Bienale Finale

23rd March 2022The Library of the FutureAfterall, Anthony Gardner, Berlin Biennale, Brook Andrew, Front Triennial, Sydney Biennale, Toronto Biennial, Venice Biennale, Whitney BiennialMinus Plato

TAKE THE PRESSURE OF THE MACHINE OF THE BIENALE’S [SIC] AND GIVE OVER TO A DIFFERENT PROCESS. TOO MUCH INSTITIONALISATION. STOP. ALLOW THE DIFFERENCE. BE CONFUSED. IT’S HEALTHY. – Brook Andrew and Anthony Gardner ‘NIRIN WURRUNMARRA’ in ‘Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public’ (Afterall, 2021), pp. 68-79. Sydney March 12 to […]

Escaping Hades: Deana Lawson’s “Portal”, 2017 at the Whitney Biennial

30th April 2017Deana Lawson, Hades, Henry Taylor, Hercules, Minus Plato Today, Uncategorized, Whitney BiennialDeana Lawson, Hades, Henry Taylor, Hercules, Whitney BiennialMinus Plato

Every since visiting the Whitney Biennial last week I have made several attempts to write a Minus Plato post about my experience. After several false starts, I kept coming back to one work: Portal, 2017 by Deana Lawson. It is not that at the time of my visit this large photograph of a ripped leather […]