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. […]
I’ve spent all my life washing dishes And composing poems most sublime And this has lent me all of my life’s wisdom And made my temperament film and mild I watch the water flow and comprehend it Below my window – the people and the powers Whatever I don’t like I simply overrule it And […]
Do you see that little door and that small house over there? – Strepsiades in Aristophanes’ Clouds Three Athenians (let us call them Bia, Alexis and Nina) live together in a tiny house on the outskirts of Kassel. They are here to work at Documenta, the exhibition that this small German city hosts every five […]