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Diabolical Dispersion, or, How to Get Ahead in the Arts* Richard Fletcher - Minus Plato fletcher.161@osu.edu – minusplato@gmail.com 03/29/18, Barnett Center, Ohio State University All works by Richard Fletcher or Minus Plato unless otherwise noted Seth Price Dispersion, 2002
Seth Price Dispersion, 2002- (http://www.distributedhistory.com/Disperzone.html) John Kelsey ‘Steh Pirce’, in Seth Price: Social Synthetic (2017)
How to Get a Head
Bruce Robinson (director) How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) – film Seth Price The World (2014) – print
From Dispersion to ‘Mythmaking’
‘Ass Meat Actaeon (Myth Mythology)’ – lecture delivered at Liquid Antiquity Workshop, Princeton University, 01/16 ‘Mythmaking’ – essay in Liquid Antiquity (2016), Benaki Museum, Athens. 222-225. ‘Echo is Golden’ – lecture delivered at Liquid Antiquity: A New Fold, Princeton Athens Center, Athens, 09/17
Demonology as Translation: Apuleius of Madauros
Apuleius’ Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy (2014) Cambridge University Press.
Dispersion as Practice: the novel from Apuleius to Seth Price
‘“A is for ‘Orses” (Not for Asses): Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and the Contemporary Artist Novel’ 5th International Conference of the Ancient Novel, Houston, Texas, 09/15.
Dispersed Model for Arts Education?
Andrea Phillips ‘Education Aesthetics’ in Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson (eds) Curating and the Educational Turn (2010) 85-90.
Demonic Translation for Art Enterprise?
Andrea Phillips How to work together, 2014 - http://howtoworktogether.org/think-tank/andreaphillips-how-to-work-together/
Our A-Z of Dispersed Arts Education and Enterprise at the Research University
Seth Price and Barry Feldman (2017) The Road to Recognition: The A-to-Z Guide to Personal Branding for Accelerating Your Professional Success in The Age of Digital Media Minus Plato: the Classical in Contemporary Art – blog (2012-) http://minusplato.com/
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Authenticity as persona
The Minus Plato Manifesto – produced for and read at the opening of the exhibition The Manifesto Library, at the Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH, curated by Blake Turner, 12/16-01/17
Blog offline
Our Book to Come (this week, last year) – a series of six interactive lectures at CCAD’s Beeler Gallery as part of the exhibition How Well Do You Behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD, 02/18-03/18
Content curating
Perictione & Sons: A Minus Plato Office Hours Exhibition – an installation in my campus office (UH 328) comprising work by OSU students and performance, 08/17-12/17
Design for good
If the Good is to be Good it must be Good everywhere – picnic at the site of Plato’s Academy, Athens, Greece, in collaboration with Victoria Square Project, 04/18.
Email as syllabus
Semina Seminar - weekly lunchtime seminar on the topic of Handbooks and Guides, for artists and classicists, 01/17-04/17
Followers in movement
A Toss, for Theater Piece No. 1 – a performance created to connect the exhibitions Leap Before You Look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Wexner Center for the Arts and Blueprints for a Past Future, 11/16.
Google’s inner law
‘Spontaneously Resurrecting Flesh’ – essay in William E. Jones: Flesh and the Cosmos. David Kordansky Gallery. 11-16.
Helping as framework
‘Imagination Dead Imagine: Diogenes Laërtius’ Work of Mourning’ – essay in Fletcher, R. & J. Hanink (eds.) Creative Lives: New Approaches to Ancient Intellectual Biography. 219-240.
Influencers to students
Chan, P., R. Fletcher & K. Marta. 2015. Hippias Minor or The Art of Cunning. Badlands Unlimited and DESTE Foundation.
Joining the campus
Frederic Tuten at Ohio State – a talk, conversation, film-screening and open-house around the visit of author Frederic Tuten in the English Dept., Wexner Center for the Arts and University Libraries.
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Keywords for dialogue
Oh Mother Reader, I Can Feel - multi-media installation based on class projects with OSU students, shown as part of the exhibition Labors: An Exhibition Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State Mansfield Campus, 02/18-03/18
LinkedIn alternatives
Myths of the Academy – exhibition, symposium and class project - Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, 04/16
Media/Medea/Medya
No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump – book project based on year of daily posts on Minus Plato (11/16-11/17), to be published by AC Institute in Fall 2018.
Network for fiction
The Cave of Light: A Dark Symposium, Wexner Center for the Arts - a public programming collaborative performance based on the work (and including the participation of) artists Josiah McElheny and Pablo Helguera, 04/13
Offers as seeds
Donald Lokuta: Plato’s Cave-Segal’s Studio – exhibition at Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, 08/1309/13
Podcast for memory
A Classicist’s Encounter with Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Iliam – podcast for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 04/12 ‘Three Lessons from Twombly’s Academy – essay in C. Basualdo (ed.) Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam. Yale University Press. Forthcoming 2018.
Questions from the dead
‘Are We a Dialogue?’ - gallery Talk during exhibition Leap Before You Look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Wexner Center for the Arts, 11/16.
Recognizing Others’ futures
‘Visions of our Elders: Anchises’ Roman Empire versus Postcommodity’s Future Majority’ – performance on Oval, in class, and blogpost 10/17.
Speaking as Echo
‘Echo is Golden’ – intervention at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany, in collaboration with performers and participants of Mattin’s Social Dissonance, 09/17
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Target as group
‘Our Ancient Group Material’ – series of coordinated blog posts as part of the panel Democritising Classics, St. Andrews University, Scotland 07/18.
Unique is obsolete
Is the Classical Body Obsolete? – tour and dialogue at Wexner Todd Oldham exhibition as part of Medical Humanities Conference, 04/18
Video record
‘The Epic Among US: Changes of the Guard from Gilgamesh to Kamasi Washington’ – video and blogpost, 11/17
Website interventions
Catullus 47, or The New Adventures of Poros and Penia – translation written for Badlands Unlimited’s Search & Tell project on their website, 01/17
eXamine institutions
Alarm Clock Academy: A Minus Plato Project about Time and Awakening – a coordinated questionnaire project in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts, 02/18-04/18
The ‘You Do” List for communities
Come Along With Me – exhibition and related projects Riffe Gallery/Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio, 01-04/17
Zeal beyond the Cheese Pavilion
Polly Proff – a performance as Billy Bragg impersonator, dates to be confirmed
* This handout was written in a provisional and exploratory spirit. Spirit.