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1. As I explained in last week’s post, it is not possible to continue the project Freedom Park Fridays since the videos of the events of 34 Exercises of Freedom (in Athens, September 14-24, 2016) on which the project is based, have been taken down from the documenta 14 website. 2. I sent an email […]
Another Friday rolls around and here you are expecting your weekly soothing (well, maybe not soothing, but at least refreshingly different!) experience back in September 2016 (before the storm) in Athens at The Parliament of Bodies public program of documenta 14. Sadly I have to report that today I made the disturbing discovery that the […]
I know it is Friday and you have been waiting for some respite from Trump’s atrocious beat all week, but before you can rest you must take a journey, you must follow Diana Taylor to Villa Grimaldi in Chile, a torture center for the Pinochet regime. I know this is not what you want to […]
This Friday, I only have one exercise for you to do, over and over again, when the opportunity presents itself: vote, vote for your life. A warning tale of when authoritarian regimes get a hold of its citizens and intrumentalize them to do their dirty work comes from the 1981 film Your Neighbor’s Son: The […]
Another Friday, after another tough week, this time culminating with the threatened violence of domestic terrorism, carried out, if not by, at least in the name of the Trump administration. While you may not feel up to watching a lecture about torture by historian Kostis Kornetis amid such traumatic conditions, you can at least turn […]
Happy Friday all – what a long, tiring week! I don’t have the energy to do justice to the lecture by Judith Revel that kicked off the second evening of 34 Exercises of Freedom (September 15, 2016) and the topic of DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS… INTO NEOLIBERALISM. Revel, a French philosopher and expert on the thought of […]
For today’s session of Freedom Park Fridays, we will be doing a collective workout following the directions of Peruvian artist Sergio Zevallos and his performance Educación cívica/Civic Education. You will need to find yourself a partner and a large room. Now, take a deep breath and get ready for the workout. 1. Stand at the […]
I’m not going to even ask you how your week was as I know its been rough, traumatic even. But here we are again, at its end and here again is your date with a time-machine to take you away from it all and back to Athens in September 2016 and the 34 Exercises of […]
Hello again – another working week is done and here we are for your dose of restorative freedom from documenta 14. Today you can sit back and listen to philosopher Antonio Negri speak to you in French about ideas of struggle, freedom and enlightenment (from the supermarket to Trump). Don’t worry if you can’t understand […]