Category Archives: A Curriculum of Imposters
Outside the Cave, film still ©Abounaddara The audience La Vie des Idées: For whom do you make your films? How are they perceived by the various audiences you have encountered? Abounaddara: We make films because it is the most useful thing we can do for the revolution. However, we do not subscribe to activist cinema […]
[Starting at the end of 2015, documenta 14 posted the weekly ’emergency cinema’ videos of the Syrian collective Abounaddara on its website and Facebook page. As part of A Curriculum of Imposters (Here & Now, There & Then, On & On), I am reposting these videos, as well as screenshots of the original website posts […]
When you’ve watched the 14 hours of Exergue on documenta 14 (2024), I think you will be ready to watch Wang Bing’s 15 Hours (2017) as your next task. – Adam Szymczyk message to students in the Ohio State University classes Contemporary Theory and Art Education and The Social World of the Arts, Fall 2025, […]
In 1889, Congress openly seized land in Indian Territory for white settlement. The land runs thundered. Many of the settler towns created in the land runs are ghost towns now. Timber, railroads, and mining leaving a host of cavernous emptiness in their wake. What is a ghost town in a nation whose settlements, roads, and […]
“I have always been an imposter!” – Ross Birrell Footnote for the Future: A Democracy To Come? Ohio, 2026
April 18 April 19 April 21 May 16 May 26 June 2 June 7 June 11 July 19 August 5 August 8 August 10 September 2 Appendix: A Disturbed Memory of Ametria Richard Fletcher When I think of all the possible memories of Ametria, from the intense and deep recollections by the curators and architects […]
Welcome back to A Curriculum of Insistence* (Here & Now, There & Then, On & On) I’m your host, Richard Finlay Fletcher and it is Friday October 31st, 2025. So, I’m trying something different today. I guess, something old and something new. The old part is me typing out a blog post on minus plato? […]