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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...

Interstate 95, September 2016   Celeste sat on the front seat wearing her black turtleneck sweater She had three sweaters: black, blue, and festive Celeste got carsick if forced to sit in the back seat She liked to sit in the front, upright as an Egyptian, eyes on the road The baby also got carsick but no position helped Eliot seemed to find the entire world abrasive   I glanced in the mirror Mimi sat with one arm around the infant seat, adding an extra fleshy layer of protection One of her eyes was lined in black kohl, the other bare Eliot must’ve interrupted Oddly, I preferred the bare eye, the pink lids curling petal-like Someone honked You’d think I’d have been better at keeping my eyes on the road after my father’s death, but the long traffic-clogged sweep rendered me indolent   ‘Hey, cheer up It might be cathartic Maybe you’ll get over avoiding an entire country’   ‘What?’   ‘Catharsis Meeting your mom Closure Yada Yada’ Mimi was smiling, in her I’m pretending to be an upbeat positive person way Her gestures of comfort were often sincerity masquerading as irony   ‘She’s a bitch, but so what? I said I’ll go I’ll go No big deal’   ‘Every time someone asks about art from Japan you turn them away If it’s a choice between your issues and the Waldorf crèche, I’d rather we wasted money on the crèche’   ‘It’s not just my mother, okay’ There were lots of reasons I didn’t deal Japanese art That market was saturated, and I didn’t like Tokyo You couldn’t eat on the subway, and they used soy substitute in their ice cream   ‘Oh?’ Mimi rubbed her neck, which had been giving her pain since the pregnancy   ‘I mean like you know the legend about how the goddess who gave birth to Japan had another child first’ Mimi cracked her neck, and irritation swooped through my knuckles ‘This baby of theirs, he had no bones Hiruko The name literally means leech child’   ‘Jay’   ‘So what did Japan’s mom do? She pushes this baby out to sea’   ‘Jay, you’ve told me this story already You told me after the first ultrasound’   ‘But you get

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...

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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

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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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Issue No. 3

Rehearsal Room

KJ Orr

fiction

Issue No. 3

He was one of those people you see every day and start to believe you know when in fact...

fiction

April 2013

The Story I'm Thinking Of

Jonathan Gibbs

fiction

April 2013

There were seven of us sat around the table. Seven grown adults, sat around the table. It was late. We...

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December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

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December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

 

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