In the Eye of the Beholder: Tori Sampson Interviewed by Aleshea Harris
The emerging playwright takes on beauty standards and societal expectations.
Context Contingent: Ghislaine Leung Interviewed by Alan Ruiz
The two artists discuss public space and the means of circulation in Leung’s recent works.
The spirit and the damage done: On Bruce Nauman’s 100 Live and Die by Paul Chan
The art of dehumanization.
The poet on her new collection and what it means to mess with, fuss with, break, and refresh language.
A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.
BOMB 143,
Spring 2018
Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
BOMB 144,
Summer 2018
Featuring interviews with Chris Martin, Cy Gavin, Tauba Auerbach, Sam Hillmer, Amy Jenkins, Florian Meisenberg, John Akomfrah, Simone Forti, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Anna Moschovakis
BOMB 145,
Fall 2018
In the process of putting together each new issue of BOMB, we often come across distinct resonances between interviews—shared themes, creative preoccupations, and even specific phrases crop up time and again within otherwise disparate features. In these pages, artists discuss their expansive notions on collaboration. Their practices tend to split, reapportion, or redefine authorship, privileging process over individual intention and encouraging unique partnerships with spectators, local communities, film subjects, and one another. These willful acts of reaching out and beyond are as vital as ever, and worth emphasizing here.
BOMB 146,
Winter 2019
Our winter issue is dedicated to this planet’s greatest resource: water. With contributions from Saskatchewan and the American Southwest to Iceland and Northern Europe, an array of voices are brought together here—artists and writers investigating water as site, sustenance, and symbol, along with those expressing alarm and calling for intervention.
Featuring interviews with Lauren Bon, Oscar Tuazon, Jaque Fragua, Brad Kahlhamer, Ruth Cuthand, Janaina Tschäpe, Jessica Grindstaff, Tomoko Sauvage, Cecilia Vicuña, and Alicia Kopf, as well as writing by Laura van den Berg, Natalie Diaz, Stefan Helmreich, and more.
Remembering Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019)
Honoring her memory, BOMB looks back on the life and work of the multi-media artist.
Breaking the Frame, a film by Marielle Nitoslawska about Schneemann’s unique legacy, serves as a departure point for an exchange about the “beauty paradox,” historical and contemporary patriarchies, and the artist’s ongoing subversion of gender codes.
Wooden box filled with poured glass and various objects, Parts and Tools by Carolee Schneemann, accompanied with a written reflection by the artist.
Thinking is not an incorporeal process. The mind is a muscle.
“The meaning of art is destruction.”
Testosterone is the hormone that is the basis of patriarchy. So if you wanna get really deep, it’s like, Do I want to participate in that? I am totally a feminist and, as much as men might not feel empowered, they are in a more powerful position than someone with a vagina, or someone who is feminine or a woman. So what does that mean for me?
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Becca Blackwell