Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like – Episode 11

4th November 2026A Curriculum of Imposters, Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like14 New Exercises of Freedom, 14 New Exercises of Freedom Ohio, 34 Exercises of Freedom, David Harding, Exercise Freedom Ohio, Ross Birrell, Stathis GourgourisMinus Plato

This eleventh episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like was created the day after the US Midterm elections as part of Scottish artist Ross Birrell’s visit to Ohio to accompany his banner ‘democracy to come’ and its installation in the Sullivant Hall rotunda at Ohio State University for the month of November. The episode […]

Human Animal Mask: Pierre Huyghe’s Fable between Documentas

7th June 2017Bilbao, docuementa 14, documenta, dOCUMENTA(13), Enrique Vila-Matas, fables, Minus Plato On Location, Minus Plato Today, Pierre Huyghe, Stathis Gourgourisdocumenta 14, dOCUMENTA(13), Enrique Vila-Matas, fables, Odyssey, Pierre Huyghe, Stathis GourgourisMinus Plato

Yesterday at the Guggenheim Bilbao I saw Pierre Huyghe’s remarkable 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask). It stars the monkey Fuku-chan (who came to fame in a YouTube video that depicts her working as a waitress north of Toyko) dressed in a mask and wig waiting impatiently in an abandoned restaurant. Set and filmed in 2011, […]