In this third episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of freedom of expression in the visual culture of democracy, Edi Hila’s 1972 painting Planting of Trees and building communities of freedom. Freedom of Expression in democratic visual culture Edi Hila Planting of Trees (1972) “He had been banished […]
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created for the online class Art Education 2600: Visual Culture: Representation and Society that I’m currently teaching at This Ohio State University. It […]
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created for the online class Art Education 2600: Visual Culture: Representation and Society that I’m currently teaching at This Ohio State University. […]
This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. The content of the d14 website is no more accessible to the public for legal reasons as of 2018. However, it is always possible to […]
1. As I explained in last week’s post, it is not possible to continue the project Freedom Park Fridays since the videos of the events of 34 Exercises of Freedom (in Athens, September 14-24, 2016) on which the project is based, have been taken down from the documenta 14 website. 2. I sent an email […]
Another Friday rolls around and here you are expecting your weekly soothing (well, maybe not soothing, but at least refreshingly different!) experience back in September 2016 (before the storm) in Athens at The Parliament of Bodies public program of documenta 14. Sadly I have to report that today I made the disturbing discovery that the […]
I know it is Friday and you have been waiting for some respite from Trump’s atrocious beat all week, but before you can rest you must take a journey, you must follow Diana Taylor to Villa Grimaldi in Chile, a torture center for the Pinochet regime. I know this is not what you want to […]
This Friday, I only have one exercise for you to do, over and over again, when the opportunity presents itself: vote, vote for your life. A warning tale of when authoritarian regimes get a hold of its citizens and intrumentalize them to do their dirty work comes from the 1981 film Your Neighbor’s Son: The […]
Another Friday, after another tough week, this time culminating with the threatened violence of domestic terrorism, carried out, if not by, at least in the name of the Trump administration. While you may not feel up to watching a lecture about torture by historian Kostis Kornetis amid such traumatic conditions, you can at least turn […]