On August 20, 21 and 22, 2017, I posted three posts on Minus Plato about the sound piece Medea by Soundwalk Collective. Here they are to refresh your memory: The first post is just the cover of the book Medea, the second a link to the sound piece (with a video by Vincent Moon), while […]
“The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.” From Nelson Mandela’s inaugural speech, Pretoria, May 10, 1994.
On November 4, 1995, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a man opposed to the peace treaty with Palestine. The aftermath was defined by incitement by the opposition: withdrawal from “Jewish” land amounted to heresy. This moment brought about a fracture. “Jamal, who is working on his doctorate in mathematics, is struck by […]
in 1995, I was invited to exhibit at the obala Art Center, Sarajevo. its director, who came to visit me in my Base studio to select the material for the exhibition, had to pass through the Sarajevo tunnel under the airport and over Mount Igman. in November, I traveled to the besieged city of Sarajevo […]
“A Fiesta for Life against Death, 11th September 2001,” photographed by me (sic) sometime in 2003 in Hackney, East London.
I was doing the Planetary Dance at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on election night, and hundreds of us were dancing our hearts out, hoping Obama would be elected. In the midst of our dance a news bulletin appeared on the screen – Obama was elected. Our first black president […]
Exact dates are not very significant. It is about a different duration – periods of time and space where surveillance is absent. I observe areas for long periods to determine in which manner to respond and how quickly – minutes or seconds. I made this image (sic) during the Chinese New Year holiday, under the […]
One of my main influences, filmmaker, artist, and taroist Alejandro Jodorowsky, says about death, “If you run too fast, you’ll find her. If you go too slow, she’ll find you. But it you walk next to her, she’ll offer good company.” I obtained the necklace I am wearing in the photo [sic] at Akumal, a […]
Mining development started on this site [Khan Copper mines, Namibia] 1908; photographed (sic) the remains April 17, 2015, at 16:33.
The exhibition “Voyage around my Room” curated by Kika Kyriakakou (with production coordinator Vicky Tsirou), took place between March 18th and May 2nd this year at the Athens Municipality Arts Center in Parko Eleftherias. Conflating Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1926) and Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre (1794), the […]