One and Three Readers: Black Documenta Dada Mother

1st November 2017Minus Plato TodayAdam Pendleton, Black Dada Reder, documenta 14, Documenta 14 Reader, Greek readers, Identity politics, Mother Reader, Moyra Davey, Quinn Latimer, SisypheanMinus Plato

The ancient Greek reader didn’t own his own voice; the act of audible reading dispossessed him of it. “If he lends his voice to these mute signs, the text appropriates it: his voice becomes the voice of the written text,” Svenbro stresses. “He has lent his voice, relinquished it.” Is there a debt to repay […]

As surely as Medusa: Monica Ross’ justfornow for Minus Plato Today

12th September 2017Minus Plato Todaydocumenta 14, Helene Cixous, Hilary Clinton, justfornow.net, Liquid Antiquity, Mattin, Medusa, Monica Ross, Mother Reader, Moyra Davey, Nina Papacpnstantinou, Petra Cortright, sarah goetz, Social DissonanceMinus Plato

On my return from Kassel and Athens, from documenta 14 and Liquid Antiquity, I not only found myself in the middle of my life (on turning 38 while away), but also back in the middle of the Wexner Store, holding in my hands a new book of an artist I had never heard of. This […]