BOMB 111/Spring 2010
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ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Tala Madani’s paintings, Diana Al-Hadid notices a peculiar relationship between manner and matter, directness and ambiguity, alienation and connection.
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.
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.
This First Proof contains four poems from the Getting Lucky series by Nicole Steinberg. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains four poems from Human / Nature. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Mrs. Dellums Speaks.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains two poems by Paul Guest. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Ventriloquy.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “You Look Like You Do” by Victoria Redel. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.