“The mimesis brought about by the Golden Potlatch was decidedly imperfect. From the outset its intent, I think, was not to create a perfect copy, but instead to borrow from the idea of the potlatch for different objectives. The festival was the public performance of a larger narrative about economic prosperity (always already from a prospector’s/settler’s perspective). […]
Greetings all my relatives. We are all one. It’s an ancient insight from the indigenous cultures that seems to have been lost along the way. And so when I speak to people I want to acknowledge you as relatives. I’m really moved by the presentations this evening and the other ones I’ve heard. I’ve not […]
Welcome back to A Curriculum of Imposters (Here & Now; There & Then; On & On). It is Friday September 12th, 2025 and I am your host Richard Finlay Fletcher. Rather than trascribe the radio show I created today as a post here, I ask those of you who are reading this to take the […]
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 […]