BOMB 119/Spring 2012
What do contemporary art and raves have in common? According to Francesca Gavin’s E-Vapor-8, quite a bit.
Blessed be Catholic performance artist Linda Montano and her life/art. Amen.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Nate Kinsella talks about his project Birthmark’s new album Antibodies and shares some soon-to-be classic cute animal videos.
Tom McCarthy and Margarita Gluzberg ask whether psychosis can ever be critical, whether matter can transmit, and what the word fiction finally means.
Eve Fowler catches up with Sam Gordon on his latest body of work.
In her latest Shifting Connections, Kathleen MacQueen reflects on her favorite shows of the Spring of 2012.
Artist Marie Lorenz goes against the current with her recent body of work.
Bob Holman is on the road to save the day.
![Amanda Kirkhuff: Judy With the Head of Holofernes. 2009 Graphite on paper. All images courtesy of the artists and [ 2nd Floor Projects ], San Francisco.](/images/attachments/0014/2234/Kirkhuff_Judy_With_the_Head_of_Holofernes_small_cover.jpg?1334601517 "Amanda Kirkhuff: Judy With the Head of Holofernes. 2009 Graphite on paper. All images courtesy of the artists and [ 2nd Floor Projects ], San Francisco.")
Jennifer Blowdryer’s aggressive, witty autobiographical prose inspired by work in [ 2FP ]’s exhibition Here Comes Everybody.
Designer Gigi Ferrante shares artist Arch Connelly’s style book and philosophy on art and life on the occasion of his exhibition at La MaMa Galleria.
Liza Béar talks to Turkish artist Serkan Ozkaya about his monumental David Double.
Nite Jewel discusses the range of influences behind her gauzy sound, including brainwashed evangelists and the cost of the metro.
Lori DeGolyer chats with choreographer devynn emory after catching a rehearsal of their latest piece, This Horse is Not a Home.
Dustin Wong’s meditative, minimalist jams are paths to enlightenment. Or at least euphoria. Lori DeGolyer talks to Wong about his sonic gardening.
Black Bananas’ Jennifer Herrema—of Royal Trux and RTX infamy—hits the hookah with Spencer Sweeney.
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.
This weekend shows you how to make an entrance, an exit, and an improvised opus.
Lauren Bakst catches up with choreographer and performer Michelle Boulé during a rehearsal for her latest work, Hello, I need you.
Forget autotune—Nick Demopolous introduces BOMBlog to the future of music. Its name is Smomid.
During Basel week, BOMB teamed up with Gallery Diet in a celebration of Clifford Owens’s first Miami solo show. Legacy Russell was there to sneak a peek at the Audience.
Fernando Orellana and Samuel Jablon discuss Orellana’s current projects, new directions, permanence, impermanence, and the machines or artificial intelligences that create art.
Michelle Oka Doner’s A Walk on the Beach installation at the Miami International Airport welcomes all with terrazzo, bronze, and mother-of-pearl.
In this inaugural entry of Performance In Process, Lauren Bakst visits Jen Rosenblit’s rehearsal to spend some time watching and discussing her latest project, In Mouth.
Wet Illustrated, an energetic shambolic psych combo with more than a whiff of C86 about them, run down some videos with BOMBlog’s Tauni Malmgren.
Daniel Lopatin discusses his new album Replica, synthesizer schizophrenia, and getting into “sacred time,” before presenting his fascinating video playlist for BOMBlog.
In this discussion, Nathalie Handal tells Ram Devineni of her experiences in Afghanistan as well as explaining where her fascination with the written word originally came from.
Wooden Shjips new album West strings out the quartet’s psychedelic, garage rock feel. While the Shjips are on the move, organist Nash Whalen stops to chat about San Franciscan culture and European tour mates.
Richard J. Goldstein explores the shifting, spectral geometry of Dorothea Rockburne’s retrospective, In My Mind’s Eye. Watch a video of his visit in the second of a two part installment of BOMB on the Scene.
Liza Béar talks to Miquel Barceló about his 26-foot bronze sculpture, Gran Elefandret, which was recently unveiled in New York’s Union Square.
Check out a video preview of Immersive Surfaces, a video projection installation on the Manhattan Bridge for the DUMBO Arts Festival, happening September 23 to 25. BOMB wouldn’t miss it!
