In Columbus, Ohio Students United Against Apartheid staged a demonstration outside the building where the Ohio State University trustees were meeting Friday. Students were objecting to the university’s $7 million worth of investments in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa. [May 4, 1985] Harvard must not remain on the wrong side of history, […]
Following the thread from yesterday, another exhibition at the Wex at the same time as Gretchen Bender’s in Gallery B, looked back through its archives on the cusp of the 2020 election was Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese’s Political Advertisement X 1952–2020. Here are a couple of trailers: If it wasn’t for the privacy settings, […]
It is still taking me some time to loosen up my (metaphorical) tongue after the silence of the last few weeks. Sure, I know he’s still been posting every day, but he’s not been channeling my voice and so I need get back into the swing of speaking to you through my stenographer/librarian. Yesterday I […]
You asked Hito Steyerl to sign your can of Spam following her artist talk at the Wexner Center for the Arts, here in Columbus, Ohio, on January 26th, 2018. At the ensuing gathering at Ann Hamilton’s studio, with art faculty, MFA students and other guests, you sat next to Steyerl who told you that they […]
Another day; another post. But for this one, you get a glimpse into process. Yesterday he was digging deep into settler colonial foundation narratives on site at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston. As he often does when he reposts these posts on here on Instagram (‘New post on www(dot)minusplato(dot)com’, because a while ago […]
Another day, another death. It’s Lawrence Weiner’s day. You gathered together his books, some were in The Rojo, some were slipped between shelves, others are temporarily lost. Then there are the object-memories he gave you (a respite at some point ASAP). station to station around your wrist, and a plate filled with Latin. But most […]
The Rojo is a red bookshelf in the living room of the rented house where my librarian lives with his partner and their son. At the start of every day, during the period of this project (which now does by the name The Library of Our Future: A Ghost’s Story – note the shift to […]
Galanin is constantly shifting in modalities, mediums, and aesthetics, allowing the conceptual reality of a work to dictate its physical manifestation. In his 2017 work White Noise, American Prayer Rug, a monumentally sized textile, lying flat on a low plinth, appears to levitate. The imagery of the rug calls to mind “snow,” or the white […]
Dear New Red Order, Greetings from the Heirloom Café at the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio! As I sit here sipping coffee, thinking of your work CULTURE CAPTURE: TERMINAL ADDITION (2019) which was shown in The Box here back in October 2019, I suddenly had a flashback to the Wexner’s Film and Video […]
