A voice comes from somewhere (or within), braying: Well, listen to him! So sanctimonious in his white wokeness and so-called decolonial critique (whatever that is)! We see what you’re doing, writing this out loud for strangers’ ears, but inwardly, under your typing tongue, you murmur, “Oh, let the old guard suffer, so I can profit!”. […]
I didn’t catch Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila’s The Ship in Kassel during documenta 14. According to the description in the exhibition’s guidebook and website, The Ship: takes the form of a public bus roaming the city streets of Kassel. Appearing as though half-submerged in seawater, the bus is an appropriation of the Stultifera Navis, or […]
On August 20, 21 and 22, 2017, I posted three posts on Minus Plato about the sound piece Medea by Soundwalk Collective. Here they are to refresh your memory: The first post is just the cover of the book Medea, the second a link to the sound piece (with a video by Vincent Moon), while […]
Last episode I left you with Cornel West. He was speaking about the blues as part of the exhibition Blues for Smoke, which was on show here in Columbus at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2013 at the same time as Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, with its concluding poetic call for the […]
For a project I created in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts during the run of their exhibition William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time (February 3-April 15, 2018), I made a questionnaire that asked Wexner staff and visitors (both in person and online) to think about the passing of time in their lives. There […]
The clip is only one minute and six seconds long, and was uploaded on September 11, 2012 by someone calling themselves guysintrouble. A young Alec Baldwin is being led in handcuffs through a hallway with two guards and his female lawyer, played by Stephanie Zimbalist, an actress I have never heard of or seen before. […]
Dear Diosa and Magistra, We have been thinking about our conversations today and wanted to write to you both directly (well, as directly as a blog post written by a one-person-collective to the sometime personas of an artist and a classicist can be!). As this phase of Minus Plato (“Minus Plato Return, Reform, Refresh”) comes […]
We are currently reading Amy Siskind’s brilliant snd terrifying book The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year which, along with her original website The Weekly List: This Is How Democracy Ends, is a vital reference work as we write No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump. Reading Siskind’s book […]
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 […]
