Part I RAINER GANAHL: Christine, I’m leaving for Istanbul in a couple of hours but keep asking me questions … CHRISTINE MARTIN: Because this issue is about capitalism, I would like to focus primarily on your DADALENIN work (2007), as shown at the Moscow Biennale in 2007, where you also held reading seminars with Lenin texts. Specifically, I would like…
Month: June 2015
Biography, Memory, and Metaphor in Octavia’s Portico
Biography, Memory, and Metaphor in Octavia’s Portico. Artwork in the Porticus Octaviae celebrated feminine ideals by evoking Octavia as a contemporary representative. But more than the art inside, features of the building added by Octavia, specifically the libraries, represented acts of maternal duty expected of the Roman matron at the death of a family member. Dedicated to the memory of…