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Rye Dag Holmboe
Rye Dag Holmboe is a writer and PhD candidate in History of Art at University College, London. He has recently co-authored and co-edited the book JocJonJosch: Hand in Foot, published by the Sion Art Museum, Switzerland (2013). He has recently edited Jolene, an artist's book which brings together the works of the poet Rachael Allen and the photographer Guy Gormley, which will be published later this year. His writings have appeared in The White Review, Art Licks and in academic journals.

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Art and its Functions: Recent Work by Luke Hart

Art

June 2016

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

June 2016

Luke Hart’s Wall, recently on display at London’s William Benington Gallery, is a single, large-scale sculpture composed of a series of steel tubes held...

Art

February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

February 2015

White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and...

dear angélica   dear angélica I can’t make it I got stuck in the elevator between the ninth and tenth floors and by the time the elevator man realised it was already ten-thirty   dear angélica I can’t make it I had a little problem at home my hair got caught in the washing machine actually it’s still stuck now I’m dictating this email to my neighbour   dear angélica I can’t make it my dog died and was resurrected and ascended to heaven I spent the whole afternoon involved with firemen and aerial ladder trucks   dear angélica I can’t make it I lost my bank card in an atm I went to complain to the security guard who was actually a crook he stole my purse and I had amnesia from the shock   dear angélica I can’t make it my boss called at the last minute saying he went to hawaii on a motorcycle and I had to go to work in a bikini so I caught a cold   dear angélica I can’t make it I’m in a cybercafe by the orinoco I was kidnapped by a terrorist group please deposit ten thousand dollars in account 11308-0 at citibank valparaiso branch thanks I’ll pay you back when I get home     *     woman in red   what could she want this woman in red she must want something since she’s wearing that dress it can’t be just a casual choice it could have been yellow green or even blue but she chose red she knows what she wants and she chose that dress and she’s a woman so based on these facts i can conclude i know what she wants it’s elementary, dear watson: what she wants is me it’s me she wants it could only be me what else could it be     *     grad   men women are born they grow they see how others are born and how they disappear from this mystery a cemetery arises they bury bodies then forget   men women are born they grow they see how others are born and how they disappear they record, record with their phones make spreadsheets then forget   they hope their time comes slowly men women don’t know what comes next so they go to grad school   men women are born they grow they know that one day they’re born and the next they disappear but that’s not why they forget to turn off the lights and the gas     *     These poems were selected for inclusion in the January 2015 Translation Issue

Contributor

August 2014

Rye Dag Holmboe

Contributor

August 2014

Rye Dag Holmboe is a writer and PhD candidate in History of Art at University College, London. He has...

feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

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October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

Existere: Documenting Performance Art

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September 2012

David Gothard

Jo Melvin

John James

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

September 2012

The following conversation was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in May 2012. The event took place almost a year after a...
Gabriel Orozco: Cosmic Matter and Other Leftovers

Art

March 2011

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

March 2011

‘To live,’ writes Walter Benjamin, ‘means to leave traces’. As one might expect, Benjamin’s observation is not without a certain melancholy. Traces are lost...

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Art

Issue No. 2

Sri Lankan Contemporary Art

Josephine Breese

Art

Issue No. 2

Sri Lanka has developed a thriving, vital contemporary art scene over the past twenty years. New artists are emerging...

poetry

March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

Interview

October 2014

Interview with Vanessa Place

Kyoo Lee

Jacob Bromberg

Interview

October 2014

Vanessa Place is widely considered to be one of the figureheads of contemporary conceptual poetry, yet while books such...

 

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