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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Julie Mehretu’s sprawling, layered paintings unravel the constructs and conventions of our often violent environment. Lawrence Chua talks with Mehretu about the interstices among geography, architecture, language and media that her work articulates.
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In The Seventh Beggar, Pearl Abraham has created a novel about the nature of storytelling beginning with Genesis. She takes us into a world that ranges from golems to robotics, mystical systems to artificial intelligence.
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Robert Antoni’s first novel, Divina Trace, stunned the literary world winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel. Antoni continues to explore the voluptuous and volatile Caribbean and the legacy of its New World bloodlines.
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Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made nearly 30 films, all of which have been seen by musician and producer Jim O’Rourke. Lesser known in the US than in Japan, his films are mesmerizing, visually stunning narratives with international relevance.
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Legendary composer-improviser and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell is best known for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago over the past several decades, where he continues to make breakthrough innovations and influence musicians around the world.
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Portland native Brad Cloepfil is a busy man these days. With his firm, Allied Works Architecture, he is engaged in projects including the expansion of the Seattle Art Museum and the controversial renovation of Two Columbus Circle in New York.
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