A report from the Rebel’s Republic, a breakaway state in western Bosnia where the Minister of Smiles rules alongside the Minister of Artificial Blondes.
A short film. Dormant sites of World’s Fairs past breed an eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure.
A video melodrama in six parts. A man, a woman, and a magical hairbrush, made of metal but light as plastic.
A series of studies from a stint at the psychiatric ward, with illustrative slides.
The Guggenheim Bilbao’s latest installation is a 1,400-pound bronze pun.
An introduction to and dispatch from the PRB, a literary service in the public domain.
“Short corporation: / victim in a revolving door.” Four poems and a note on method.
“Afghanistan is great / but much smaller than previously assumed.” Fourteen poems from fourteen countries.
“They say failure is rookie speech, Gabbie, but that’s the best part of the book.” Two groups of poetic fabric samples and notes on construction.
Remaking photography with Google Street View: the silver lining of a world under total surveillance.
“We wander for the sense of place that our journey grants.” A portfolio of Google-sourced photographs.
On an installation that became a romance novel and then a sculpture, and courting the New York Public Library’s acquisitions department.
“It was like looking in a distorted mirror.” The artist discusses his Global Village Idiot and a foray into MySpace self-portraiture.
Exquisite corpse or murder mystery?
Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles–based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck.
The story of Vera & Linus, whose love grows stronger with each slaughter.
On Harry Stephen Keeler's “web-work” mystery novels and the language and terrors of the Internet.
The first complete English translation of the Chilean novelist's 1999 speech accepting the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives. Translated by David Noriega.
