Indigenous Speech and Migrant Language between Apuleius and Cecilia Vicuña

29th May 2017Apuleius, Cecilia Vicuña, documenta 14, Madrid, Minus Plato On Location, Minus Plato TodayApuleius, Cecilia Vicuña, documenta 14Minus Plato

Greetings from Madrid! On the flight over I was reading the new issue of Afterall magazine which is dedicated to the idea of indigeneity (a term that combines the adjective indigenous and the noun identity). In her essay ‘Floating Between Past and Future: The Indigenisation of Environmental Politics’, Lucy Lippard discusses the artist Cecilia Vicuña […]

Be Present: Minus Plato On Location

28th May 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato On Location, Minus Plato Today, Nikhil Chopradocumenta 14, Nikhil ChopraMinus Plato

Today starts a new phase of this year of daily posts (Minus Plato Today), as between now and early August I will be posting while traveling throughout Europe (including stops in Madrid, Bilbao, Athens, London, Malaga and Kassel). Central to this journey is my experience of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel and the question […]