Tag Archives: Àbadakone

The Knowledge of Broken Boxes (Do You Remember? You Do Remember!)

7th January 2022The Library of the FutureÀbadakone, Alan Fletcher, Benin Bronzes, Broken Boxes, Cannupa Hanksa Luger, Ginger Dunnill, Indigo Gonzales, Jose Manuel Fors, Mi'kwite'tmn, STTLMNT, Ursula JohnsonMinus Plato

“What are you making?” I am making conversation – Ursula Johnson to Ginger Dunnill on Broken Boxes podcast, 15 March, 2016 When writing Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story, the sequence of daily posts that act as a steady build up towards Minus Plato’s endgame and the exhibition Whisper into a Hole (watch […]

Tracey Moffatt’s Windows into the Miraculous

8th September 2021The Library of the FutureÀbadakone, Bas Jan Ader, In Search of the Miraculous, Marcia Langton, Spectacle, The House of the Spirits, The White Ghost Sailed In, Tracey Moffatt, Welcome to Country, Women Make FilmsMinus Plato

This month, Spectacle, the collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY that was founded in 2010, is hosting a screening of the Films of Tracey Moffatt, in collaboration with Women Make Movies. Here is what they write about the artist and their film-work on their website: Tracey Moffatt may be best known in the art world as […]

The Gilding of Echo

9th December 2020Uncategorized10th Berlin Biennale, 11th Berlin Biennale, Àbadakone, Beau Dick, Candice Hopkins, Carnegie International, Claire Tancons, documenta 14, Echo is Golden, Emeka Ogboh, Geta Brătescu, Huguette Caland, Irena Haiduk, Isuma Tv, Jace Clayton, Jane Bowles, Joe Biden, Journey Beyond the Arrow, Kamin Lerchaiprasert, Khadim Ali, Kidlat Tahimik, Koyo Kouoh, Leaving the Echo Chamber, Léuli Eshrāghi, Like Wind on Rushes, Look for me All Around You, Making New Time, Maria Papadimitriou, Mattin, Miriam Makaba, Mohau Modisakeng, Nairy Baghramian, Ningiukulu Teevee, NIRIN Sydney Biennale, Omar Kholeif, Otobong Nkanga, Peter Friedl, Pope. L, Postcommodity, Rebecca Belmore, Regina José Galindo, Rick Lowe, Sharjah Biennial 14, Social Dissonance, Toronto Biennial, Tracey Rose, Victoria Square Project, Vivian Suter, Whisper into a Hole, Whispering Campaign, Zoe ButtMinus Plato

After some delay, what says the public? It’s Joe’s time! So now, at long last, the smooth transition of a backwards flow towards normalcy softens the bite of an increasing viral death toll, trimming the long nails of Trumpism…for now. But in the meantime, what can art do for US? Either draw a line in […]

O the virtue of ignorance! So much nothing in this Doom life! Here’s the thing: who’s going to read this? Ask anyone but me. By Hercules, no one, not one person, no single body. Either sing a duet or be dumb in silence. Nothing between. “How deplorable to be deploring of art!” (There’s no basket […]

A New Solitude in the Stacks

26th June 2020Uncategorized10th Berlin Biennale, Àbadakone, Alex Jovanovich, Ali Toure Farka, Amanda King, Amber Ford, Amir Berbic, and other stories Chicago Architecture Biennial, aneducation, Aristide Antonas, Aruna D'Souza, Audre Lorde, Banu Cennetoğlu, Candice Breitz, Carnegie International, Clare Butcher, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Library, Contemporary And, Cornelius Cardew, Dale Harding, Elizabeth Emery, Front International, Gennadius Library, Igo Diarra, Isuma, Jamal Cyrus, Joar Nango, Kelekela! Library, Kerry James Marshall, La Medina, LaTanya S. Autry, Learning from Timbuktu, les gens d’Uterpan, Léuli Eshrāghi, Libraries, Like Wind on Rushes, Lucius Burckhardt, Luis Jacob, M. Carmen Lane, Maria Eichhorn, Marta Minujín, Material Matters Library, Michael Rakowitz, MOCA Cleveland, Paulo Friere, Peppermint, Pope. L, RA Washington, Rasheed Araeen, Rose Valland Institute, Ross Birrell, Sepake Angiama, Sharjah Biennial 14, Shezad Dawood, Spaces Cleveland, Studio 14, Tamir Rice, Tamir Rice Foundation, Taveres Strachan, The American Library, The Empty Days Library, The Parthenon of Books, The Unfinished Exhibition, Third Text, Tools for Learning, Toronto Biennial, Under the Mango Tree, Vincent Tao, Whisper into a Hole, Yinka ShonibareMinus Plato

Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]

Even now, in the memory, she dazzles, must be circled about and about. We may perceive her indirectly, in her effects on others … Ah, the dead, the unended, endlessly ending dead: how long, how rich is their story. We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we […]

Requited Flame (RF) for Àbadakone

29th February 2020UncategorizedÀbadakone, Requited FlameMinus Plato

[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 […]