Requited Flame (RF) for Àbadakone

Requited Flame (RF) is a sequence of daily Minus Plato posts comprising a photo of wall-text, a slide-show of installation shots, short videos, and a space for future comments about artists included in the exhibition Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel: Indigenous Contemporary International currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. As part of an unfinished curriculum of decolonial critique (ignited at documenta 14 in 2017), RF offers a space to reflect on art as media for Indigenous knowledge and the question of its mediation, especially as part of an unlearning process for settlers (like myself). The title comes from a fragment of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus who believed the soul was a living fire and that the flame was requited by all things and all things were requited by the flame. You too can add your own flame to the RF project by posting a comment. All comments will be added to the image of lined paper.]

Introducing Requited Flame (RF): A Minus Plato series on Àbadakone

Requited Flame (RF) for Rebecca Belmore

Requited Flame (RF) for Rajesh Chaitya Vangad and Gauri Gill

Requited Flame (RF) for Joar Nango

Requited Flame (RF) for Mata Aho Collective

Requited Flame (RF) for Melissa Cody

Requited Flame (RF) for Manuel Chavajay

Requited Flame (RF) for Eleng Luluan

Requited Flame (RF) for Taiye Idahor

Requited Flame (RF) for Marja Helander

Requited Flame (RF) for Joi T. Arcand

Requited Flame (RF) for Peter Morin

Requited Flame (RF) for Fredrik Prost

Requited Flame (RF) for Tracey Moffatt

Requited Flame (RF) for Maureen Gruben

Requited Flame (RF) for Fernando Poyón

Requited Flame (RF) for Jeneen Frei Njootli

Requited Flame (RF) for Tribal Women Artists Cooperative

Requited Flame (RF) for Dempsey Bob

Requited Flame (RF) for Skeena Reece

Requited Flame (RF) for Dayna Danger

Requited Flame (RF) for Zanele Muholi

Requited Flame (RF) for Ruth Cuthand

Requited Flame (RF) for Skawennati

Requited Flame (RF) for Edgar Calel

Requited Flame (RF) for Brian Adams

Requited Flame (RF) for Ningiukulu Teevee

Requited Flame (RF) for Inga-Wiktoria Påve and Anders Sunna

Requited Flame (RF) for Siwa Mgoboza

Requited Flame (RF) for Joseph Tisiga

Requited Flame (RF) for Balu Jivya Mashe

Requited Flame (RF) for Lisa Hageman Yahgujanaas

Requited Flame (RF) for Evgeniy Salinder

Requited Flame (RF) for Mique’l Dangeli and Nick Dangeli

Requited Flame (RF) for Sarah Sense

Requited Flame (RF) for Will Wilson

Requited Flame (RF) for Inger Blix Kvammen

Requited Flame (RF) for Eko Nugroho

Requited Flame (RF) for Thirza Cuthand

Requited Flame (RF) for Sayo Ogasawara

Requited Flame (RF) for Catherine Blackburn

Requited Flame (RF) on Shuvinai Ashoona

Requited Flame (RF) for Peter Robinson

Requited Flame (RF) for Barry Ace

Requited Flame (RF) for Dana Claxton

Requited Flame (RF) for Caroline Monnet

Requited Flame (RF) for Sky Hopinka

Requited Flame (RF) for Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou

Requited Flame (RF) for Hannah Claus

Requited Flame (RF) for Jordan Bennett

Requited Flame (RF) for Marianne Nicolson

Requited Flame (RF) for Ursula Johnson

Requited Flame (RF) for Maria Hupfield

Requited Flame (RF) for Àbadakone