Staging the Necropastoral Mimicry of Whiteness

24th February 2022The Library of the Future1619, Alice Cheng, Claudia Rankine, Jeff Wall, Joyelle McSweeney, Necropastoral, Paul Graham, White LionMinus Plato

A necropastoral. This term is not in the dictionary. Where did I first hear it? [cf. Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘What Is the Necropastoral?‘] It does not exist and yet it was said and is now being repeated. I was born. In a slave narrative that means nothing. Meaningless. I was born and in the midst of […]

Knowledge is a Vice

14th January 2022UncategorizedAlice Cheng, Amanda Tobin, Anna Freeman, Banu Cennetoğlu, BEINGSAFEISSCARY, De'Avin Mitchell, Dieter Roelstraete, documenta 14, Layla Muchnik-Benali, Mousse Publishing, Rick Lowe, Victoria Square Project, Whisper into a Hole, Whispering Campaign, Zachary CahillMinus Plato

He has a secret that he’s not sure he wants me to share with you all, but I just can’t keep it in anymore, so I have to whisper it here, into this hole of a blogpost. He collects wall-texts. Well, that’s not exactly right, he steals them, and by ‘them’, the moniker ‘wall-text’ seems […]