miscellaneous

Visions of Apocalypse.

From Audra Wolowiec's activation through caretaking of Ann Hamilton's Guggenheim show to the collaboratively written fiction of Shelly Oria and Nelly Reifler, Bomb #145 seeks to reconfigure our ideas of authorship, participation, and other willful acts of co-presentation. This issue also has additional features and new literature from J.P. Sniadecki, Las Nietas de Nonó, Sherwin Bitsui, Diana Hamilton, Bomb's 2018 poetry contest winner, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, and many others.

Acousmatic Striptease, a performative text by Thibault Walter; Musique Action 2018; improvised music in the Netherlands; Ring-Modulation #28 by Kasper T. Toeplitz; interviews with Marisa Andersaon, Peter Ablinger, Christine Wodrascka; carte blanche to Richard Bokhobza and Thomas B.; chronicles and disc reviews…

Alain Freudiger on Max Frisch, Camille Paulhan on Jérémie Bennequin, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza et Marianne Mispelaëre, Warren Lambert, Erik Bullot on Michael Snow, Sylvie Lagnier on Jean-Marie Pontévia, Jacques Sicard, Denise Le Dantec, Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Stéphane Marte, Baptiste Gaillard, Fabien Clouette & Quentin Leclerc ; dossier “The Skin” (Caroline Parietti, Heidi Bucher, Kazumichi Hashimoto, Jacques Roman, Christine Bergé, David Collin), Jean-Guy Coulange, Philippe Baudouin...

A collective photographic series focusing on the on the subject of agalmatophilia—the sexual attraction for statues.

A collective reflection on the legacy of Max Neuhaus, the pionneer figure of sound installation art.

On the occasion of this 13th issue, the Japanese artist asked 46 participating artists to cultivate a hyacinth, and to give an account of this experience through artistic gestures, including paintings, photographs, poetry, haiku, essays, and observation diaries (with Yukinori Maeda, Masanao Hirayama, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Susan Cianciolo…).

Interviews with Chris Martin, Cy Gavin, Tauba Auerbach, Sam Hillmer, Amy Jenkins, Florian Meisenberg, John Akomfrah, Simone Forti, Ottessa Moshfegh, Anna Moschovakis…

Nina Garcia, Clark Gable, the music of Jacob Ullmann, the end of musical boundaries by Kasper T. Toeplitz, a text by Jean-Léon Pallandre, interviews with Thomas Bonvalet (Ocelle Mare) and Emmanuel Lalande (PiedNu), chronicles and disc reviews…

Bettina Funcke on how appropriation became cultural appropriation; Mary Flanagan on the history of Virtual Reality art since the cave paintings; Pablo Baler on Bio-Politics, Bio-Tech, Bio-Art and Bio-Fiction; James Gill on the death of subculture in the 21st century; image spreads by artist David Mramor and microdosing pioneer Paul Austin, plus much more.

Edgar Varese, Francois Tusques, Tristan Tzara, Thomas Bonvalet, Nick Cave, interview with saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki by Guillaume Belhomme, 90 book and music reviews.

The first issue of the “perpetual catalog” of Le Consortium, at the dawn of the fifth decade of the art center.

Climate change and land art in the American West; restoring the Lo Manthang temples in Nepal; Museums and the logic of social media; interviews with Torbjørn Rødland, Jason Moran; fashion designer Martin Margiela celebrated in two Parisian exhibitions; on Brazilian women artists; portfolio by photographer Wiktoria Wojciechowska…

This 4th issue of the anthropology journal explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art.

Special issue dedicated to the May 1968 events in France, including texts by Paul Ardenne, Jacques Donguy, Victor Muñoz, Giovanni Fontana, Charles Dreyfus, Julien Blaine, an interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit… Also on this issue: a special feature on Sociological art.

Initiales, the art and research magazine published by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, dedicates its eleventh issue to a major figure of contemporary sculpture, Isa Genzken.

Tribute to American sound poet Z'ev, interviews with Derek Bailey, Philippe Baudoin, Marc Sirguy from Modularsquare, illustrations by Richard Bokhobza and Thomas B, chronicles and disc reviews…

16th issue confronts the question of the narrative and the “anecdote”, with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.

Interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat; portfolio by Ville Kumpulainen; poetry and fiction; an essay by Terrance Hayes; journal by Yun-Fei Ji; exhibitions and books' reviews…

Current technological issues and new boundaries of human corporeality.

The review of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu (MAC's) inaugurates its new formula with the theme of the museum and its criticism by artists. This issue showcases a selection of contemporary and international artistic projects reflecting on the concept of museum. With artists Yto Barrada, Christoph Büchel, Jacques Charlier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tamar Guimarães, Jompet Kuswidananto, Wesley Meuris, Rei Naito, Ryue Nishizawa, Noah Purifoy, Dayanita Singh, Fiona Tan, and Fred Wilson.

Contemporary views on Egon Schiele; the controversial artistic treasury of the Gurlitt Collection; Macron's victory explained in literature; interviews with Giuseppe Penone and Lucy McKenzie; Glasgow: Britain's true artistic capital; photography in India; Tokyo's urbanistic issues; “Negative” section with Robert Menasse's Die Hauptstadt, Tonya Harding, Google, ballet's gender-free future, and a marriage advice for an American at Kensington Palace; portfolio by photographer Michele Borzoni.

Vincent Barras's poems-scores; the music of David Jackman and Organum by Paul Hegarty; Ring-Modulation # 25: "Some Classicism" by Kasper T. Toeplitz; 30 years of Metamkine: interview with Jérôme Noetinger and Franck Laplaine; carte-blanche to Patrick Renaud; chronicles and disc reviews…

Special feature “Blanchot and the narrative”; a study on Blanchot and photography; Jean-Luc Nancy; Philippe Jaccottet; a poem by the late Michel Butor…

The third issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Lieutenant Caramel, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Joël Hubaut, Andy Ingamells, Eduardo Kac, Maurice Lemaître, Loré Lixenberg, and Christoph Ogiermann.

Kurt Schwitters' Merz Manifesto; AMM by David Grubbs; Daunik Lazro's discography reviewed by Luc Bouquet and... Daunik Lazro; interviews with Anna Tjan from the label Dancing Wayang and Dave Phillips; on Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. Plus: some sixty book and record reviews.

The third issue of the erotic journal Féros, featuring Phoebe Clarke, Claire Dantzer, Victor Man, Anthony Pearson, Benoit Platéus, Georges Tony Stoll, Matthew Stone, Phillip Zach...).

Interviews with Lucy Dodd (by Rashid Johnson), Cate Giordano, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Jlin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Milford Graves, Meredith Monk and Jim Hodges, Don Mee Choi and Christian Hawkey, Friederike Mayröcker; portfolio by Laura Bruce; fictions by Klaus Kertess, Wendy Xu, Pierre Senges, Constance DeJong; an essay by Nuar Alsadir, and more.

Charlotte Moorman by Deborah Walker; manifesto for a 21th century avant-garde music by Ulrich Krieger; Ulrich Krieger by Kasper T. Toeplitz ; Ring-Modulation #24: “From idea to sound;” photographic series by Marie Combes; disc reviews, and more.

Five articles (by René Schérer, Bernard Desmars et Daniel Chérouvrier, Nathalie Brémand, Hélène Guérin, Jérôme Duwa), an unpublished document (a letter from Fourier written in 1834) and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.

Interview with P. Nicolas Ledoux and Pierre Beloüin on the occasion of Optical Sound's twenthieth anniversary; Hubert Selby Jr.; the discography of Etant donnés; a special section dedicated to Marjorie Cameron…

The 10th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori.

Second issue dedicated to the notion of risk in art, together with a booklet celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fountain, the iconic work by Duchamp. The magazine also features tributes to two recently deceased artists, Gusztav Metzger and Felipe Ehrenberg.

This issue explores the vast regions of lightness with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.

Interviews with Amit Dutta, Lisa Sanditz, Nina Katchadourian, Anoka Faruqee & Michelle Grabner, Suzanne Bocanegra, Adrienne Truscott, Marcus Steinweg, Mike Wallace, Lucy Ives; portfolio by Renee Gladman; a text by Kristen Gleason, the winner of BOMB's 2017 Fiction Contest; an essay by Jennifer Kabat; Édouard Louis's “New York diary”; books and shows reviews, and more.

Spring / summer issue of the French magazine dedicated to contemporary art, photography, and fashion, edited by Guillaume de Sardes: “writers and photographers”—a special feature with Maxime Du Camp, Claude Simon, Hervé Guibert, Denis Roche, Jacques Henric, and Alain Fleischer; artistic journeys in China; portraits and interviews, photo creations…

Four artistic destinies at the heart of the Tiananmen Square protests; Hudson Yards, Manhattan; Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck; London's museums and the British gay history; American women artists in the Age of Trump; Paris's museums get hooked on all things biological; Mexico City artists beyond modern traditions; interviews with Camille Henrot and Liz Glynn; portfolio by Li Ran; “Negative” section with the Seagram building's new restaurants, a farewell to Colette, Gustavo Dudamel, and more.

Researcher Juliette Volcler on sound in public space; on identities and influences in music; an essay by Kasper Toeplitz; carte blanche to Patrick Renaud; Summer festivals, disc reviews, and more.

Special anniversary edition, featuring 50 monographic stories from the magazine's past issues, in addition to a 30+page commissioned project by conceptual artist Martine Syms.

A special issue dedicated to John Giorno, in the framework of Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” in New York.

Modernist master Florine Stettheimer; South Korea's gangster cinema; saving the National Endowment for the Arts; interviews with Charline Von Heyl and Christodoulos Panayiotou; “Negative” section with Rei Kawakubo, Eurovision, Macron, and more; reviews and summer's agenda; portfolio by Jane Chang Mi…

The fourth issue of Art Against Art is looking at the change in temperature that has occured since last fall and the challenges art faces such as the rise in nativism in the West, the naissance of the influence of A.I. in art and the growing influence of the Chinese art market.

The second issue of the French magazine dedicated to jazz and experimental music. Featuring: John Stevens, Bertrand Denzler, Piero Manzoni, Michel Henritzi, Ignaz Schick, Arthur Doyle's Nature Boy, contributions by David Toop, Luc Bouquet, Pierre Cécile, Philippe Robert, Guillaume Tarche, Guillaume Belhomme, and more than 60 reviews.

First of two issues dedicated to the notion of risk in art.

Gagarin's final issue, featuring original texts by James Welling, Yuki Okumura, Kapwani Kiwanga, Fabio Zimbres, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Kasper Bosmans, Eric Baudelaire, Ieva Miseviciute.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

The magazine dedicated to drawing makes its comeback with nine long-length interviews with Sarah Tritz, Maximage, Ernest T. (Taroop & Glabel), Masanao Hirayama, les éditions Matière, Aidan Koch, Yannick Val Gesto, Stefanie Leinhos, and Galerie 126.

Interviews with Dominique Grimaud by Philippe Robert, and Noël Akchoté by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Jérôme Noetinger; the Japanese musical scene by Jacques Debout and Michel Henritzi, visual contribution by Marie Combe, tribute to Bobby Bradford, Fred Van Hove by Gérard Rouy, Italy and the work of Attila & Jacopo Faravelli by Jean-Kristoff Camps…

The drawing tools, Richard Tuttle, Karina Bisch, Hugo Daniel, Gerard Ter Borch Le Jeune, Bianca Argimon, Mïrka Lugosi, Catharina van Eetvelde, Cameron Jamie, la collection du Musée Atger, selection of books by Brett Littman, FANFICTION 93, Anthea Lubat, Amélie Lucas-Gary and Maude Marris, Bianca Argimon...

9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.