Do you remember gathering at the Tiki-Room to talk about time and lawlessness?
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He has a secret that he’s not sure he wants me to share with you all, but I just can’t keep it in anymore, so I have to whisper it here, into this hole of a blogpost. He collects wall-texts. Well, that’s not exactly right, he steals them, and by ‘them’, the moniker ‘wall-text’ seems […]
How many times are you going to keep coming back to Plato’s Cave?
Nanabush’s trip stories the landscape with relational knowledges. When Nishnaabeg see a birch tree, we recognize a library of stories involving birch. When we see a lady’s slipper, or moss on rocks, or cranberries, or maple trees, or a woodpecker, or beaver, more libraries. Nanabush’s character is a reflection of Nishnaabewin and of Nishnaabeg themselves, […]
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 […]
When he visited An American City, the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in September 2018, my librarian attended an evening reception for the launch of the second volume of the exhibition catalog at an event at the Cleveland Public Library amid Yinka Shonibare’s The American Library, a both dazzling and sobering installation […]
The chains are formed linking stubborn bubbles of isolated worlds will it stain or purge these aging cells – Otobong Nkanga ‘Future’
It is Saturday after a long week of long posts, so this is going to be short (and tomorrow even shorter). Just as yesterday was written for your ears, as he asked you to listen (not to me or him, but to a conversation as a way of knowing, making and remembering), today is a […]
“What are you making?” I am making conversation – Ursula Johnson to Ginger Dunnill on Broken Boxes podcast, 15 March, 2016 When writing Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story, the sequence of daily posts that act as a steady build up towards Minus Plato’s endgame and the exhibition Whisper into a Hole (watch […]
The Rag and Bone Bookshop of the Heart – after William Butler Yeats’ ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’ and the poetry anthology – a gift from your mother – edited by James Hillman, Michael Meade and Robert Bly. On September 25th, 2017, back when I was still alive (albeit barely) and you were still a classicist […]