Body Beauty Bookshelves: Cicero’s pegmata and les gens d’Uterpan’s “Library”

25th September 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayAnnie Vigier, Atticus, Cicero, Franck Apertet, les gens d’Uterpan, Libraries, slaveryMinus Plato

In a letter to Atticus (Att. 4. 8. 2), Cicero expresses his delight at the installation of some new bookshelves in an oddly convoluted and high-flown fashion: postea uero, quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit, mens addita uidetur meis aedibus. qua quidem in re mirifica opera Dionysi et Menophili tui fuit. nihil uenustius quam illa tua […]

Letters to Atticus: A Minus Plato Guide to the Opening Day of Documenta 14

7th April 2017Athens, Atticus, Cicero, documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayAthens, Atticus, Cicero, documenta 14Minus Plato

Tomorrow documenta 14 opens in Athens. Like the fifth book of Cicero’s On Moral Ends, I want Minus Plato to be the place that you can encounter Athens, its sites (such as the Temple of Olympian Zeus) and the artists’ work (e.g.Prinz Gholam’s My Sweet Country) through a far-away simulation and an imaginary dialogue. So, […]