A voice comes from somewhere (or within), braying: Well, listen to him! So sanctimonious in his white wokeness and so-called decolonial critique (whatever that is)! We see what you’re doing, writing this out loud for strangers’ ears, but inwardly, under your typing tongue, you murmur, “Oh, let the old guard suffer, so I can profit!”. […]
Chris Marker: Staring Back, curated by Bill Horrigan, may have been the best single-gallery B exhibition I have ever seen. Here are some of the Wexner Center’s own photographs of the opening, with then director Sherri Geldin. Such a memorable exhibition deserves mementos – including a catalog, postcard and front page on the calendar. Does […]
Last episode I left you with Cornel West. He was speaking about the blues as part of the exhibition Blues for Smoke, which was on show here in Columbus at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2013 at the same time as Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai, with its concluding poetic call for the […]
For a project I created in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts during the run of their exhibition William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time (February 3-April 15, 2018), I made a questionnaire that asked Wexner staff and visitors (both in person and online) to think about the passing of time in their lives. There […]
The clip is only one minute and six seconds long, and was uploaded on September 11, 2012 by someone calling themselves guysintrouble. A young Alec Baldwin is being led in handcuffs through a hallway with two guards and his female lawyer, played by Stephanie Zimbalist, an actress I have never heard of or seen before. […]
April 19: As Trump orders tightening of visas for highly skilled foreign workers, Minus Plato are in New York City learning about the connection between Persian couriers and US mail-workers. April 20: As Minus Plato travel the subway in search of the Minotaur of the subway, we learn that a Russian Putin-linked think tank developed […]
“The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it.” Sure, the idiotic idea of your never-to-be-built-wall may have emerged, fully-formed, from your head, like some phantom Athena (the “Wall”). But this Wall remains a figment of your limited imagination no matter how many real-time revisions […]
We have spent the last week imagining what it would have been like to have been flies on the wall of Michael Wolff’s first days inside the White House. If we were able to use some form of time-travel-metamorphosis machine to transport and transform ourselves, through time and space, we wish we were there at […]
You had expected to find Chris Marker’s The Owl’s Legacy somewhere at documenta 14, perhaps as a reference in one of the publications or mentioned in passing in a line of wall text, but not in the form of a usb key hanging from a piece of string. When you made an unplanned visit to […]
Minus Plato presents: What Apollo Saw: Picturing Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition, 2008 – for Bill Horrigan Instructions: Click play on the video below Listen (it is very quiet, so listen carefully) Click in the white space below the video Using the down arrow key, scroll down s l o w l y When […]