My impulse was to write the last black play ever for myself. I really believed if I put it all into one play, people would leave me alone.
—
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
End Page by Michael Auder
- Ryan Trecartin by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
- Shezad Dawood by Doug Ashford
- Sadie Benning by Lia Gangitano
- Wendy Ewald by Esther Allen
- Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum
- Ivan Vladislavić by Katie Kitamura
- Álvaro Enrigue by Scott Esposito
- Christopher Sorrentino by Dana Spiotta
- Vijay Iyer by Mendi Obadike & Keith Obadike
- Yorgos Lanthimos by Peter Strickland
Interviews
- Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa by Regina José Galindo
- Anna K.E. by Corrine Fitzpatrick
Artists on Artists
- From Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge & Gerhard Richter
- Two Stories by Kate Zambreno
- Marcy by Domenick Ammirati
- Two Poems by Joan Retallack
- Three Poems by John Ashbery
- From The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky
- Three Poems by Daniel Poppick
First Proof
- Andrew Blauvelt’s Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia by Clinton Krute
- David Means’s Hystopia by Chantal McStay
- Accompaniment by Charity Coleman
- Mohsen Namjoo & Ensemble by Roja Heydarpour
- Josef Kaplan’s Poem Without Suffering by Ted Dodson
- Charles Simonds’s Dwelling by Stephanie Weber
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- End Page by Michael Auder
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Michel Auder, Untitled (BOMBpacifier), 2016, edition of 3. Courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery, New York and Los Angeles.
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Sculpture and installation that investigate subjective perspectives.
Painting and sculpting faces.
Originally published in
BOMB 135,
Spring 2016
Featuring interviews with Ryan Trecartin, Shezad Dawood, Sadie Benning, Wendy Ewald, Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Ivan Vladislavić, Álvaro Enrigue, Christopher Sorrentino, Vijay Iyer, and Yorgos Lanthimos.
