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Abounaddara, The Syrian Patient – Part One
R. Shareah Taleghani (2021) Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. Syracuse University Press, p. 178-179.
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Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like – Episode 4
In this fourth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of religious coexistence in the visual culture of democracy, K.G. Subramanyan’s 2013 mural War of the...
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Exercise Freedom Ohio September 14
On this day, September 14, 10 years ago in Parko Eleftherias (‘Freedom Park’), Athens, Greece, months before the exhibition’s opening in April 2017, the documenta 14 public program Parliament of...
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Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like – Episode 3
In this third episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on representations of freedom of expression in the visual culture of democracy, Edi Hila’s 1972 painting Planting of Trees...
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Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like – Episode 2
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created...
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Abounaddara, The Day of Judgment
Abounaddara has agreed to share this film with documenta 14; it is one of over 300 films produced on a weekly basis by an anonymous collective of Syrian filmmakers. By sharing these films on our...
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Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like – Episode 1
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created...
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Abounaddara, The Murderer Returning to the Scene of the Crime
I just read today’s Facebook post by Abounaddara – the anonymous Syrian film collective who participated in documenta 14 in 2017 and whose weekly films from 10 years ago I have been posting each...
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Abounaddara, And Yet It Moves
The many disparate short videos produced by Abounaddara often call to mind the postulates of Dziga Vertov for what he called ‘Kino-Eye’ and ‘Kino-Pravda’ (Michelson 1984, pp. 14-21). The observational...
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The Contemporary Art of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
I have already seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey twice and I enjoyed the experience both times, including talking about it afterwards, both for its merits as a film (especially its timely...
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Abounaddara, The State of Things
After a break this Summer, I am catching up on my Friday Abounaddara video posting, 10 years after they were originally posted on the Syrian film collective’s website and the documenta 14 website in...
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Such Despotism (final draft, 4th of July, 2026)
This post documents the action Such Despotism (Final Version, 4th of July, 2026) by minus plato? on July 4th, 2026, outside the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. Such Despotism is a project...
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Such Despotism (Third Draft, Late-June, 2026)
[Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated] is a large set of piano variations composed in 1976 for the pianist Ursula Oppens. Rzewski is well known for his virtuosity and for his...
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