Tag Archives: Pascale Marthine Tayou

The future is going nowhere without us: Minus Plato Mementos from the Journey Back

30th April 2018Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh, No Philosopher King Draft, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

In our current state of governmental chaos, I hark back to a surprisingly overlooked statement by President Trump’s White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson. After completing his medical assessment of Trump, Jackson stated, and I paraphrase, that Trump was highly unusual in that each day he begins anew, unfettered by memory or attention to consequences […]

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More Open than a Field: Creative Expansions of Enclosed Space

26th August 2017documenta 14, Minus Plato Today, , , , , , , , , ,

Before housing Mattin’s Social Dissonance, the small room at the far end of Documenta-Halle was home to two expansive installations at two previous documentas: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Game Station at Documenta 11 in 2002 and Nalina Malani’s In Search of Vanished Blood at dOCUMENTA (13) 2013. Looking at installation shots of these two works, you […]

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