BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Raúl de Nieves and Colin Self get metaphysical with collaborative performances, dance parties, and the challenging of corporeal limitations.
Emily Testa chats with author Emma Straub about her new book Other People We Married, the awkwardness of teendom, and the benefits of working in a bookstore.
Lina Mannheimer talks about her relationship to French popular icon Catherine Robbe-Grillet, who is the subject of Mannheimer’s upcoming documentary, The Ceremony.
An editor of creative translation journal Telephone and the EFA Project Space’s curator discuss hybrid translations of Brazilian concrete poet Augusto de Campos.
Peter Bebergal and Jeffrey J. Kripal on the experience of pop culture and its mystical and mythological implications.
Based in out-of-the-way Red Hook in Brooklyn, the Still House Group brings a fresh new perspective on what a collective creative effort should look like.
Janelle Iglesias + Lisa Iglesias = Las Hermanas Iglesias. The sisters share their reflections on collaboration, collection, and the absurd with Martha Moldovan.
Courtney B. Maum and Arda Collins on poetry and Fudgie the Whale
Director and composer Gary Tarn talks to Pamela Cohn about adapting Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet into a stirring visual odyssey set in the local homes and streets of Beirut.
The man behind the Reanimation Library, an assemblage of discarded texts and cultural detritus, talks to BOMBlog about how to put life back into a wide range of works.
BOMBlog talks to singing drummer Neal Morgan, who’s played with the likes of Bill Callahan and Joanna Newsom, about his remarkable new solo album IN THE YARD.
Energy drinks and LEDs shock the system and set the stage for Josh Kline’s curiously energized creative practice.
In the second installment of this two-part interview, Suzanne Snider talks with renegade choreographer, Yvonne Meier, about her early years in Switzerland, her improvisational Scores, and being both a mother and a maker.
In the first installment of this two-part interview, Suzanne Snider catches up with Yvonne Meier to discuss the revival of The Shining, Meier’s 1992 Bessie-winning work that involves refrigerator boxes, unmarked vans, flashlights, and macking.
Scott Pinkmountain chats with musician Sam Coomes, an elder statesman of indie rock who definitely doesn’t want to be James Taylor.
Artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy collaborated with producer SOPHIE and triple-threat Chelsea Culp at the New Museum in September. The result? Paint on the dance floor, and an inescapable harmony that you can’t help but whistle to.
In part two of a two part conversation. Ben Ehrenreich and Samuel Bing discuss and Ehrenreich’s new novel Ether
Micki Pellerano creates his own cosmos in his drawings. Legacy Russell takes a walking tour through the Lower East Side’s envoy enterprises, and the mythical regions of an artist’s mind, beyond revelation.
Alex Zafiris talks to theater director, writer and media designer Jay Scheib about his recent play, World of Wires, which closes his trilogy, Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems.
Ben Ehrenreich sits down with Samuel Bing of the band Fol Chen, and they discuss authorship and making homemade Twinkies.
Daniel Clowes talks about his newly reissued comic The Death Ray and his distaste for superheroes and wrestling.
Legacy Russell Twitinterviews artist Man Bartlett about Occupy Wall Street, class and economy, and how Twitter just might be the next frontier for public sculpture.
Renee Gladman’s novels, set in the yellow-skied, unraveling city-country Ravicka, link language and deep disorientation. She talks to BOMB about cities, sentences and the alterities therein.
Street Artist Raquel Sakristan on Dark Energy, defining consciousness, and not being afraid to disappear.
Lauren Bakst catches up with choreographer and performer Michelle Boulé during a rehearsal for her latest work, Hello, I need you.
BOMBlog talks to artist Jackson Thomas Tupper about his work, featured as The Wick in Issue 118, on newsstands now.
Appendix Project Space embraces change, progress, and unpredictability, breaking the traditional archetypes of the white-wall gallery space.
Patrick Gaughan talks to poet Chris Toll about poetry and collage: “My poems are like a pyramid you climb backwards.”
Nicolle Elizabeth talks to author Elissa Schappell about her collection of short stories, Blueprints for Building Better Girls.
Erika Chong Shuch has a lot of feelings. Tess Thackara joins the artist in a circle sit-down to see how her new work takes therapy off the couch and into the crowd.
