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Terror and Lungs: a talk between David Breslin, Doctoral candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, and Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh, artist and member of the band Dragons of Zynth.
Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh: Alas!
David Breslin: Ahoy!
AO: Hope there is AC where you are. I’m downing an iced coffee right now.
DB: I’m not complaining. I’m on vacation with my girlfriend’s family.
AO: Well suited for this interview. So, shall we? Tell me a little about your most recent work.
DB: I just curated an exhibition of Juan Muñoz’s sculptures at the Clark Art Institute with Carmen Gimenez, the curator of modern art at the Guggenheim. It’s up until about the end of October. We also made a nice book to go along with. It’s not a standard exhibition catalogue, in that we used only photographs from the installation there and the ‘essay’ I wrote was more of a creative piece inflected by the writing of Levinas than a straight-up historical account.
is misleading, in a good way. It’s sprawling and never really about what it’s about. It’s provocative, if only in the sense that it prods your mind to step outside of the novel to consider Ritari’s characters. The novel follows two American journalists who are traveling in Taiwan when they wind up crossing paths with a Japanese class when three girls disappear. It’s a mystery novel that delves into the separation of east and west, the search for god, and the often insurmountable borders between cultures.