This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
[No, the title isn’t the obvious pun (hole for whole), although if you read it quickly another, less tangible pun may emerge. The post you are about to read is in fact a hole. And no, not ‘like a hole’, but a real hole, in and of itself. Before I begin, let me offer you […]
Taking public matters into your own stained cybergloves again? – suppose the bearded sage avatar braying (to the tune of REM’s Everybody Hurts (sometimes/So hold on, hold on), whom the social media managers of Agorapulse canceled. With what qualifications? Do tell us the answer, great Trump fluffer Joshy, share your insight, discharged, no doubt, as […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]
It is 1881. She somehow finds herself in London, visiting the British Museum. She is looking at the caryatid from the Erechtheion. As she wonders how much she is missing her sisters (she too is missing her sisters), in walks renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin, accompanied by a group of gentlemen from the museum. Rodin […]
A belated happy new year to all our Minus Plato readers! I have been busy putting together The Minus Plato Library as well as creating a series of teaching projects related to art and education after documenta 14 and I am now ready to share them with you all. Stretching across two courses (Art Education […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. The content of the d14 website is no more accessible to the public for legal reasons as of 2018. However, it is always possible to […]
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 […]