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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
The controversy over Santiago Sierra’s installations, in which hired laborers perform meaningless tasks, has gained in intensity. Mexican artist Teresa Margolles enjoys a similar notoriety: she finds tools for commentary on social unrest in the morgue.
>>>Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves refers to himself as a maker of things, and it’s no coincidence that the people in his paintings are always holding objects. London-based researcher and writer Anne Walmsley has been in dialogue with Greaves for 10 years.
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Brooke Alfaro’s figurative paintings were becoming increasingly grotesque visions of contemporary Latin American society. Four years ago he picked up a video camera and started recording the intimate lives of Panama City’s more impoverished denizens.
>>>The distinctive language and structure of Erna Brodber’s novels comes as much from James Joyce’s Ulysses as from the polyphonic vernacular of her native Jamaica. Keshia Abraham queries the author on her excavation of forgotten histories.
>>>Jorge Volpi’ s novel In Search of Klingsor, the first volume in a planned trilogy, is a historical fiction set among the foremost minds of the twentieth century in the U.S. and postwar Germany.
>>>A member of Bob Marley’s powerful backup singing trio, the I-Threes, Judy Mowatt was also the first Jamaican woman to record a solo reggae album when Black Woman was released by Tuff Gong in 1979. She went on to have a remarkable solo career.
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Cofounder of the influential reggae group Third World, Ibo Cooper produced some of the most dynamic and sophisticated reggae tunes ever recorded. As songwriter, keyboardist and vocalist for the group, he spent 25 years taking reggae around the world.
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Jesús Tenreiro-Degwitz is a renowned Venezuelan architect and esteemed teacher whose buildings reflect his concern for truth and for the improvement of living conditions for the urban citizen.
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