This twelfth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like looks at participation, performance and pomp in democratic visual culture, Sanja Iveković’s Monument to Revolution (2017) and how to stop being ourselves. Participation, Performance & Pomp in Democratic Visual Culture Sanja Iveković Monument to Revolution (2017) Soft Power of Exergue on documenta 14 Musical Outro: […]
Back in December 2019, in the immediate aftermath of Jeffery Epstein’s death following his arrest on new sex trafficking charges brought by prosecutors in New York, I gave a public reading of my book No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life under Trump (AC Books) in the WexStore at the Wexner Center […]
Fifty years ago today, Sámi artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen (Áillu Máhte Hánsa), visited Ohio with Tsuut’ina knowledge keeper Lee Crowchild and took photos and made a drawing of the ancient Miamisburg Mound. Thanks to fellow Sámi artist and architect, Joar Nango, I have been lucky enough to meet Hans Ragnar, first in Tromsø, and more […]
This eleventh episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like was created the day after the US Midterm elections as part of Scottish artist Ross Birrell’s visit to Ohio to accompany his banner ‘democracy to come’ and its installation in the Sullivant Hall rotunda at Ohio State University for the month of November. The episode […]
In this tenth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, with the US Midterm elections less than a week away and in the immediate aftermath of elections in Serbia, Brazil and Israel, each telling their own stories about representative democracy and its limits, this episode follows the money and looks for value in democratic […]
In this ninth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we circle back to earlier themes in the visual culture of democracy (architecture, ‘The People’ vs people, memory, otherness, and violence), the juxtaposition of ruins and life in Andreas Angelidakis’ Demos (2016-ongoing), and things that have spirits. Ruins and Life in Democratic Visual Culture […]
