bell hooks is in all our books

16th December 2021The Library of the FutureAnnette Krauss, bell hooks, Casco Art Institute, Cauleen Smith, Kate Laster, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, Nina Simone, Sepake Angiama, Silvia FedericiMinus Plato

Intimacy is a vital ingredient for learning – especially when working within informal spaces. To learn from each other and be open to knowledge requires us to be vulnerable, to trust, and to be willing to actively listen openly. – Sepake Angiama ‘Intimacy’, in ‘aneducation documenta 14’, Archive Books: Berlin, 2018 I share these books […]

A bird fell to earth, reincarnated from her birth: Euripides in the House of Nina Simone

18th November 2017Minus Plato TodayAdam Pendleton, Ellen Gallagher, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, Julie Mehretu, Megan Miller, Nina Simone, Rashid JohnsonMinus Plato

Birds flying high you know how I feel – Nina Simone “Feeling Good” Why you wanna fly Blackbird You ain’t ever gonna fly Why you wanna fly Blackbird You ain’t ever gonna fly – Nina Simone, “Blackbird” The tension between the bird’s desire to fly and the failure of its flight in Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling […]