Tag Archives: Sky Hopinka

Under a Tree with the Words that Matter Most

28th March 2022The Library of the FutureAA Bronson, Adrian Stimson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Heid E. Erdrich, Kim Hyesoon, Miriam Cahn, Paul Chan, Sky HopinkaMinus Plato

As Minus Plato careens towards its end, my librarian (who is and is not Mr. Minus), continues to gather books at my prompting. For today’s selection, it is all about words, words, words, all over everything. (You know the score). These books about words contain worlds (and wounds) and, within their pages, they almost seem […]

Storm the Blockades of An American City

10th January 2022The Library of the FutureAd Minoliti, Admin, Adult Kindergarten, Alex Jovanovich, Allan Sekula, Barbara Bloom, Cheng Ran, Court King, Cui Jie, Dale Goode, Eric Baudelaire, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Fred Moten, Front 2018, Front International, Front Triennial, GenderFail, Harrell Fletcher, Jan van der Ploeg, Jessica Vaughn, Juan Araujo, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, Kerry James Marshall, Kris Paulsen, Lane Relyea, Liu Shiyan, Lo Smith, Luisa Lambri, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Marlon de Azambuja, Mary Reid Kelley, Meghana Karnik, Michael Rakowitz, Michelle Grabner, Naeem Mohaiemen, Patrick Kelley, Sean Connelly, Sharbreon Plummer, Sky Hopinka, Stefano Harney, Stephen Willats, TITLE RBD, Visible Collective, Walter Price, William E. Jones, Yinka ShonibareMinus Plato

When he visited An American City, the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in September 2018, my librarian attended an evening reception for the launch of the second volume of the exhibition catalog at an event at the Cleveland Public Library amid Yinka Shonibare’s The American Library, a both dazzling and sobering installation […]

Around the Edge of Encircling Lake, curved against the hull of a peterhead: Echoing Vessels of Sky Hopinka & Taqralik Partridge

11th December 2021The Library of the FutureGreen Gallery Press, PS Guelph, Sky Hopinka, Taqralik PartridgeMinus Plato

You put this here – these artists, their books, and their titles next to each other – as a placeholder to return to. Can books be vessels for an intimacy to come? (the edge of this)

When I Think of Orange (Blue Resolve)

30th September 2021UncategorizedA Color Removed, Beech Bottom Mound, Front International, Michael Rakowitz, Orange Shirt Day, Sky Hopinka, Tamir Rice, Truth and Reconciliation DayMinus Plato

I appreciate that today of all days it may be hard to read the musings of a fictional ghost. Orange Shirt Day, otherwise known as Truth and Reconciliation Day, which this year has been elevated by the Canadian government from the level of an observed to a statutory holiday, is a day to educate and […]

Rubicon Cinema presents Mask-Faced Media

22nd February 2020UncategorizedAbbe Leigh Fletcher, Andreas Angelidakis, Cameron Granger, Caroline Monnet, Eva Stefani, Layla Muchnik-Benali, Mask-Faced Media, Nathan Pohio, Rheim Alkadhi, Ross Birrell, Rubicon Cinema, sair goet, Sky HopinkaMinus Plato

A Minus Plato Screening in collaboration with sair goetz and Layla Muchnik-Benali Mask-Faced Media is a film screening and reading created to introduce, accompany and expand Minus Plato a.k.a Richard Fletcher’s book No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life under Trump. The selection of short films explores the politics of representation and […]