Tag Archives: Postcommodity

Kassel Documenta Diary Day 1: Bread and Readers at the Neue Galerie

26th July 2017documenta 14, Documenta Diary Kassel, dOCUMENTA(13), Minus Plato Today, , , , ,

Five years ago, in the rotunda of the Fridericianum, where I sat with the other participants in The Parliament of Bodies for last night’s talk by Georges Didi-Huberman, there stood what artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev called ‘the brain’ of dOCUMENTA (13). A few posts ago I mentioned this area as encountered by Enrique Vila-Matas in […]

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Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia: O is for Otobiography

19th July 2017Alpha to and Omega of Our Athens Nostalgia, documenta 14, Minus Plato Today, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How much time did you spend in Athens with your face up against a window, peering into a closed building, trying to get a glimpse of a work of art or at least the space in which it was made? Did this happen to you at Archimidous 15 and Nikhil Chopra’s Drawing a Line through […]

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