– from Laura Da’ ‘Raven Gets Meta’, in tributaries. University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Category Archives: A Curriculum of Imposters
Episode 1: The House Three Athenians (let us call them Bia, Alexis and Nina) live together in a tiny house on the outskirts of Kassel. They are here to work at Documenta, the exhibition that this small German city hosts every five years. This year the curators have divided the exhibition between Athens and Kassel […]
But empire, its idiot families and colonialist invasions, land grabs and resource exploitations, goes further back. As does its exploitation of language, both visual and linguistic. Auder’s new video installation The Course of Empire (2017) is inspired by the eponymous series of paintings created by Thomas Cole from 1833 to 1836. A “text film,” constructed from iPhone […]
“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 […]