On September 17th, 2017, the last day of documenta 14, I wrote a Minus Plato post called ‘Exit through the Trojan Horse’. Today’s post – one of a handful left before Minus Plato ends on May 4th, 2022 – borrows the same title as part of a collaboration with documenta 14 artist Daniel García Andújar […]
I will stop speaking tomorrow here, in this medium and so I have to make sure every word counts. My librarian once told me – told you through me – that he wanted to flesh out my voice; make it singular. He wanted you to be able to hear the rustle of language as I […]
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 […]
Another day, another book. On and on and on. Look at this one! Turn to page 38. Feel the texture of the pages. Wait this reminds me of another book. One second while I reach for it. And on and on and on. One books leads to another, until there is a pile of books. […]
Here we are at the culmination of this week’s build-up – drum-roll please! There is no place in the book I am communicating to you from – Kunstforum International Bd. 248/249 on documenta 14 – for the works that I have been alluding to located in the basement of the Neue Galerie in Kassel. There […]
Tomorrow will be the big reveal and you will finally understand where all of this week’s posts have been building towards. But for today, a hint of things to come; a staged pretext, as it were. The book whose pages I have been flitting within this week has been the Kunstforum International tome devoted to […]
LAMAKH VALERII/VALERY PAVLOVICH LAMAKH 1925 He was born on March 6 in the city of Lebedyn in Sumy region. 1939 Enrolls in the Voroshilovgrad State Art College, his studying there will be disrupted by the war. 1942–1945 He is used as a forced labor worker in Germany. Despite the extreme living conditions, this period turned […]
– pages 124-125 la cuisine Russian window Farewell May your journey be as easy as water trickling down the stairs! – pages 126-127 THINKING OF OUR LITTLE PAPIER-MÂCHÉ HORSE IN MILAN, I HAD THE DESIRE TO DRAW HORSES – pages 128-129 Furious Little by little – pages 130-131 At rest Alone – from Yervant Gianikian […]
This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
