Welcome to The Minus Plato Archive! This website documents the blog, platform and persona Minus Plato (2012-2022). You can choose to explore the archive through the headers above or if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, via the dropdown tab ‘Archive’ that lists all the posts by date. But before you get started, I am sure you are wondering: what was Minus Plato? I started the blog on May 4th, 2012, in the very first post called ‘Introducing ‘Minus Plato’, I described how ‘Minus Plato’ was the title of a 1966 essay by Brian O’Doherty that I read in Gregory Battock’s 1968 anthology Minima ..read more

I have spent so long over the last few months writing in another voice that I wanted to make sure as Minus Plato came to an end (the last post will be this Wednesday on May 4th) that I took a moment to reflect as myself – Richard Fletcher – on what these ten years writing the blog, creating the platform and embodying the persona of Minus Plato have meant to me. Today’s post will be mostly a stream of consciousness affair as I type these words without a clear idea or plan as to what I want to write (although the title above hints at some coherence to what I want to say). This has been the way o ..read more

On September 17th, 2017, the last day of documenta 14, I wrote a Minus Plato post called ‘Exit through the Trojan Horse’. Today’s post – one of a handful left before Minus Plato ends on May 4th, 2022 – borrows the same title as part of a collaboration with documenta 14 artist Daniel García Andújar as part of the exhibition The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall (organized by Verity Platt and David Nasca) that will run from May 5-30, 2022. Here is the wall-text that I wrote as my part of the collaboration, along with images of the works by Andújar and an altered version of the exhibition poster (w ..read more

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