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 […]

Protreptic for Cyprus: Crates, Aristotle and Manifesta 6

18th September 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato TodayAristotle, Crates, Cyprus, James Voorhies, Manifesta 6Minus Plato

Ahead of his talk today at the Wexner Center for the Arts, I have been reading James Voorhies’ book Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968. As part of his fourth chapter on ‘The Industrial Art Complex’, Voorhies discusses how cancellation of Manifesta 6 in 2006 in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia […]