Come Along With Her: Melissa Vogley Woods’ Drop-In Workshops

8th March 2017Come Along With Me, Diotima, Hipparchia, Leontium, Melissa Vogley Woods, Minus Plato Today, UncategorizedCome Along With Me, Diotima, Hipparchia, Leontium, Melissa Vogley WoodsMinus Plato

Today I celebrated International Women’s Day by taking part in artist Melissa Vogley Woods’ first drop-in workshop at the Riffe Gallery. Anyone familiar with Melissa’s work, from her videos (e.g Boxed) or her paintings (e.g. Consequences), would instantly know that these workshops would be messy, tantalizing, thoughtful and inspirational. Planned in coordination with the exhibition […]

Were we a Dialogue? Diotima at Black Mountain College

5th January 2017Black Mountain College, Dialogue, Leap Before You Look, Minus Plato TodayAlain Badiou, Black Mountain College, Diotima, Francine du Plessix, Leap Before You Look, Socrates, Susan HoweMinus Plato

Today was my first time in the Wexner Center for the Arts after the end of the exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957. It was a strange experience as I’d lived with that exhibition in such an intimate way over the past few months. I taught two classes that inspired and engaged […]