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 […]
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created for the online class Art Education 2600: Visual Culture: Representation and Society that I’m currently teaching at This Ohio State University. It […]
Abounaddara has agreed to share this film with documenta 14; it is one of over 300 films produced on a weekly basis by an anonymous collective of Syrian filmmakers. By sharing these films on our website since November 27, 2015, Abounaddara aims to build alliances for the collective’s call for a change in the standards […]
