This eleventh episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like was created the day after the US Midterm elections as part of Scottish artist Ross Birrell’s visit to Ohio to accompany his banner ‘democracy to come’ and its installation in the Sullivant Hall rotunda at Ohio State University for the month of November. The episode […]
In this tenth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, with the US Midterm elections less than a week away and in the immediate aftermath of elections in Serbia, Brazil and Israel, each telling their own stories about representative democracy and its limits, this episode follows the money and looks for value in democratic […]
In this ninth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we circle back to earlier themes in the visual culture of democracy (architecture, ‘The People’ vs people, memory, otherness, and violence), the juxtaposition of ruins and life in Andreas Angelidakis’ Demos (2016-ongoing), and things that have spirits. Ruins and Life in Democratic Visual Culture […]
In this eighth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we engage with topics of memory, otherness and violence in the visual culture of democracy, Erna Rosenstein’s Night (1993) and vital strategies against forgetting. Memory, otherness & violence in democratic visual culture Erna Rosenstein Night (1993) Memory, Otherness and Violence in the Summer of […]
In this seventh episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we think about both “The People” and people in the visual culture of democracy, Apostolos Georgiou’s Untitled (2016) and all those people who at some point, in some place, in some way reacted to what was putting them down by posing thousands of questions. […]
In this sixth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on architecture, monuments and spaces in the visual culture of democracy, Rebecca Belmore’s Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) (2017) and the eruption of truth. Architecture, Monuments & Spaces in Democratic Visual Culture Rebecca Belmore Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) (2017) “When it was carefully […]
In this fifth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we consider representations of censorship, freedom of the press and book bans in the visual culture of democracy, Marta Minujín The Parthenon of Books (1983/2017) and two competing forms of freedom. Censorship, Freedom of the Press, and Book Bans in Democratic Visual Culture Marta […]
In this fourth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of religious coexistence in the visual culture of democracy, K.G. Subramanyan’s 2013 mural War of the Relics and the sharing of Indigenous spirituality and warmth. Religious Coexistence in Democratic Visual Culture K.G. Subramanyan’s War of the Relics Measuring 2.7 by 10.9 […]
On this day, September 14, 10 years ago in Parko Eleftherias (‘Freedom Park’), Athens, Greece, months before the exhibition’s opening in April 2017, the documenta 14 public program Parliament of Bodies initiated 34 Exercises of Freedom – a series of talks, conversations, artist lectures and performances. See below for the full description of the program, […]
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 […]