Cultured Culture and Radiant Eroticism: Gloeden’s Bacchus and Takis’ Saint Sebastian

21st July 2017Documenta 6Alexander Iolas, Bacchus, Blueprints for a Past Future, Prinz Gholam, Roland Barthes, Saint Sebastian, Takis, Wilhelm von Gloeden, William E. JonesMinus Plato

I missed My Sweet Country, the series of performances by Prinz Gholem at the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the Odeion of Agrippa in the Agora. However, I was luck enough to meet someone in Athens who had been there and she sent me some photographs and videos she took of their performances, such as […]

Athens Documenta Diary, Day 4: Unauthorized Ruins at Athinaiki Techniki

12th June 2017Andreas Angelidakis, Athens Documenta DiaryAlexander Iolas, Andreas Angelidakis, Athens Documenta Diary, documenta 14, William E. JonesMinus Plato

Dear William and Andreas, I hope this finds you both well and that you don’t mind me writing you this joint message. I wanted to let you know that I had spent the morning here in Athens looking for you both, first missing you and then finding you in some unexpected places. I know this […]