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!
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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.
The Sun, Chapter 1 was exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, a museum located on the former grounds of the 1939 World’s Fair. The painting depicts the front page of a newspaper from Monday, October 14, 1940. This date marks when, after having visited the fair, my grandfather and great-grandfather […]
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, triggered by the German invasion of Poland, Hitler had the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale rebuilt in the martial, classicist style he championed. After more than sixty million casualties, the war ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. The 1993 Venice […]
The Arab al-Sbaih refers to the Palestinian Nakba, which is annually commemorated on May 15 – the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The image (sic) shows a shelter built in Irbid, Jordan, by the exiled sheikh of Arab al-Sbaih for the people of the neighborhood during the Israeli-Arab war of 1967.
The GDR was founded on October 7, 1949. It seems as if historians are unable to agree upon what to call the territory of the German Reich between the end of the war in 1945 and the fall of 1949. As I was born in May 1949, I cannot answer the potential question about my […]
Minus Plato: I am currently in Madrid & I was excited to learn of your radio project Singing is what makes work possible (Syllabus) at the Museo Reina Sofía (I am especially intrigued by the ‘syllabus’ you created!). May I ask, Hong-Kai, is there any connection between your documenta 14 commission for their pubic radio […]