Another Friday, after another tough week, this time culminating with the threatened violence of domestic terrorism, carried out, if not by, at least in the name of the Trump administration. While you may not feel up to watching a lecture about torture by historian Kostis Kornetis amid such traumatic conditions, you can at least turn […]
Happy Friday all – what a long, tiring week! I don’t have the energy to do justice to the lecture by Judith Revel that kicked off the second evening of 34 Exercises of Freedom (September 15, 2016) and the topic of DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS… INTO NEOLIBERALISM. Revel, a French philosopher and expert on the thought of […]
For today’s session of Freedom Park Fridays, we will be doing a collective workout following the directions of Peruvian artist Sergio Zevallos and his performance Educación cívica/Civic Education. You will need to find yourself a partner and a large room. Now, take a deep breath and get ready for the workout. 1. Stand at the […]
I’m not going to even ask you how your week was as I know its been rough, traumatic even. But here we are again, at its end and here again is your date with a time-machine to take you away from it all and back to Athens in September 2016 and the 34 Exercises of […]
Hello again – another working week is done and here we are for your dose of restorative freedom from documenta 14. Today you can sit back and listen to philosopher Antonio Negri speak to you in French about ideas of struggle, freedom and enlightenment (from the supermarket to Trump). Don’t worry if you can’t understand […]
What a week! Now is the time to unwind and to escape to Athens and listen to Malidi’s story of her life-changing journey and the light she shines on our own struggles. Malidi means “to always find a purpose and path in life” in Kawakwaka’wakw, the language spoken by the native people of the Pacific […]
Do you work the standard grind of Monday through Friday without finding any time to restore your body and mind with creatively or intellectually challenging activities? Sure, you may squeeze in a few pages of a book or a quick visit to a museum, but do you constantly struggle to undo the damage your hips, […]
1834 Ohio Penitentiary founded. 1870 The Ohio State University founded. 1878 Columbus Museum of Art founded (as Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts). 1929 Writer Chester Himes enters Ohio Pen. 1930 Ohio Pen fire kills over 300 inmates. 1934 Chester Himes’ short story about the Ohio Pen fire (“To What Red Hell?”) from the perspective of […]
Last episode I left you with Cornel West. He was speaking about the blues as part of the exhibition Blues for Smoke, which was on show here in Columbus at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2013 at the same time as Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, with its concluding poetic call for the […]
For a project I created in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts during the run of their exhibition William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time (February 3-April 15, 2018), I made a questionnaire that asked Wexner staff and visitors (both in person and online) to think about the passing of time in their lives. There […]