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INCONVERSATION

ALMA EGGER with Joachim Pissarro

Art

Fresh Window Gallery presented the exhibition NightLight from September 5 through October 18, 2014. The two-person show featured the work of Swiss-born painter Marc Egger and Japenese-Russian painter and sculptor, Miya Ando.

FEATURE CREEPS
How Pandora’s Music Genome Project Misrepresents the Way We Hear Music

by Dave Mandl

Music

When you’re a Silicon Valley tool with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Among other things, this means that nearly any object or phenomenon known to man is reducible to some formula or algorithm, and thus replicable—only better!—in a lab or startup garage.

INCONVERSATION

NOW IS THE DOMAIN OF THE NOW
ENRICO D. WEY with Jaime Shearn Coan

Dance

I met Enrico Wey during a heat wave in August 2013. Once we got to talking, Wey mentioned the genesis of his then-current project: a slim book of fragmented prose called água Viva, written by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

INCONVERSATION

CROSSOVER ARTIST
CLAUDIA LA ROCCO with Siobhan Burke

Books

I first met Claudia La Rocco in 2009, when I took her Writing on Dance class at what was then Dance Theater Workshop. The course began from the simple premise, a revelation to me at the time, that criticism is an art form in itself.

Politics Without Politics

by Anselm Jappe

Field Notes

Must it be taken then as an article of faith that opposition to capitalism, or to its contemporary excesses, goes via what is commonly called politics? It is clear that nothing would have changed if Ségolène Royal, the 2007 French Socialist Party candidate for president, had been elected instead of rightist Nicolas Sarkozy.

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PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear Friends and Readers,

by Phong Bui

We managed to complete the elaborate installation of Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior just a few minutes before the opening reception on Thursday, October 9. Whew!

GUESTCRITIC

Translating Communities

by Mary Ann Caws

Picking up on a thread from the last Brooklyn Rail Critics Page, about haunting, and who and what haunts you, I first think of André Breton’s Nadja and its beginning: “Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I ‘haunt.’”

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