Welcome back to A Curriculum of Imposters (here and now, there and then, on and on). I’m your host, Richard Finlay Fletcher, and it is Friday, September 5th, 2025. This radio show is part of a kind of third space for two classes that I’m teaching at this Ohio State University, which is a university […]
[The original post contained unauthorized stills and transcripts from the film Exergue on documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Faliro House Productions, 2024. They have been removed on request.] Welcome to A Curriculum of Imposters (here and now, there and then, on and on). I’m your host Richard Finlay Fletcher, and it is Friday, August 29th, 2025. […]
Let me live with cows. You should look sometimes into the eyes of cows. They’re serene, quiet, round. They’re good, so good, like medicine. I like being with cows. I have spent much of my life with them. You’re driving me out of my mind, you dead thinking animals! Even now, I’m writing these angry […]
[The original post contained unauthorized stills and transcripts from the film Exergue on documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Faliro House Productions, 2024. They have been removed on request.] Edi Hila: Thank you very much for being here for this discussion today on my work, on my paintings. I would like to thank Pierre [Bal-Blanc] and Adam […]
I ‘To the Reader’ Black irises in my heart and on my lips . . . flame. From what forest did you come to me O crosses of anger? I have allied myself to sorrows. I have shaken hands with banishment and hunger. My hands are anger, my mouth is anger […]
Joar Nango Hi, I’m Joar Nango. For your library, I have donated a reindeer fur, a piece of reindeer fur. It’s the face of a reindeer, and it’s quite spectacular. It looks like a mask, as you say. But it’s, for me, very interesting because it has quite a pragmatic use, traditionally. It’s actually used […]
William Faulkner once allowed himself to be interviewed on the radio during a University of Virginia football game, and was introduced as a winner of the Mobil Prize. – David Markson, Vanishing Point (2004). I’m sitting in a reading room at the Thompson Library at this Ohio State University where I teach. Surreptitiously speaking these […]
[The original post contained unauthorized stills and transcripts from the film Exergue on documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Faliro House Productions, 2024. They have been removed on request.] We could say that Trumpism is a sort of revenge of all against all. The political project that Trump has promised to implement has the characteristics of revenge, […]
Richard Finlay Fletcher: Okay, so welcome to minus plato? I just thought you could briefly introduce yourself and then tell us a little bit about your relationship with documenta 14. Fil Ieropoulos: My name is Fil Ieropoulos. I live and work in Athens. I am an artist and filmmaker and researcher as well. My relationship […]
Dear David, How are you doing? I thought of you today as I was reading an essay by Tom Leonard. It’s called ‘Beckett and Graham’, and I can’t remember where I came across it, but I think it was something in James Kelman and I thought about you because of you poetry path in, both […]