NUMBER 110 / COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA/ WINTER 2010
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CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS, WRITERS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS, MUSICIANS-SINCE 1981
BOMB/ NUMBER 110 / WINTER 2010
CONTENTS
ARTISTS ON ARTISTS Esperanza Mayobre by Jose Ruiz Lugar a Dudas by Jose Tomas Giraldo Nascimento I Lovera by Gabriela Rangel
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BOMB SPECIFIC Antonieta Sosa
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BLAST FROM THE PAST Roberto Bolano by Carmen Boullosa Number 78 I Winter 2002
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THE WICK by Alvaro Barrios
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INTERVIEWS
NATIONAL
ENDO W MEN T FOR THE ARTS
A great nation
deserves great art.
The Americas Issue is made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Fundaci6n Cisneros, Colecci6n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; and the Reed Foundation. Contributing editors to the 11th Annual Americas Issue: Carmen Boullosa, Carlos Brillembourg, Sergio Chejfec, Jose Luis Falconi, Francisco Goldman, Carlos Gutierrez, Silvana Paternostro, Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, Gabriela Rangel, and Daniel Shapiro. Original interviews in Spanish available on BOMBsite.com.
on the cover: Antonio Caro, Installation photo of Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger, Bogota Planetarium, 1972. Courtesy of the artist.
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ANTONIO CARO by Victor Manuel Rodriguez Caro believes his most important work to be Homage to Manuel Quintin Lame, a performance in which he retrieves the indigenous hero from oblivion. Caro and Rodriguez delve into Warhol, astronomy, and national politicking to find out why.
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EVELIO ROSERO by Antonio Ungar Evelio Rosero, the Colombian author of The Armies, says of his art: "This madness, this knife's edge where reality and unreality take place, are here; they breathe around every street corner, and they are what propel my writing."
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CONVERSATION: SERGIO FAJARDO and GIANCARLO MAZZANTI The mastermind behind Medellin's urban transformation is Sergio Fajardo, a mathematician, professor-turned-mayor, and a Colombian presidential hop~ful. With architect Mazzanti, he discusses the methodology of hope.
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DULCE GOMEZ by Rafael Castillo Zapata Dulce Gomez makes assemblages and installations that synthesize calculation and chance. Castillo Zapata queries the artist on systems, psychoanalysis, and Benjamin's essay on Baudelaire.
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ANA TERESA TORRES by Carmen Boullosa Torres, one of Venezuela's most respected authors and essayists, began her professional life as a psychoanalyst. With fellow novelist Boullosa, she discusses the roles of memory and listening, tools of both trades, in her writing.
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CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ by Estrellita B. Brodsky Artist Cruz-Diez has lived in Caracas, Barcelona, and Paris. His interview is excerpted from Brodsky's extensive oral histories with the seminal experimenter whose work developed a participatory phenomenology of color.
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JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ by Silvana Paternostro The novelist's latest, The Informers, tells untold tales. One is the story of Colombia's German and Jewish emigres on the eve of and aftermath of World War II. Paternostro and Vasquez hash out this and other dark chapters in Colombia's history.
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JAVIER TELLEZ by Pedro Reyes Tellez casts and collaborates with the mentally disabled to "cure the sane of their lucidity." Reyes and Tellez muse over the philosophical underpinnings of theater and film-from Aristotle to Godard.
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MARIO GALEANO TORO by Marc Nasdor The Colombian-born music cumbia, anchored by the scrape and click from a guacharaca and a woodblock, has become the blank canvas for a new international genre. Musicologist and leader of the band Frente Cumbiero, Mario Galeano Toro explains cumbia's sonic boom.
FIRST PROOF: BOMB'S LITERARY SUPPLEMENT LUIS ENRIQUE BELMONTE: Poems
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CAROLINA LOZADA: "Theta"
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VICTOR MANUEL GAVIRIA: Poems
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YOLANDA PANTIN: Poems
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FEDERICO VEGAS: From Distant Cousin
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HECTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE: From Forgotten We Shall Be
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IGOR BARRETO: From Catama
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ANTONIO UNGAR: "My Grandfather's Disintegration"
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LUIS MOLINA-PANTIN: Portfolio: NarcoArchitecture and its Contributions to the Community
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