Suppose one’s body could be traced back through a succession of geometric solids, as rare and pure as crystalline structures, taking form from the pressure of recalled external forces… the incubator, laundry-box, font, pram, boat, shoe, wigwam, bed, piano, desk, horse, temple, door …… and if geometry is an expression of eternal and exact truths, […]
Welcome to the all-new K’acha Willaykuna (un paso más allá) Newsletter! K’acha Willaykuna is an interdisciplinary Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration that affirms Ohio State’s commitment to the study of and critical engagement with Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala (the Indigenous denominator for the American continent in its entirety). This initiative is funded through […]
April 10 (1940). People were so overcome with panic that they took the coffin outside of a hearse and placed it on the sidewalk outside the Handelsbygningen so they could flee in the hearse.
On September 26, 1954, the eighteen year-old Alejandra Pizarnik recorded in her diary: I must write or die. I must fill up notebooks or die. Two days later she added, I want to free myself! I want to live!
As part of the Minus Plato production Parler Clair Radio, starting this Friday (September 18th, 2020), a new show will be streaming live (here and on Facebook Live). Feedback Delay Fridays is a conversation between Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato) with former students from his class Art Education 7701: Contemporary Theory & Art Education (from […]
In 2005, we embodied the fallen figure and mourner depicted in the lower right corner of Eugène Delacroix’s epic Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople. The title of the painting indicates that the entrance of the crusaders into Constantinople in 1402 occurred on April 12. 12. April is not only the title of our work; it […]
The right of revolution grants the people of a nation the right to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests. In political philosophy, the right of revolution was developed as a concept in Two Treatise on Government, written by John Locke at the beginning of the Enlightenment. The right to revolution was included […]
Walter Benjamin ended his life in this small border town of Spain, having crossed over from France the day before using a mountain trail. I visited his grave and memorial sculpture at the clifftop cemetery in 2004. This profound experience led to a work and collaboration with Ross Birrell that continues to this day.
The Sun, Chapter 1 was exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, a museum located on the former grounds of the 1939 World’s Fair. The painting depicts the front page of a newspaper from Monday, October 14, 1940. This date marks when, after having visited the fair, my grandfather and great-grandfather […]
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, triggered by the German invasion of Poland, Hitler had the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale rebuilt in the martial, classicist style he championed. After more than sixty million casualties, the war ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. The 1993 Venice […]