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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...

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...

we eat our own tongues              wash off the dirt the villagers flung                        coat them in flour ground by our foreign                                 hands   season with kauderwelsch and fry the fuck out of them                mother plates them garnished                                    with unspeakable accents                                            her hair coiffed in the style all the ladies in the village wear   father’s palate thick with a dialect                                       that cannot be excised                                               takes out his otherness   puts it in a glass on the sill                                                             where it grins at passer-by    this is how we eat: swallowing   the light filtered by the jalousie stripes us all in sun                     and shade   outside a single peal of the big bronze bell                                        announces a quarter past normal                                                                            the scraping of knives and forks on plates up and down                              the streets echoing like mechanical birdsong    sister pours sips of her blood    into our mouths from a cup made of a gold                                                 so lustrous it makes the future seem impossibly    bright   brother leans back    balancing on the hind legs of his chair   stuck             in the moment of falling    his mouth open                                      full of broken                                                          swings stolen from the playground                                                                                        behind the house where we lived this is us   mealtimes are holy and we the congregation                                   knees studded with gravel are learning                                               how to pray again   to mortal gods   with dirty hands                                                      with chipped off teeth   and accents thick as bunker walls   made of bread

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

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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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Interview

June 2015

Interview with Moyra Davey

Hannah Gregory

Interview

June 2015

One way to think about Moyra Davey’s way of working across photography, film and text is in terms of...

Interview

January 2016

Interview with Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Roland Glasser

Interview

January 2016

Roof terrace of the Shangri-La hotel, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA; late afternoon, 8 October 2015. We ensconce ourselves in...

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April 2017

The White Review Short Story Prize 2017 Shortlist (US & Canada)

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April 2017

click on the title to read the story   1,040 MPH by Alexander Slotnick   Abu One-Eye by Rav...

 

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