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 program here almost 30 years ago, in October and November 1992.
It was curated by Claire Aguilar for the exhibition Will/Power that featured newly commissioned work by works by Papo Colo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper, and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson amid the frenzy of the Columbus 500 year celebrations. I didn’t see it myself (I was a teenager back in the UK in 1992, just moving from Leicester to London after my parents split), but thanks to the exhibition catalog (available to purchase in the WexStore), I was able to see which films were part of Aguilar’s program.
On typing all the names of the films and filmmakers, as well as links to watch them or find out more info (where there was any to find) into the computer, I wanted to ask you if you had any thoughts about what we could do here to ‘celebrate’ the 530th?
Hope you are well & to see you here soon!
Love Minus Plato
PS – FYI a Columbus statue still stands here in the Ohio Statehouse, I passed it last Wednesday
Program 1
Thursday, October 8, 1992
Paul Espinosa
1492 Revisited, 1992
Jesse Lerner, Scott Serling
Natives, 1991
Sylvia Stevens
Columbus O!, 1992
Luis Valdovino, Dan Boord
Una historia/A History, 1992
Program 2
Friday, October 9, 1992
Victor Masayevsa, Jr.
Pot Starr, 1990
Victor Masayevsa, Jr.
SISKYAVI – The Place of Chasms, 1991
Mona Smith, Nan Toskey
This Which Is Between, 1989
Mona Smith
Honored by the Moon, 1990
Sandy Osawa
The 8th Fire, 1992
Zachariah Kunuk
Nunaqpa, 1991
Program 3
Visiting Artist: Lourdes Portillo
Friday, October 30, 1992
Lourdes Portillo
The Mirrors of the Heart, 1991
Lourdes Portillo
Columbus on Trial, 1992
Lourdes Portillo, Susana
La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, 1989
Program 4
Thursday, November 4, 1992
Baruc Rafik, 1992
Disposition, 1992
Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy
Takeover, 1991
Rea Tajiri
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, 1991
Luis Valdovino and Dan Boord
Truco, 1990
Luis Valdovino
Work in Progress, 1990
Tracey Moffatt
Nice Colored Girls, 1987
Program 5
Friday, November 13, 1992
George Burdeau
The Pueblo Peoples: First Contact, 1991
Robbie Leppzer
Columbus Didn’t Discover Us, 1992
Robby Henson
Trouble Behindi, 1990
Program 6
Beyond the Color Line: Reflections on Race*
Friday, November 20, 1992
Dave Swofford
Fire, 1992
Tran T. Kim-Trang
Aletheia, 1992
Aaron Anish, Ruben D. Ortiz
How to Read Macho Mouse, 1991
Paul Mayeda Berges
En Ryo Identity, 1991
Jason Hoff
Patriotism, 1992
Ahrin Mishan, Nicj Rothenberg
Giang Ho: Crazy Life, 1991
Portia Cobb
No Justice, No Peace/Black, Male, ImMEDIAte, 1992
Michael Cho
Animal Appetites, 1991
William Tyler Smith
A Voice from the Streets, 1991
- This program was originally screened in a slightly different version, in Los Angeles in the spring of 1992.
