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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

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June 2016

Rye Dag Holmboe

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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...

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February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

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February 2015

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

Friendship often requires the careful dance of shared time and being attentive to one another’s needs Recently when I visited San Francisco with my two closest friends, we spent a lot of time seeking cheap dinners at different times of day, according to the various cycles of our appetites—deli sandwiches, burritos, greasy slices of pizza, hot dogs slathered with sweet onions and mustard It became essential to learn the rhythms of each other’s bodies, aches and pains Then there is the matter of overcoming the small irritations, the disputes over rules for card games, or who owes money for last night’s round of drinks On day one of our trip we visited We Are Here at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the first retrospective dedicated to artist and activist Suzanne Lacy’s over-forty-year career Lacy is interested in hunger and waiting, sharing food, and the anticipation and patience that attends communality  As the exhibition shows, her formal and thematic concerns have remained pretty much consistent: food, dinner parties, tables, maps, quilting Among her best-known works is The Crystal Quilt (1985-7), for which she brought together more than 400 women over the age of 60 to discuss their views on growing older while collectively producing a quilt She has since staged various versions of this social action, including ‘Silver Action’ at Tate Modern in 2013 It’s because of works like this that I think of her career as productively ghostly and incomplete Lacy is committed to waiting things out, to seeing things through over and again — whether pleasurable, uncomfortable or violent   On display in the middle of the exhibition is a set of photographs depicting one of Lacy’s first collaborative performance works, Ablutions (1972) The images show three bathtubs in the middle of a gallery filled with blood and clay Broken eggshells and animal kidneys are scattered across the space In the early seventies, when sexual violence against a spouse was still legal in California, Lacy, Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel and Aviva Rahmani’s Ablutions (1972) placed women in

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August 2014

Rye Dag Holmboe

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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

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March 2011

Rye Dag Holmboe

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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. 10

Vern Blosum, Phantom

William E. Jones

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Issue No. 10

Chatsworth, established in 1888 in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, took its name from the family...

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April 2013

Popular Mechanics

Gareth Dickson

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April 2013

In simple terms, the process of combustion creates energy that is converted into motion. The ignition by the spark...

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Issue No. 12

After After

Johanna Drucker

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Issue No. 12

So many things are ‘over’ now that all the post- and neo- prefixes are themselves suffering from fatigue. Even...

 

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