Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 6: Dreams

27th October 2017Minus Plato Today, Myths for Mutual PedagogyAdam Pendleton, Anna Halprin, Anne Carson, Artists, Classicists, Dreams, Fred Moten, Joan Retallack, Myths for Mutual Pedagogy, Peter Krapp, Plato Symposium, Sandi Hilal, Supposium, Team-TeachingMinus Plato

You are team-teaching a class with an artist, in which both you and your fellow teacher received full credit, called Free Us from the Western Canon and you are currently working on a project in which the students recreate Plato’s Symposium along the model of MoMA’s first “Supposium”, held in March 2014 under the title Beyond Default […]

Halved for Pickling: Xavier Le Roy’s “Self Unfinished”

11th March 2017Androgyne Myth, Minus Plato Today, Plato Symposium, Uncategorized, Xavier Le RoyAndrgyne Myth, Plato Symposium, Xavier Le RoyMinus Plato

Once upon a time, there were three kinds of human beings: male, descended from the sun; female, descended from the earth; and androgynous, with both male and female elements, descended from the moon. Each human being was completely round, with four arms and fours legs, two identical faces on opposite sides of a head with […]