Edmund Berrigan is the author of More Gone (City Lights, 2019). He is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Nick Sturm of Get the Money (Collected Prose 1961-1983) by Ted Berrigan (City Lights, 2022).
Maryam Taghavi’s installations, paintings, and institutional interventions appear meditative, tranquil on jewel-toned surfaces, yet they are charged with a consciousness that embraces the impossibility of fully understanding the mysteries between spiritual and ordinary worlds.
Songs of My Softening, a new collection by poet Omotara James, is a clear pronunciation of the pristine spaces in which you are seen. Equal parts hurt and joy, in her poems’ many iterations, the throughline is that they are unwavering in their truths, a feat when Omatara’s life experience is so specific—her talent, her race, her gender, her sexuality, her size—she is speaking of you. You are complicit in every direction—every entry an ear and a prayer.
I sat with Christian Kerez in a Milanese apartment, in which he houses his home and architecture office. In the sequence of spaces one tiny room has six doors and a single door divides 3 zones of the flat. The art in his practice is to simply describe the medium. In doing so Christian Kerez offers a zero-degree architecture, where space is revealed and not designed.