BOMB 109

InterviewsThe peripatetic conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg talks with artist Cheryl Donegan about Ginsberg's Howl, the animated past, and the overlooked poetry of authorless signage.Allora & Calzadilla speak to Carlos Motta about the politics of site and sound.Joel Shapiro, known for his tilting, anthropomorphic sculpures, goes into detail about Indian art as a lived experience with Michele Gerber Klein.Recipient of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35," Lydia Peelle talks with Gillian Welch about her journey from girlhood to published writerdom.Astra Taylor and Rebecca Solnit discuss Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.Cherien Dabis discusses her film Amreeka, drawn from her familiy's Arab-American experience, with June Stein.The iconic dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage is in conversation with her collaborator Lukas Ligeti, with whom she dissects African polyrhythms and the movement-language of sinuous curves. Thomas