BOMB Magazine Begin FUSE a Podcast Series

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Since 1981, BOMB has delivered the most iconic voices of our time, publishing conversations between artists, writers, musicians, performers, and directors. FUSE extends BOMB’s longstanding commitment to bringing together artists across disciplines to discuss their work and creative practice.

Departing from the typical podcast format, there’s no host, no moderator, just two artists in dialogue, unfiltered. Listeners experience the conversation as if they were in the room with the artists. In a limited series of six 35-minute episodes, prominent artists, writers, musicians, performers, and directors select an interlocutor from any creative field to discuss their work and process. 

The first season of FUSE will feature conversations between visual artists Simone Leigh and Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, screenwriter-author Nick Hornby and composer Maria Schneider, author-illustrator Mira Jacob and author Scott Cheshire, visual artist Ja’Tovia M. Gary and author Kaitlyn Greenidge, authors Deborah Eisenberg and Francine Prose (revisiting their original print interview from 1993), and performer-choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and performer Becca Blackwell.

FUSE covers topics that range from the intimate to the universal, including the intricacies of the personal artistic process, the importance of failure, finding one’s voice, expanding access, redistributing power, and challenging norms in art and identity. FUSE allows two artists to fully engage in intimate conversation and explore ideas together on their own terms.

FUSE was recorded at Brooklyn Podcasting Studio and Pioneer Works, an artist-run, nonprofit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which builds community through arts and science.

FUSE: A BOMB Podcast is made possible in part by the generous support of the Pannonia Foundation, and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most major podcast applications today.

You can subscribe, review, and rate FUSE on iTunes. 

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