In this third episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of freedom of expression in the visual culture of democracy, Edi Hila’s 1972 painting Planting of Trees and building communities of freedom. Freedom of Expression in democratic visual culture Edi Hila Planting of Trees (1972) “He had been banished […]
When you’ve watched the 14 hours of Exergue on documenta 14 (2024), I think you will be ready to watch Wang Bing’s 15 Hours (2017) as your next task. – Adam Szymczyk message to students in the Ohio State University classes Contemporary Theory and Art Education and The Social World of the Arts, Fall 2025, […]
In 1889, Congress openly seized land in Indian Territory for white settlement. The land runs thundered. Many of the settler towns created in the land runs are ghost towns now. Timber, railroads, and mining leaving a host of cavernous emptiness in their wake. What is a ghost town in a nation whose settlements, roads, and […]
“I have always been an imposter!” – Ross Birrell Footnote for the Future: A Democracy To Come? Ohio, 2026
April 18 April 19 April 21 May 16 May 26 June 2 June 7 June 11 July 19 August 5 August 8 August 10 September 2 Appendix: A Disturbed Memory of Ametria Richard Fletcher When I think of all the possible memories of Ametria, from the intense and deep recollections by the curators and architects […]
– from Laura Da’ ‘Raven Gets Meta’, in tributaries. University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Episode 1: The House Three Athenians (let us call them Bia, Alexis and Nina) live together in a tiny house on the outskirts of Kassel. They are here to work at Documenta, the exhibition that this small German city hosts every five years. This year the curators have divided the exhibition between Athens and Kassel […]
But empire, its idiot families and colonialist invasions, land grabs and resource exploitations, goes further back. As does its exploitation of language, both visual and linguistic. Auder’s new video installation The Course of Empire (2017) is inspired by the eponymous series of paintings created by Thomas Cole from 1833 to 1836. A “text film,” constructed from iPhone […]
