The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj
- Nicole Eisenman and David Humphrey
- Carolee Schneemann by Coleen Fitzgibbon
- Maggie Nelson by A.L. Steiner
- Justin Vivian Bond by Joy Episalla
- Leigh Ledare by Chris Kraus
- Robert Grenier and Paul Stephens
- Moriah Evans by Lawrence Kumpf
Interviews
- BOMB Specific
BOMB Specific
- Sam Messer by Mary Reid Kelley
- Caroline Woolard by John Haskell
- Lauren Bakst and Yuri Masnyj
Artists on Artists
- From Flow Chart Illuminated by John Ashbery & Archie Rand
- Chronicles of Nueva York (El Bar Stonewall) by Pedro Lemebel
- Excerpt from White Time by Bernadette Van-Huy
- Olympia by Robert Walser
- Assholes and Oxheads by Will Heinrich
- Three Poems by Arthur Solway
- Evolution by Eileen Myles
- Three Poems by Laura Mullen
First Proof
- Raphael Rubinstein’s The Miraculous
- Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro’s Pry by John Cayley
- Walerian Borowczyk’s Obscure Pleasures and Other Polish Films by Peter Dudek
- Badlands Unlimited’s New Lovers Series by Mónica de la Torre
- Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, Translated by Emma Ramadan by Tyler Curtis
- Dorothy Iannone’s You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends, Edited by Lisa Pearson, with Essay By Trinie Dalton by Christine Wertheim
- Shelley Marlow’s Two Augusts in a Row in a Row by Kevin Killian
- I Love Taylor Mead and Gay Power: Taylor Mead Columns 1969–1970, Both Edited and Published by John Edward Heys by Bob Holman
- Philip Glass’s Words Without Music: A Memoir by Michael Coffey
Editor's Choice
A conditional archive or A score
for the past and future of
LIVING ROOM INDEX AND POOL
MATERIALS
dimensional lumber
microphone
visitors / guests
5 2 1 2 11 2 1 3 3 1 2 5 2 1 2 11
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
shirts, pants, shoes, poncho
laptops (two)
time, memory, technique
plywood, paint, foam, steel, glue
MAINTENANCE
vacuum the floor
fold the clothes
pile the stacks
re-paint the rocks
scatter the nails
RECORD
four anonymous selfies
nine times without applause / two times with
“it was like you were never here”
sneaker scuffs on the white platform
broken chair
carpet folds, tears, and fades
PLATFORMS and STAGES
FLOOR PLANS
GLASS / CHROME
ACTION
brick fits in one hand, cinderblock gripped by one, carried by two
laying down sod, laying down carpet, laying down plywood, laying down
folded knee allows the leg to lift, steps onto (shag) carpet
hands to face, step-touch, voice throw
SITES
theater (stage)
living room (stage)
FRAMES
construction, domestic, paradise
kitchen, basement, pool
field, ruin, fantasy
surfaces, meant to stay clean
materials, laid out in grids
ACTION
covers, Nijinsky
folds, unfolds, wash
FIELD
set and reset
BODIES
public and private (not so far apart)
postmodern and celebrity
dimensional (lumber)
digital (at home)
material, temporary
PILES
rubble, rock, asphalt, foam
dirty clothes, also clean
OBJECTS
anticipate the body
OBJECTS
chairs, beams, sticks, planks, tubes, slabs, table tops, fences, wedges, mats, carpets, cabinets, handles, I-beams, speakers, stereo, lights, recessed lighting, columns, vertical columns, benches, ramps, the pool, shelves
RULES
fragments make a (w)hole
fragments are placed, not fastened together
ECHOES
japanese gardens, ikea showrooms, sample apartments, rental units, condominiums, galleries, mazes, ruins
NOTES
rooms, lines, remnants
Living Room Index and Pool is an exhibition of sculpture by Yuri Masnyj and performance by Lauren Bakst with Emma Geisdorf that took place at Pioneer Works from March 13–April 26, 2015, and will continue to evolve this summer as part of the Open Sessions exhibition at The Drawing Center, New York.
Lauren Bakst makes performances.
Yuri Masnyj works in drawing and sculpture.
Related
For the past decade my sense of Bethany Ides’s work was based on hearsay, bits and scraps, or long distance perception.
The Polish artist recently mounted a new participatory installation on Hydra Island in Greece, where Nell McClister prompted him to talk about the core of his collaborative projects: community, experimentation, and spirituality.
Originally published in
BOMB 132,
Summer 2015
Featuring a cover with hand-drawn verse by Eileen Myles. Interviews with Carolee Schneemann, Nicole Eisenman, David Humphrey, Maggie Nelson, Justin Vivian Bond, Robert Grenier, Leigh Ledare, Chris Kraus, Moriah Evans, and more.
