The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Andrew Miller05.22.17
In a time of high anxiety and questionable health care, finding ways to cope with even such necessities as air travel can become full of terror. Andrew Miller opens up about his complicated past with mental distress and the many forms of medication.
What An Investment in Black Life Looks Like: An Interview with Quenton Baker
Richard Chiem05.09.17
Quenton Baker in conversation with Richard Chiem about his book, This Glittering Republic, which unflinchingly dives deep into many questions surrounding the state of blackness in America.
Sound and Not
Grant Maierhofer05.08.17
How does noise change who we are? What is the difference between noise as music and mere cacophony? Grant Maierhofer meditates on the influence of chaotic audio in his life, including SUNN O))), Joy Division, and The Body.
In Search of Duende: Marina Abramović’s Feral Power
Bradyn Sloan05.04.17
“The ephemerality and immateriality of the evening lurk in the vaulted space, threaten the elevated precise present, and host duende, which by nature comes awake when time and element are allocated as such.” Bradyn Sloan elegantly charts the duende within a recent Seattle visit by Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramović.
Case Clown
Mairead Case04.27.17
What does it mean to perform as a clown? What can be gleaned from the experience and carried over into life, creation?
PLIE, TENDU, DEGAGE: 3 MEDITATIONS ON DANCE
Devin Kelly04.24.17
“Disengage. Set free. Leave. Forgive. Never look back. Look back. Lot’s wife. Orpheus. Fear. Freefall. Loving. Never loving again. Pillar of salt. Banishment. Disembodied, disemboweled, disembarked. Divorce.” Devin Kelly provides a moving exploration of the intersection between lives and bodies.
IN CONDITIONS OF INSUFFICIENT LIGHT
Katie Burke04.19.17
“Dear Mom, I am never where I say I am but I am sure that by now, you know this. My hair is only getting shorter with age.” New work from Katie Burke.
Should A Cyborg Punch a Nazi? An Interview with Mark O’Connell
Drew Toal04.17.17
“Will humanity use technology to upgrade ourselves into gods, or will the technology itself render us obsolete? Even if we could live forever, should we?” Drew Toal dives deep into cyborg ethics with Mark O’Connell, author of To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death.
In The Red Barn: A Conversation with Nat Baldwin
Troy James Weaver04.11.17
Nat Baldwin in conversation with Troy James Weaver about his debut work of fiction, The Red Barn, out now from Calamari Press.
MORTIFICATIONS
Adam Fleming Petty04.10.17
Adam Fleming Petty examines the value overlap between hardcore punk and Christianity, based on his experiences growing up in late 90s rural Indiana.
