BOMB 122 / Winter 2013

INTERVIEWS MUSIC — DAVID LANGby Nico MuhlyLang’s recent multimedia work, love fail, intercuts the oddities of different medieval versions of the Tristan and Isolde story with Lydia Davis’s tales of modern love. Lang and fellow composer Nico Muhly go over the pros and cons of staging concerts and recording music. ART — Oscar Murillo by Legacy RussellIn Murillo’s work, action, words, painting, and parties all speak at the same volume—fluently familiar and yet entirely untranslatable. Artist and curator Legacy Russell finds out why.THEATER — Rude Mechanicals by Eric DyerThe ensemble theater collective based in Austin, Texas, has six artistic directors and its own venue, the Off Center. If the Rude Mechs’ ethos was a draw for Radiohole’s Eric Dyer, their bacchanalian re-creation of the Performance Group’s Dionysus in 69 clinched the connection. FILM — Cristian Mungiu by Liza BéarRomanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills won best screenplay and best actress at Cannes. The film—like