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Forget What Did:
Our documenta14 Afterlives

Pélagie Gbaguidi, Iris de Lucy, 2015 A workshop in three parts, Forget What Did: Our documenta14 Afterlives is a collaboration... Artikel ansehen

A workshop in three parts, Forget What Did: Our documenta14 Afterlives is a collaboration between writer Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato) and artist Pélagie Gbaguidi about the ongoing resonances of the 2017 exhibition documenta14. Their contribution is split in three parts, including a video reading performance by Fletcher, a live online conversation with Fletcher and Gbaguidi, and an online participatory performance with Gbaguidi and students from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Germany), the Athens School of Fine Arts (Greece), and the Ohio State University (USA).

Forget What Did takes its name from a poem by the British poet Philip Larkin. Both a profound and moving lyric poet and a miserable racist and misogynist, Larkin’s poem about stopping his diary (which he describes as “a stun to memory” and “a blank starting”) presents several key questions about daily life, art, care, violence, and memory in the wake of the controversial documenta14 exhibition, split between Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, in 2017. Squarely committed to de-colonial critique, alternative modernisms, feminism, Indigenous knowledge and post queer politics, Adam Szymczyk’s exhibition provoked strong reactions at the time and its ongoing legacy still reverberate around the art world amid the current global crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and White Supremacist authoritarianism and fascism.

Tuesday, 3 November 2020, at 16:00 Leipzig & Brussels / 17:00 Athens / 11:00 Ohio USA

Part I. A Blank Starting: Minus Plato’s Documenta 14 Video Diary

Part II. A Stun to Memory: Conversation with Pélagie Gbaguidi and Minus Plato

Part III. Praxis De-colonial: Online participatory performance with Pélagie Gbaguidi and Clara Guixer

Praxis De-colonial

Zurück Weiter Praxis De-colonial is an online participatory performance devoted to making change and creating organic/ecological matter together. We need... Artikel ansehen

Praxis De-colonial is an online participatory performance devoted to making change and creating organic/ecological matter together.

We need to crush our ideas to share the substance. The gesture of crushing comes from a wooden utensil that African women use to crush grain in a wooden receptacle: the mortar. This gesture requires an effort, it has a beautiful rhythm, often elegant. It is the preliminary to the ritual of the meal. It already prefigures the taste of food and the art of eating and sharing in certain cultures even today.

We invite you to share our ideas, our intellectual, sensitive, aesthetic and political acuity in the service of a gustatory praxis to accompany the de-colonial process that society, groups and the world need. Pélagie and Clara sing the reading of some articles of the “Code Noir” (ref. Louis Sala-Molins, Le Code Noir ou le calvaire de Canaan, 1987) in French, English and Spanish. During this time, it is proposed to the participants to peel onions which will later be used to make a soup.

This soup will have a flavor and a perception that will invite us to the journey of food through the body (collective) and the mind (the world of ideas) towards a process of transformation of materials for a reactivation of the collective conscious sense of change.

The recipe ingredients: 5 onions, 1 large tomato, 1 carrot, salt, pepper, vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons of fresh cream.

During the performance: Come with the onions and peel them during the reading. Take a round-tipped knife to cut off the tail of the onion, then continue peeling them by hand. The leaves of the onions look prettier when peeled by hand.

After the performance: To prepare the onion soup, take a medium saucepan and put 2 tablespoons of oil. As soon as the oil is hot, put the onions in and fry them for 10 min., then add the tomato cut into pieces and the carrot cut into pieces. Stir everything for 5 min. Then add 500 ml of water, cover and boil for 20 – 25 min. Put the soup in the blender, mix, and it’s ready to add the cream. Enjoy the tasting!

Pélagie Gbaguidi

Part of Forget What Did: Our documenta14 Afterlives. A workshop in three parts with Pélagie Gbaguidi and Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato)

Tuesday, 3 November 2020, at 16:00 Leipzig & Brussels / 17:00 Athens / 11:00 (Ohio, USA)

A Stun to Memory

Pélagie Gbaguidi, Naked Writing, 2015. Colour charchoal and pencil on paper 29 x 21 cm A Stun to Memory: Conversation... Artikel ansehen

A Stun to Memory: Conversation with Pélagie Gbaguidi and Minus Plato

Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato) and Pélagie Gbaguidi look back to 2017 and how their work and lives before, during and after documenta 14 engaged in a process of personal and political reckoning with on-going colonial and racist violence in the white-washing of ancient Mediterranean cultures by the academic discipline of Classics and the afterlives of slavery originating in the brutal Code Noir.

Gbaguidi and Fletcher discuss their current collaboration on a chapter from the forthcoming book project “Whisper into a Hole: Sketches for an Unfinished Exhibition” about the on-going legacies of documenta 14, specifically in terms of de-colonial art education. A literary/visual hybrid that stages an urgent dialogue between writer Minus Plato and selected documenta 14 artists, “Whisper into a Hole”’s experimental form counters the overt didacticism of the original exhibition’s working title “Learning from Athens.”

Part of Forget What Did: Our documenta14 Afterlives. A workshop in three parts with Pélagie Gbaguidi and Richard Fletcher (aka Minus Plato)

Tuesday, 3 November 2020, at 16:00 (Leipzig & Brussels) / 17:00 (Athens) / 11:00 (Ohio, USA)