Book 6: Sorting Seeds and other Soul Tasks

30th March 2017Apuleius, Minus Plato Today, Psyche, The Golden Ass Instantly Illustrated, William Pope. LApuleius, Psyche, The Golden Ass Instantly Illustrated, William Pope. LMinus Plato

I wanted to talk about everyone, everything at once as being mutual commodities on the shelf of the marketplace. Blackness, whiteness, femaleness, communicate and contradict each other. On certain levels we’re just folks, on the other levels we’re Americans, Nazis, niggers, Republicans, protein chains, you name it—the audience has the task of hearing, (active listening), […]

Black Lives’ Matter: Sanford Biggers’ Laocoon and William Pope L.’s Latin

25th September 2016Ann Hamilton, Black Lives Matter, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Laocoon, Latin, Mary Kelly, Sanford Biggers, William Pope. LMinus Plato

I have just returned from Lawrence, Kansas, where I delivered the keynote address at the Oliver Phillips Latin Colloquium at the University of Kansas. (I am grateful to all the faculty, teachers and students who attended and for making it a memorable visit). My talk was called ‘The Latin Lessons of Contemporary Artists’ and I […]