Dear Yervant, I hope this finds you well. I realized that I was somewhat vague in yesterday’s post when I wrote about what would constitute a more “nuanced understanding of audience” for your contributions to documenta 14, specifically the screening of Pays Barbare as part of the Public TV program KEIMENA. Allow me to spend […]
Dear Yervant Gianikian, I hope this finds you well and you don’t mind me writing out of the blue. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at Ohio State University and I write this blog, Minus Plato as part of my research into the 2017 exhibition documenta 14, […]
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]
It is official, the next Documenta, to be held in 2022, has a new Artistic Director (or directors): the Indonesian artistic collective ruangrupa. (See here for the reports from ART News, Artforum and The Art Newspaper). This exciting announcement has a transformative effect on my ongoing project to examine the legacies of documenta 14 and […]
A belated happy new year to all our Minus Plato readers! I have been busy putting together The Minus Plato Library as well as creating a series of teaching projects related to art and education after documenta 14 and I am now ready to share them with you all. Stretching across two courses (Art Education […]
This is the first of a series of five posts, one for each day of this week, that act as a remote participation in the workshop Theorizing Africana Receptions organized by Eos, a scholarly society dedicated to Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome. The workshop will take place at the Annual Meeting of the […]
Do you work the standard grind of Monday through Friday without finding any time to restore your body and mind with creatively or intellectually challenging activities? Sure, you may squeeze in a few pages of a book or a quick visit to a museum, but do you constantly struggle to undo the damage your hips, […]
Ch. 1: Prologue 1.1: Who are ‘we’? 1.2: Guides and Handbooks November 1 1.3: Nature of Project October 17 Ch. 2: Mourning Diary 2.1: First Days 2.2: The Everyday 2.3: Anniversaries/Celebrations/Obituaries October 12 2.4: Events Ch. 3: On Classicism’s Ruins 3.1: Classicism, Classicists and The Classical 3.2: Support Networks: Columns and References October 15 3.3: […]
We are currently in Nashville, on the road to Dollywood, and so we don’t have time to write a post today. (If you want to come along with us, from where you are, there is no better guide than our friend and fellow Classicist Helen Morales’ 2014 book Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road […]
