I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
Li Young Lee
Takashi Arai, May 21, 2012. Annular Eclipse at 7:42 AM, Onahama, Fukushima No.1, 2012, daguerreotype, 10 × 7.5 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
Takashi Arai is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Kawasaki and Tono, Japan. Major photography projects include Here and There—Tomorrow’s Islands, Exposed in a Hundred Suns, and Tomorrow’s History. Since 2017, Arai has worked as a researcher for interdisciplinary studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, and the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Jacob Kirkegaard is a sound artist and founding member of the sound art collective freq_out and the nonprofit TOPOS. This year, he released the record We like We & Jacob Kirkegaard: Time is Local on Sonic Pieces, Berlin.
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For our 150th issue, we have redesigned our flagship print magazine. This design reaffirms our mandate to deliver the artist’s voice, supporting the vital discourse that appears in BOMB with vivid imagery and innovative juxtapositions that encourage dialogue across the arts—from conversations between artists, writers, and performers to exciting literature. We present exchanges in their formative state: revelatory, fluid, and iconoclastic.
This issue features interviews with Bruce Pearson, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cathy Park Hong, Christiane Jatahy, and Seth Price, as well as fiction from Amelia Gray, Deb Olin Unferth, and Jenny Wu, and poetry from Sawako Nakayasu, Andrei Monastyrski, and Bob Holman.
I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
Li Young Lee