My scholarship therefore requires of me an orientation toward generosity rather than accumulation: toward the careful circulation of knowledge in ways that sustain the relationships from which that knowledge emerges…knowledge carries responsibilities. “This grant demonstrates the Department of Education’s confidence in Ohio State’s mission to equip leaders and engaged citizens,” said Ravi Bellamkonda, executive vice […]
O my reader do not ask me to whisper do not expect musical delight This is my suffering, a wild shot in the sand and another to the clouds. A dull evening in a rundown villageEyes half asleepI recall thirty yearsAnd five warsI swear the future keepsMy ear of cornAnd the […]
Why did the documenta 14 team blur the still from Abounaddara’s film Aleppo on their Facebook page? Responding to artnet News’ request for comment, documenta 14 deferred to a statement by artistic director Adam Szymczyk in which he states: “In its magnitude and systemic nature of state-orchestrated destruction of an entire race, the Holocaust remains […]
In this fifth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we consider representations of censorship, freedom of the press and book bans in the visual culture of democracy, Marta Minujín The Parthenon of Books (1983/2017) and two competing forms of freedom. Censorship, Freedom of the Press, and Book Bans in Democratic Visual Culture Marta […]
In this fourth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of religious coexistence in the visual culture of democracy, K.G. Subramanyan’s 2013 mural War of the Relics and the sharing of Indigenous spirituality and warmth. Religious Coexistence in Democratic Visual Culture K.G. Subramanyan’s War of the Relics Measuring 2.7 by 10.9 […]
On this day, September 14, 10 years ago in Parko Eleftherias (‘Freedom Park’), Athens, Greece, months before the exhibition’s opening in April 2017, the documenta 14 public program Parliament of Bodies initiated 34 Exercises of Freedom – a series of talks, conversations, artist lectures and performances. See below for the full description of the program, […]
In this third episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of freedom of expression in the visual culture of democracy, Edi Hila’s 1972 painting Planting of Trees and building communities of freedom. Freedom of Expression in democratic visual culture Edi Hila Planting of Trees (1972) “He had been banished […]
