 109/Fall 2009, ARTISTS ON ARTISTS...

MICACHU AND THE SHAPES by Anni Rossi

Violist Anni Rossi recounts her touring experience with outlandish trio Micachu and the Shapes, who are playing at Littlefield in Brooklyn this Friday, October 2nd.

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TALA MADANI by Diana Al-Hadid

In Tala Madani’s paintings, Diana Al-Hadid notices a peculiar relationship between manner and matter, directness and ambiguity, alienation and connection.

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RETURNING A SOUND by Allora & Calzadilla

WATCH NOW! Watch Allora & Calzadilla’s Returning A Sound, the duo’s 2004 video made during their involvement with a civil disobedience campaign in Vieques, Puerto Rico against a US military testing and training site.

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THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY by Lydia Peelle

Listen to a recording of Lydia Peelle reading her short story “This Is Not a Love Story” in the sixth installment of Fiction for Driving Across America.

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FOUR POEMS by Nicole Steinberg

This First Proof contains four poems from the Getting Lucky series by Nicole Steinberg. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.

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HUMAN / NATURE by Stephen Ratcliffe

This First Proof contains four poems from Human / Nature. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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MRS. DELLUMS SPEAKS by Simon Timothy Woodward

This First Proof contains the story “Mrs. Dellums Speaks.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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TWO POEMS by Paul Guest

This First Proof contains two poems by Paul Guest. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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VENTRILOQUY by Christopher Sorrentino

This First Proof contains the short story “Ventriloquy.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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YOU LOOK LIKE YOU DO by Victoria Redel

This First Proof contains the story “You Look Like You Do” by Victoria Redel. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.

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