Apollo’s Lyre and Pandora’s Box: Douglas Crimp on the Neoconservative Museum

7th November 2017Minus Plato TodayApollo, documenta 7, Douglas Crimp, MoMA, Museum, neoconservative, Pandora, ZeitgeistMinus Plato

In preparation for his talk at the Wexner Center for the Arts next week, I have been reading Douglas Crimp’s On the Museum’s Ruins. The book, published in 1993, gathers together essays that Crimp had previously published (especially in October) in the 1980s, alongside a selection of Louise Lawler’s photographs. Mid-way through the introduction (“Photography […]

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 […]