If you missed the secret. Go back to yesterday’s post. Today is the beginning of the fallout; the aftermath of the Minus Plato project. The reason that he has invited me – a library’s ghost – to speak over these past months on a daily basis is to demonstrate through the sifting, sorting, packing up, […]
Where were we? Where is this is all leading? Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story has been the replacement of some books with others, a library with another library, by a scholar to come who listens to ghosts. And, now, the secret at the heart of this project and of all that is […]
Maybe he senses that the end is near and that is why he has brought me back. I don’t know. He is fickle and so part of me felt, even though he kept taking books from my shelves and posting about or around them, he had moved on and past this daily project (he uses […]
In a piece she titled Anima, or Soul, which she executed in Oaxaca in 1976, she appropriated the Mexican tradition of fireworks displays by having a bamboo armature made in the shape of her own body, attaching small fireworks to it, and setting them ablaze (pl. 18). As is common in her other works, this […]
On September 26, 1954, the eighteen year-old Alejandra Pizarnik recorded in her diary: I must write or die. I must fill up notebooks or die. Two days later she added, I want to free myself! I want to live!
In 2005, we embodied the fallen figure and mourner depicted in the lower right corner of Eugène Delacroix’s epic Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople. The title of the painting indicates that the entrance of the crusaders into Constantinople in 1402 occurred on April 12. 12. April is not only the title of our work; it […]
The right of revolution grants the people of a nation the right to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests. In political philosophy, the right of revolution was developed as a concept in Two Treatise on Government, written by John Locke at the beginning of the Enlightenment. The right to revolution was included […]
Walter Benjamin ended his life in this small border town of Spain, having crossed over from France the day before using a mountain trail. I visited his grave and memorial sculpture at the clifftop cemetery in 2004. This profound experience led to a work and collaboration with Ross Birrell that continues to this day.
The Sun, Chapter 1 was exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, a museum located on the former grounds of the 1939 World’s Fair. The painting depicts the front page of a newspaper from Monday, October 14, 1940. This date marks when, after having visited the fair, my grandfather and great-grandfather […]
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, triggered by the German invasion of Poland, Hitler had the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale rebuilt in the martial, classicist style he championed. After more than sixty million casualties, the war ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. The 1993 Venice […]