To Care for our Selves and Others: Minus Plato minus Social Media

10th December 2019UncategorizedMinus Plato

Today I am putting an indefinite hold on posting to all Minus Plato social media accounts. Back in January 2018, I created Minus Plato Instagram and Twitter accounts, as well as a Minus Plato Facebook page, as a way of disseminating my work on the blog Minus Plato, specifically as it (and I) transitioned from […]

…a collective choreography of banal movements…[1] …even protesting a museum exhibition is still a form of participation…[2] …not even if I had ten tongues and ten mouths…[3] …a Roman would always think we…[4] …Judith beheading Holoferenes: make art history scream…[5] …at the Old Library Wex’s book starts to come alive…[6] [1] Hey you, yes you, […]

My Fate is my Anger: Three Impatient Questions for Lewis Hyde from Forgotten Lands

21st November 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Lewis Hyde, Mahmoud Darwish, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wayne AlfredMinus Plato

To the Reader Dear Reader, as I write you this, author Lewis Hyde is giving a lecture at the Wexner Center for the Arts about his recent book A Primer of Forgetting. While I cannot be there in person (so close, yet so far), I want to use this post to send him a group […]

They Represent Who We Are: Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids and the Rodin Facade

15th October 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Columbus Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wangechi MutuMinus Plato

To continue my project Caryatids and the Patriarchy, I want to celebrate the unveiling of four new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu commissioned for the facade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The NewOnes, will free Us (2019). As the museum website announces, Mutu’s work: inaugurates an annual commission to animate The Met’s […]

Caryatids and the Patriarchy Triptych

20th September 2019UncategorizedAnn Hamilton, Auguste Rodin, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Columbus Museum of Art, documenta halle, Jenny Holzer, Lala Rukh, Maya Lin, Pablo Picasso, Wexner Center for the ArtsMinus Plato

1. He is still Here (Wexner Center for the Arts) 2. Lala Rukh’s ‘The Unholy Trinity’ (documenta Halle) 3. The House of the Falling Man (Columbus Museum of Art)

Signs Fiction Forty – Online Insert No.2, Two Dollar Radio HQ

7th September 2019UncategorizedNo Philosopher King, No Philosopher King Inserts, Two Dollar Radio HQMinus Plato

On page 29 of No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life under Trump (which you can order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or the Wexner Center Store), at the beginning of Chapter 2 (‘Mourning Diary’), you can read: [w]e knew that we had something very concrete and specific that we could […]

Empty Daybook – Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor on 12,000 BCE

2nd September 2019UncategorizedEmpty Daybook, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-TaylorMinus Plato

The Neolithic Revolution in the Levant and Mesopotamia marked the first domestication of plants, animals, and humans. With our sedentarization, we opened ourselves up to cultures being diminished ecologically, nutritionally, and spiritually, and to the construction of hierarchical, centralized, socialpolitical regimes and their inherent inhibition of liberties. Occasionally romanticized by anthropologists as “the original affluent […]

Empty Daybook – Ibrahim Mahama on 27 May 1525

28th August 2019UncategorizedEmpty Daybook, Ibrahim MahamaMinus Plato

Crisis and failure have always been material and political. The struggle for freedom promises renewed potential for social justice and equality but also the possibility for completely counter outcomes. The struggle must continue to intervene in existing conditions and propose alternative futures, leaving stains and residues that distort the known image. These may induce a […]

“I Owe You Everything, Still Remains”: The British Museum Caryatid Speaks

26th August 2019UncategorizedAuguste Rodin, caryatids, Caryatids and the Patriarchy, Chief Robert Joseph, Clémentine Deliss, Frédéric Keck, I Owe You Everything, I Owe You Everything Still Remains, Occupy Museums, South as a State of Mind, The British Museum, The Parliament of BodiesMinus Plato

It is 1881. She somehow finds herself in London, visiting the British Museum. She is looking at the caryatid from the Erechtheion. As she wonders how much she is missing her sisters (she too is missing her sisters), in walks renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin, accompanied by a group of gentlemen from the museum. Rodin […]