1970: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorn made a tour of American universities – Harvard (from where I am writing these lines [sic.], Yale, and Berkeley, among others. […]. When Godard and Gorin made their tour, American campuses were ready to rise up. They called on students to offer their support to the Black Panther Party […]
October 18, 1970: Pasolini is in Sana’a. It is his last day of shooting of The Decameron (1971). With leftover film, he composes a cinematic call to UNESCO advocating preservation of Sana’a’s historical center “in the name of the scandalous, revolutionary force of the past.” In 1986, Pasolini’s call will be heard: Sana’a old city […]
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]
In The Illogic of Kassel, Enrique Vila-Matas never warms to the role he was invited to play at dOCUMENTA (13), as ‘Writer in Residence’ at a Chinese restaurant on the edge of Karlsaue Park. He spends the majority of the novel attempting to escape this role, including the invention of a fictional writer to go […]