I don't write music. We never did. Sonic Youth never did. Our writing is sitting around and playing, and reforming it. —
Kim Gordon
In America we have this history where we forgive the oppressor and vilify the outsider. — Taylor Mac
I mean, I see the life politic, the life that we live all together as people, is the sum of what people throw into their world. —
Wolfgang Tillmans
The last twelve months have seen Wolfgang Tillmans' return to music after a nearly thirty-year absence, Taylor Mac's one-time-only 24-hour concert performance, and the first release of Kim Gordon's music under her own name.
PARIS LA 15—an issue devoted to music—brings together conversations with these artists, as well as interviews with Carrie Brownstein (with Kim Gordon), Josh Da Costa and Matt Fishbeck about
Solid Rain, Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw, art and music entrepreneur Aaron Bandaroff on Know Wave, and Chloé Maratta and Flannery Silva of Odwalla88 (joined by Dean Spunt of No Age).
Issue 15 also features a conversation between LA-based curators Sohrab Mohebbi and Aram Moshayedi, and writer Gaye Theresa Johnson about her first book
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles, essays on Lady Tigra and on Black Sabbath's final tour, Yelli Yelli in her own words, an excerpt from the
Standard Book of Color by
Andrew Berardini, a piece by associate editor Evan Moffitt on Berlin and Bowie, and a report from Standing Rock by
Oscar Tuazon.
PARIS LA is an independent journal focused on experiments in arts, founded in 2008 by the editor Dorothée Perret (
DoPe Press). Published once a year,
PARIS LA operates as an independent creative space and invites each season, artists, designers, photographers and writers to collaborate and to share their vision in relation to a theme.
