Empty Daybook – Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor on 12,000 BCE

2nd September 2019UncategorizedEmpty Daybook, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-TaylorMinus Plato

The Neolithic Revolution in the Levant and Mesopotamia marked the first domestication of plants, animals, and humans. With our sedentarization, we opened ourselves up to cultures being diminished ecologically, nutritionally, and spiritually, and to the construction of hierarchical, centralized, socialpolitical regimes and their inherent inhibition of liberties. Occasionally romanticized by anthropologists as “the original affluent […]

Three Athenians in Kassel, Episode Six: Blood of My Blood

4th August 2017documenta 14, Greek comedy, Minus Plato Today, Three Athenians in KasselAristophanes, documenta 14, Greek comedy, Kassel, Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-TaylorMinus Plato

What I weigh out tragedy, like butcher’s meat? – Xanthias in Aristophanes’ Frogs It started like any other night for our three Athenians in Kassel, but it would end in tragedy. Sitting in their cozy house, Nina and the documenta 14 official were doing some ’embodying’ research after finishing off their report, while Bia with […]