Tag Archives: Forum

Alpha to Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: Ch is for Chorus

17th July 2017Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia, documenta 14, Minus Plato Todaychorus, Denise Araouzou, documenta 14, Emeka Ogboh, Forum, Our Athens Nostalgia, sarah goetz, TragedyMinus Plato

On your last day in Athens you booked into a tour of the Odeion, lead by a member of the documenta chorus, Denise Araouzou. You wanted to see and hear the art of this space that you had repeatedly returned to through the eyes and ears of another. You were drawn to the description of […]

In the beginning was the blog: Daniel G. Andújar’s Keywords and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina’s Philosophers

5th June 2017Bilbao, Daniel G. Andújar, Keywords, Minus Plato On Location, Minus Plato Today, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, ZenoActivism, Anonymity, Appropriation, Archive, Art Action, Biennial, Broadcast, Cartography, Citizenship, City, Collective, Community, Concepts, Conceptual, Conflict, Connection, Consumer, Consumption, Control, Copyright, Credibility, Cultural Capital, Cultural Identity, Cultural Politics, Culture, Daniel G. Andújar, Democracy, Device, Distributed, Documentation, Exclusion, Fair, Forum, Freedom of Expression, Frontier, Globalization, Half, Hierarchy, Identity, Illegality, Imposition, Inauguration, Information, Installations, Institutions, Interface, Internet, Interpretation, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Legitimate Rage, Manipulated, Market, Memory, Museum, Negotiation, Nets, Participation, Performance, Plato, Politics, Presentation, Preservation, Press, Production, Project, Properly, Provocation, Public Space, Public/Private, Real/Virtual, Redefinition, Rehabilitation, Represent, Rereading, Resistance, Responsibility, Risk, Seneca, Simulation, Social Sciences, Socrates, Staging, Studio, Substitution, System, Technology, Tool, Visibility, Workshop, ZenoMinus Plato

On arriving in Bilbao last night I was excited to discover the collection of books that I left in Rebeka’s mother’s apartment, bought during our year sabbatical in Madrid (2014-15). Knowing that I would buy more books than I could fit in my suitcase, I not only left these books here on our way back […]

University as Forum: Muntadas, John Rapko and Berkeley 2001

19th March 2017Berkeley, Forum, John Rapko, Minus Plato Today, Muntadas, UncategorizedBerkeley, Forum, John Rapko, MuntadasMinus Plato

Recently I have been thinking about the Forum as a model for an exhibition – not only the Roman Forum, but also the Imperial Fora and even Domitian’s palace complex. What would it mean for an audience to encounter performative artworks in the way ancient Romans encountered speeches at the Rostra, ambassadors at the Graecostasis […]