
BOMB 149 Fall 2019

Editor’s Choice
Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
Jack Briece’s Heterophonious Fool
Wioletta Greg’s Accommodations
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society’s Mandatory Reality
Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam’s The Sweet Requiem
Interviews
Art: Antoine Catala and Dan Graham
Theory + Practice: Atelier Bow-Wow
Film: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Literature: Rion Amilcar Scott
Literature: Carmen Giménez Smith and Douglas Kearney
First Proof
PORTFOLIO
FICTION
POETRY
“Aplomb Is the Most Tender Word”
COMIC
ESSAY
JOURNAL
ruby onyinyechi amanze & Wura-Natasha Ogunji
"just a note; artist to artist"
Who Is Michael Jang? Reviewed by Stephen Hilger
The artist’s first monograph makes a case for Jang’s place in twentieth-century photography nearly fifty years after he began making pictures…

This fall, Concentric Circles will press to vinyl Heterophonious Fool—composer Jack Briece’s sole commercially-released recording…
Korakrit Arunanondchai by Martha Kirszenbaum
As he prepares his musical—part video, part performance—for Performa 19, the Thai-born artist shares thoughts on Ghost Cinema, the ritual circle, storytelling, and empathy.

The two artists discuss pleasure and participatory viewership in their work, and how each is linked to opposing qualities of discomfort and alienation.

The Atelier’s research into urban morphology and their transformation of its precepts form the basis for Made in Tokyo: Architecture and Living, 1964/2020, an exhibition opening at the Japan Society this October.

Leigh visited the conceptual artist’s New York studio, where they exchanged ideas about public engagement, generating community, and practicing acts of resistance in the art world.

Bliumis paints people who serve—cab drivers, waiters, hairdressers, nurses—along with their indifferent patrons. With fellow painter Gangloff he talks composition, color, and brushes.

Shot on a vintage news camera, with a script containing appropriated texts, The Plagiarists is a sendup of indie movie tropes and notions of creative authenticity.

The World Doesn’t Require You, with its fabulist interrogations of American history, imagines a Maryland town founded by members of the only successful American slave revolt.