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 […]
Politics aside (ha!), how many times during your virtual travels through Pandemic Land have you stumbled across some website or other and thought to yourself ‘Well, this looks good’, only to realize, a few clicks in, that your attention hits an impasse (it only runs skin-deep) and so you move your cursor on? So much […]
Mondays: Minus Plato Speaks Tuesdays: The 7701 Files Wednesday: Render Unto Thursday: Paul’s Pharos Fridays: Feedback Delay Fridays Saturdays: Soundscapes of an unfinished exhibition Sundays: Radio Keimena
But, I hear you ask, what’s the point of irritating your listeners’ tender ears with a biting truth? You should take care that the hallways of the grand old institutions and their oh so distinguished executive directors don’t freeze you out and they will if you keep barking at their hypocrisy on the radio. Better […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]
O the virtue of ignorance! So much nothing in this Doom life! Here’s the thing: who’s going to read this? Ask anyone but me. By Hercules, no one, not one person, no single body. Either sing a duet or be dumb in silence. Nothing between. “How deplorable to be deploring of art!” (There’s no basket […]
Minus Plato: I am currently in Madrid & I was excited to learn of your radio project Singing is what makes work possible (Syllabus) at the Museo Reina Sofía (I am especially intrigued by the ‘syllabus’ you created!). May I ask, Hong-Kai, is there any connection between your documenta 14 commission for their pubic radio […]
On August 20, 21 and 22, 2017, I posted three posts on Minus Plato about the sound piece Medea by Soundwalk Collective. Here they are to refresh your memory: The first post is just the cover of the book Medea, the second a link to the sound piece (with a video by Vincent Moon), while […]
