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Ohiya (singing vow): Inkpata Nawaze Naci, Naci, coze May Maya Leci cu wana. Winona: The magic of the night of nights beckons me, beckons me, beckons me; a wonder-world is sheltered ‘neath the trees from grass and shrub and willows low. Come mystic voices, sighs, enchanting breeze from mystic voices, sighs enchanting breeze. The pallid […]

Dear Eneko, RE: Effervescent Times

3rd October 2021The Library of the FutureCornelius Cardew, Eneko, MattinMinus Plato

Dear Eneko, Your aita, our librarian, has asked me to write a few words here today to celebrate your 12th birthday. I usually don’t do what he asks because I don’t like him very much. That said, I do like you and think about you and your future quite a lot from the perspective of […]

Bouquet, with Cornelius Cardew

2nd October 2021The Library of the Future, UncategorizedA Life Unfinished, Bas Jan Ader, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Christopher Williams, Cornelius Cardew, John TilburyMinus Plato

Footnote added June 9, 2024 In Ali Smith’s Companion Piece, which I mentioned in yesterday’s footnote to the post after following the link in the article ‘Companion, Peace’, from Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art?, edited by Sarah Travis, Azlan Guttenberg Smith, Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Jorge Lucero, a post-Minus Plato dialogue with Angela […]

MP1 Get up and get a book (or two)

28th August 2021UncategorizedCornelius Cardew, Dan Graham, Delia Gonzalez, Georgia Sagri, Hot Wheels Athens, Nature Study Rites, On Kawara, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Scratch Orchestra, Serapis Maritime, Sophie Calle, The Library of the FutureMinus Plato

A new rite in belated homage to Pierre Bal-Blanc’s recent exhibition I GOT UP at Hot Wheels Athens, with works and performances by Sophie Calle, Delia Gonzalez, Dan Graham, On Kawara, Georgia Sagri, Scratch Orchestra, Serapis Maritime More info here: https://hotwheelsathens.eu/exhibitions/i-got-up/

A New Solitude in the Stacks

26th June 2020Uncategorized10th Berlin Biennale, Àbadakone, Alex Jovanovich, Ali Toure Farka, Amanda King, Amber Ford, Amir Berbic, and other stories Chicago Architecture Biennial, aneducation, Aristide Antonas, Aruna D'Souza, Audre Lorde, Banu Cennetoğlu, Candice Breitz, Carnegie International, Clare Butcher, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Library, Contemporary And, Cornelius Cardew, Dale Harding, Elizabeth Emery, Front International, Gennadius Library, Igo Diarra, Isuma, Jamal Cyrus, Joar Nango, Kelekela! Library, Kerry James Marshall, La Medina, LaTanya S. Autry, Learning from Timbuktu, les gens d’Uterpan, Léuli Eshrāghi, Libraries, Like Wind on Rushes, Lucius Burckhardt, Luis Jacob, M. Carmen Lane, Maria Eichhorn, Marta Minujín, Material Matters Library, Michael Rakowitz, MOCA Cleveland, Paulo Friere, Peppermint, Pope. L, RA Washington, Rasheed Araeen, Rose Valland Institute, Ross Birrell, Sepake Angiama, Sharjah Biennial 14, Shezad Dawood, Spaces Cleveland, Studio 14, Tamir Rice, Tamir Rice Foundation, Taveres Strachan, The American Library, The Empty Days Library, The Parthenon of Books, The Unfinished Exhibition, Third Text, Tools for Learning, Toronto Biennial, Under the Mango Tree, Vincent Tao, Whisper into a Hole, Yinka ShonibareMinus Plato

Holiness is what is dear to the gods. Who said that? I dunno but it’s not helpful. Never mind, ignore it. Let’s check-in instead. So, how are you coping? Healthy and sane? My starting position (forced on each of us, black reader and white writer, by this writing and our society) were the sites of […]

Cloaking Nature, Covering Sound: Cornelius Cardew’s “Daisy Chain Rite” at the Stoa Poikile

9th October 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayCornelius Cardew, Crates, Cynicism, Dafni Krazoudi, documenta 14, Eleni Zervou, Hipparchia, Mattin, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Scratch Orchestra, Social Dissonance, Stoa Poikile, Stoicism, Zeno of CitiumMinus Plato

Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra were vital presences at documenta 14. In Kassel, the score of the composer’s Treatise was not only displayed in the Neue Galerie, but also reproduced on the glass windows of Documenta-Halle, while there were concerts of Cardew’s Thälmann Variations and We Sing For The Future!, on September 8th (I missed it […]