Refresh!
Our first edition for the relaunch is a wonderful introduction to great works across generations, cultures and worlds - inspired by color, light, bliss and a fresh attitude.
Featuring artist Rupprecht Geiger on the cover.
Akron/Family
Akron/Family is a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and is currently based in New York on the Dead Oceans label. Though each member of the band — Miles Seaton, Seth Olinsky, Dana Janssen and formerly Ryan Vanderhoof can be relegated to loosely defined roles (drummer, guitarist, bassist, vocalist), all of them in fact play several instruments and sing. In addition to their solo debut in 2005, the band played behind Michael Gira on his Angels of Light project as well as splitting a full length CD with Angels of Light. In 2006, the band released an EP, “Meek Warrior,” a collaboration with master drummer/hero Hamid Drake. Sometime between the completion of [2007 release] Love Is Simple and Akron/Family’s 2007 U.S. tour, Vanderhoof left Akron/Family to live in a Buddhist Dharma center in the Midwest. The band has also released several tour EPs featuring demos and other recordings. In May of 2009, the trio released Set ‘em Wild, Set ‘em Free. In January of 2011 they released their most recent album, “S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT .” The band is currently on tour in support of this album.
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Antony and The Johnsons
This New York-based chamber cabaret outfit is led by the striking, androgynous figure of singularly named performance artist Antony (b. Antony Hegarty). In 1995 he assembled a backing group, the self-styled Antony and the Johnsons. The group built up a cult following at hip New York clubs such as the Kitchen and Knitting Factory, but their debut album Blue Angel remained unreleased until current 93 leader David Tibet signed Antony and the Johnsons to his Durtro label. The cast list of musicians on the album, released under the title Antony and the Johnsons in 1998, included transsexual artist Baby Dee (harp), Francois Gehin (bass), Todd Cohen (drums), Charles Neilson (guitar), and a number of string and woodwind players. In 2004, Antony and the Johnsons signed a new recording contract with the Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian, completing work on their second album “I Am A Bird Now” by the end of 2004. Antony has also filmed cameo roles in the movies "Animal Factory" and "Wilde Side".
Directed by Joie Iacono featuring footage of the "Pink Lady" by James Elaine.
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Beans
Raised in White Plains, New York, Beans (aka Mr. Ballbeam), was a member of the influential Brooklyn Boom Poetic Collective. He then found acclaim merging hip-hop with electronica as one-third of the influential N.Y.C. progressive rap outfit Antipop Consortium. In 2000, Beans released his solo work The Nude Paper on 12” on the Mo Wax record label. After the breakup of the Consortium he released his solo full-length debut, Tomorrow Right Now, on Warp Records in 2003. After a series of tours with acts as diverse as the Rapture, Out Hud, El-P, Prefuse 73, and Mike Ladd, Beans released his follow-up EP, the Now, Soon, Someday in 2004, and the full-length Shock City Maverick in that same year. It was followed by Only, a collaboration with avant-garde jazzers William Parker and Hamid Drake and was released by 2006 by the Thirsty Ear label's Blue Series. For his 2008, Thorns, he handled his own production, and 2011’s End It All featured guest producers such as Four Tet, Clark, and Interpol’s Sam Fogarino on the Anticon label. Also in 2011, Beans reteamed with HPrizm, Matthew Shipp, and William Parker for the album Knives from Heaven.
Courtesy of Anticon Records.
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Bili Bidjocka
Bili Bidjocka was born in Douala, Cameroun in 1962 and now lives in Paris, Brussels, and New York. He has shown in the Biennale of Johannesburg, The New Musuem of Contemporary Art of New York, The Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. He founded and directed the contemporary art center Matrix Art Project in Brussels.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Second Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Björk
Björk Gudmundsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1965. She released her first album at the age of 11 on Icelandic record label Fálkinn. She was later part of the band The Sugarcubes, and was signed to One Little Indian. They released their first album, Life’s Too Good, in 1988. The Sugarcubes split up in 1992 and Bjork pursued her solo career and has since released seven albums, the most recent being Medulla, Volta, and Biophilia. She has performed in many films in her career, including “The Juniper Tree (1987)”, “Dancer in the Dark (2000)”, and “Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)”. She has been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and an Academy Award. She was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, has won four BRIT awards, and won four Iceland Music Awards.
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Braids
BRAIDS is an art rock band from Calgary, Alberta. It consists of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin Tufts, and Taylor Smith. They have opened for Deerhunter and toured with Holly Miranda. Their debut album Native Speaker was released in January 2011 and is available in the US through Kanine Records and in Canada through Flemish Eye Records.
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Chunky Move
Founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned a reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. The company’s work is both diverse in form and content; to date the company has created a number of works for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work. Chunky Move’s multi-tiered programming initiatives foster and support a strong and vibrant dance culture in its home city of Melbourne and also creates critically acclaimed and popular larger productions for touring. Recent cities toured include: New York, Hong Kong, Beirut and Barcelona. In 2008, Chunky Move received Best Dance Work for Glow and Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production for Mortal Engine at the Live Performance Australia Helpmann Awards. In 2009, Mortal Engine received an Honorary Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Hybrid Arts category.
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Dorothea Grossman
Dorothea Grossman lives, works and writes in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in numerous poetry journals and magazines. She is the author of “Cuttings: Selected Poetry 1978-1988”, “Poems From Cave 17”, and “Museum of Rain” published by Take Out Publications in 2001. The First Time I Ate Sushi was published by Zerx Press in 2008.
"I have to tell you", "Noon Concert", "I knew something was wrong", "I allow myself", and "It is not so much that I miss you" first appeared in the March 2010 issue of Poetry Magazine.
www.pfmentum.com/PFMCD021.html
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Dr. Alexander Leemans
Dr. Alexander Leemans recent and ongoing research focuses on modelling, processing, and analyzing diffusion MRI data for investigating microstructural and architectural tissue properties. He works for the Department of Radiology at the Image Sciences Institute in The Netherlands.
Courtesy of Dr. Leemans.
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Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone was born in Garessio, Italy, in 1947. He has exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Drawing Center in New York, MAMBO in Bologna, and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. He now lives in San Raffaele Cimena, Italy.
Excerpt from Gagarin, Third Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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H.L. Hix
H. L. Hix was born in Oklahoma and raised in various small towns in the south. After earning his B.A. from Belmont and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Hix taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and was an administrator at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He now teaches at the University of Wyoming. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai University and the University of Texas, been the “Distinguished Visitor” at the NEO MFA, and taught in the low-residency MFA at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His poetry, essays, and other works have been published in McSweeney’s, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Boston Review, Poetry, and other journals, been recognized with an NEA Fellowship, the Grolier Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Peregrine Smith Award, and been translated into Spanish, Russian, Urdu, and other languages. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming, with his partner, the poet Kate Northrop.
Courtesy of the author.
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Jüri Talvet
Jüri Talvet was born in 1945 in Estonia. He received his MA from the University of Tartu in 1972 and his PhD from St. Petersburg University in 1981. He has chaired the Estonian Association of Comparitive Literature since 1994 and is the editor of Interlitteraria, an annual international journal of comparative literature published by Tartu University Press. He has been awarded for his work a number of prizes and distinctions: Juhan Smuul Annual Prize of Literature (in essay, 1986), Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize (1997), Ivar Ivask Memorial Prize of Essay and Poetry (2002), the Order of Isabel the Catholic (for his activity in Spanish studies, 1992), the White Star Order of Estonian Republic (2001), and The Medal of Tartu (2008). With the American H.L. Hix, Talvet has edited and translated a volume of Liiv’s poetry into English.
These works were translated by H. L. Hix.
Courtesy of the poet.
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Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas was born in 1953 in Kaapstad, South-Africa and lives in Amsterdam. She received her BA in Fine Art from University of Cape Town in 1975 . She has shown extensively including exhibitions at Zeno X in Antwerp, The Tate Gallery in London, Gallery Koyanagi in Tokyo, The Centre de Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the MoMa in New York. She is represented by David Zwirner in New York.
Excerpt from Gagarin, First Edition (www.gagarin.be).
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Navajo Folklore
From a Navajo Ceremony (Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature), ed. by John Bierhorst, 1974.
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Nurses
Nurses is a Portland-based trio of Aaron Chapman, John Bowers, and James Mitchell. They were signed to Dead Oceans Records in 2009 and released their first album Apple’s Acre that year. Their latest album Dracula is out now.
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Raleigh Moncrief
Raleigh Moncrief was born in California and was a longtime collaborator to Hella drummer Zach Hill. Raleigh Moncrief is Marnie Stern’s touring guitarist and producer/engineer to Dirty Projectors. He released three solo EPs call Combed Over Chrome (2009), Carpal Tunnels (2010), and Vitamins (2010). His debut LP, Watered Lawn, is out on Anticon Records in October 2011.
Courtesy of Anticon Records.
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Randall Mann
Randall Mann is the author of two collections of poetry, Breakfast with Thom Gunn and Complaint in the Garden. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and Poetry, and as part of the Jenny Holzer piece Xenon for Miami. He now lives in San Francisco.
Courtesy of the artist, "Song,” "Straight Razor," and "The Fall of 1992" first appeared in Poetry (April 2010).
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Ron Fricke
Ron Fricke is an American film director and cinematographer. His early work as director of photography, co-editor and co-writer for "Koyaanisqatsi", won a 1983 Filex Audience Award. Fricke proceeded to direct and co-produce "Chronos", an innovative, non verbal, IMAX film that won the Grand prix du jury Award at the first Festival International Omnimax de Paris (1987). Fricke directed, photographed, co-edited and co-wrote "Baraka" (1992). His latest work is “Samsara”, a visual quest that explores the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Son Lux
Ryan Lott was born in Denver in 1979. He studied composition and piano at Indiana University. He founded Art Serving Humanity (ASH), a charity Ensemble. He Son Lux’s debut performance was a headline alongside Sufjan Stevens and Emmylou Harris. He has opened for Sole at New York’s Knitting Factory. Ryan currently composes two pieces of music a day for Fluid NY, a thriving editorial house, has recently wrapped his third large-scale collaboration with the acclaimed Gina Gibney Dance company, and is working on the next Son Lux album.
Courtesy of Anticon Records.
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Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi is an internationally published aphorist, poet, and essayist, with work appearing in such publications as World Literature Today, Cimarron Review, AGNI, Rain Taxi, and Philosophy Now. He is the author of a new poetry collection, Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press), an essay collection, Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing, and a collection of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press), selected as a 2008 Book of the Year by The Independent (UK). He was recently chosen as a juror for the 2012 Neustadt Prize for International Literature.
Courtesy of the artist, “drylands” and “You again” appear in "Fever Dreams", published by Crisis Chronicles in 2011.
www.pw.org/content/yahia_lababidi
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