Today is the first day back at school for my son, Eneko, and the first week of classes at Ohio State University, where I’ll be teaching the class ‘documenta 14 and the ‘decolonial turn’: Contemporary Theory and Art Education’. As a way to celebrate all of the students heading back to class from their summers […]
A belated happy new year to all our Minus Plato readers! I have been busy putting together The Minus Plato Library as well as creating a series of teaching projects related to art and education after documenta 14 and I am now ready to share them with you all. Stretching across two courses (Art Education […]
As promised in Wednesday’s post, here is the first part of the Black Athena Reloaded session from the documenta 14 public program The Parliament of Bodies: While the second session focused on the brutal slavery document, Le code noir, this first discussion engages the theme of ‘Ideas as Migrants – Our Common Ghosts’, and is […]
In his interview with Rahima Gambo in the education issue of the magazine C& (which you can read here), British-Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi describes a basic tension within his approach to photographic education, both his own and that of a younger generation that he mentors. He explains his role in founding the Centers for Learning […]
[Minus Plato is undergoing some technical difficulties with image uploads so I apologize for the scarcity of pictures to accompany this post. I hope to have this rectified before tomorrow] When I woke up this morning I had a somewhat modest plan for the day: to visit the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) by way […]