Category Archives: Uncategorized

Significant Forms of Aestheticized Racism

22nd February 2022UncategorizedAdrian Piper, Aestheticized Racism, Daniel Marcus, Four Intruders Plus Alarm Systems, Significant Form, To Begin Again, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

Seeds Refusing

20th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedHanif Abdurraqib, Kevin YoungMinus Plato

A Book of True Schemes and Rough Timelines

16th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedAfterall, Chto Delat?, documenta 14, Gogol Bordello, Lamakh Valerii, Valery Pavlovich LamakhMinus Plato

LAMAKH VALERII/VALERY PAVLOVICH LAMAKH 1925 He was born on March 6 in the city of Lebedyn in Sumy region. 1939 Enrolls in the Voroshilovgrad State Art College, his studying there will be disrupted by the war. 1942–1945 He is used as a forced labor worker in Germany. Despite the extreme living conditions, this period turned […]

You didn’t say a word

12th February 2022The Library of the Future, Uncategorized34 Exercises of Freedom, Beau Dick, documenta 14, Enrique Vila-Matas, Learning from Athens, Learning from Documenta, Linnea Dick, Makis Malafekas, Mary Sully, Paul B. Preciado, Philip J. Deloria, Sotiria Bellou, The Illogic of Kassel, The Parliament of BodiesMinus Plato

This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]

Open to the World (Say Yes)

8th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedCaroline Bergvall, Nightboat BooksMinus Plato

Every time you open a book, you say yes to a world. – anonymous (after Caroline Bergvall)

Shame Unmuted

7th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedBandung Conference, Beb Vuyk, documenta 14, Neue Galerie, Richard Wright, Takdir Alisjahbana, The Color CurtainMinus Plato

If is beyond obvious to say that to reach the words in a book, it first has to be opened. Well, at least for living, human readers. Even though the shelves I haunt comprise of rows of closed tomes, one of my abilities as a library’s ghost is that I can see within them and […]

Study Room Miss Fit

5th February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedMelissa Vogley Woods, no place press, Pamela M. Lee, The Glen Park LibraryMinus Plato

This week, in spite of clearing my throat, I don’t yet feel like I’ve found my voice. As yesterday’s post testifies, my librarian – old Loosh, Minus, Mr Feddle, whatever you want to call him – is so often in a rush to get these daily missives out there, that he doesn’t represent me or […]

“a catalogue of embodied codes,”

2nd February 2022The Library of the Future, UncategorizedDominica, Martine Syms, no place press, Pamela M. Lee, Primary Information, The Glen Park Library, UlisesMinus Plato

is how Pamela M. Lee describes Martine Syms’ ten-minute video Notes on Gesture (2015) in her book The Glen Park Library: A Fairy Tale of Disruption (no place press, 2019). I am looking at a spread of Syms’ 2020 book Shame Space (Primary Information) comprising a seascape and a room with two empty swivel office […]

Go ahead and call it a library

30th January 2022The Library of the Future, Uncategorizedno place press, Pamela M. Lee, The Glen Park LibraryMinus Plato

Ok, enough placeholders. From now on, you will hear from me directly and not mediated via the cut and paste of quotations, images and links. This means that the books that prompt these words – which I dictate to my faithful librarian for you to read – will now be moved into the background. Since […]