One should never erect from a plane or from a drawing; on the contrary, the authentic path is to create infinite possible projections in space – daughters, not mothers. The wind is a space covered with times and aromas. The ocean wanted to be a cloud, because I was sad I was witness White heart […]
Walking around Washington Square Park, I sometimes think I see Ana [Mendieta] running, circling the park as she used to. We would wave to one another and continue on our individual routines. – April 1992
Suppose one’s body could be traced back through a succession of geometric solids, as rare and pure as crystalline structures, taking form from the pressure of recalled external forces… the incubator, laundry-box, font, pram, boat, shoe, wigwam, bed, piano, desk, horse, temple, door …… and if geometry is an expression of eternal and exact truths, […]
Welcome to the all-new K’acha Willaykuna (un paso más allá) Newsletter! K’acha Willaykuna is an interdisciplinary Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration that affirms Ohio State’s commitment to the study of and critical engagement with Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala (the Indigenous denominator for the American continent in its entirety). This initiative is funded through […]
April 10 (1940). People were so overcome with panic that they took the coffin outside of a hearse and placed it on the sidewalk outside the Handelsbygningen so they could flee in the hearse.
On September 26, 1954, the eighteen year-old Alejandra Pizarnik recorded in her diary: I must write or die. I must fill up notebooks or die. Two days later she added, I want to free myself! I want to live!
As part of the Minus Plato production Parler Clair Radio, starting this Friday (September 18th, 2020), a new show will be streaming live (here and on Facebook Live). Feedback Delay Fridays is a conversation between Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato) with former students from his class Art Education 7701: Contemporary Theory & Art Education (from […]
In 2005, we embodied the fallen figure and mourner depicted in the lower right corner of Eugène Delacroix’s epic Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople. The title of the painting indicates that the entrance of the crusaders into Constantinople in 1402 occurred on April 12. 12. April is not only the title of our work; it […]
The right of revolution grants the people of a nation the right to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests. In political philosophy, the right of revolution was developed as a concept in Two Treatise on Government, written by John Locke at the beginning of the Enlightenment. The right to revolution was included […]
Walter Benjamin ended his life in this small border town of Spain, having crossed over from France the day before using a mountain trail. I visited his grave and memorial sculpture at the clifftop cemetery in 2004. This profound experience led to a work and collaboration with Ross Birrell that continues to this day.