Tag Archives: Rome

Myths for Mutual Pedagogy 3: Trails

24th October 2017Minus Plato Today, Myths for Mutual PedagogyAlexandria, Ancient sites, Anna Halprin, Athens, Istanbul, Myths for Mutual Pedagogy, Rome, Study Abroad, TopographyMinus Plato

You are leading a Study Abroad program to a significant ancient city (e.g. Athens, Rome, Alexandria) and one morning, midway through the trip, you usher your students onto a small platform at one end of the room where you have breakfast in the hotel where you are all staying. In the room are chairs arranged […]

There is no Rome: Looking for Utopia in Trisha Donnelly’s “Letter to Tacitus”

25th April 2017Minus Plato Today, Rome, Tacitus, Trisha Donnelly, utopiaminus plato today, Rome, Trisha Donnelly, utopiaMinus Plato

At the 54th Carnegie International in 2004, in addition to four other works, Trisha Donnelly created a performance called Letter to Tacitus. According to descriptions of the performance I have read online, Donnelly selected an elderly male museum guard to read a letter that she had written, imagined to have been to the Roman historian Cornelius […]