As artists, we have to find the antidote to this darkness right now, to how everything feels so compressed rather than expanded.
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Meredith Monk
MOTHER IS PASSING. COME AT ONCE by Simon Lee
- Amy Sillman by R. H. Quaytman
- Ben Rivers by Coleen Fitzgibbon
- Paulo Bruscky by Antonio Sergio Bessa
- Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello
- Gonçalo M. Tavares by Pedro Sena Nunes
- Rodrigo Rey Rosa by Francisco Goldman
- Julia Holter by Ben Vida
- My Barbarian by Andrea Fraser
Interviews
- Sarah Charlesworth, 1947 - 2013 by Betsy Sussler
- Picturing the Unsayable: Carl E. Hazlewood by Patricia Spears Jones
- Operation Massacre by Ellie Robins
- Between Artists: Thom Andersen / William E. Jones by Andrew Lampert
- Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process by Stuart Horodner
- Beyond This Point Are Monsters by Alexandra Gauss
- Savage Coast by Stefanie Sobelle
- Anfang Gut. Alles Gut. Actualization of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun 1913 by Veronika Vogler
Editor's Choice
- Ben Durham by Christopher Stackhouse
- Florian Hecker by Ben Vida
- Miyoshi Barosh by Annetta Kapon
Artists on Artists
We called Walter again today but with no success.
As you know, we have been calling him every day since Sunday but get no response. He must be away on vacation but we’ll continue to try.
Father Lombardy is on vacation. We called Our Lady of Victory and was told he will be away until Aug 8th.
We think those at your parole hearing will understand that the one you want to represent you is on vacation because this is the most prevalent time for vacations.
We called Walter again today but with no success.
As you know, we have been calling him every day since Sunday but get no response. He must be away on vacation but we’ll continue to try.
Father Lombardy is on vacation. We called Our Lady of Victory and was told he will be away until Aug 8th.
We think those at your parole hearing will understand that the one you want to represent you is on vacation because this is the most prevalent time for vacations.
Do you understand the situation you put me in?
Mr. Rust is not stupid and he knows my father and as far as I know he could also correspond with my husband.
That you reacted with such jealousy did not make any sense to me. What got into you? You’ve never been so insulting to me in the past. Why now? You must have known that I was flattering Mr. Rust in order to protect us.
In the past few days I have begun to think that you are looking for a reason to seperate—an excuse.
So what’s the real reason? Are you in love with someone else? I don’t think so. Is it because you are overworked at the labor camps?
Simon Lee works in photography, video and installation making exhibitions and participating in residencies internationally. Lee’s most recent project MOTHER IS PASSING. COME AT ONCE, a multi-screen, kinetic installation was on view at Cristin Teirney Gallery in New York City in 2013. He has shown work at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, the Tinguely Museum in Basel, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Moscow International Film Festival and the Posnan Bienalle, Poland.
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Originally published in
BOMB 125,
Fall 2013
Featuring interviews with Amy Sillman, Paulo Bruscky, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Ben Rivers, Julia Holter, and My Barbarian.
