Jeroen Marttin
The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author is an important text from structuralist and critic Roland Barthes, published for the first time in 1967. But more imporant the Death of the Author is a concept in art theory about the giving of meaning. Barthes argued that the viewer was the one who was important for the making of meaning. The author was the one who wrote the story down (or painted it on a canvas) and afterwards his job was done. He might have put his own meaning in it, but a viewer could still extract a totally different meaning. More »
Jimini Hignett
Official Invitation (scribble-down letters!) / Photo by Timothy Greathouse
Media-Savvy
Coined ‘The Royal Drag’ by the SOHO-news, Topo Grajeda & Jimini Hignett’s wedding performance planned to challenge Charles and Di’s monopoly of prime-time news on July 29th 1981, was a wonderful combination of art and media-savvy. Performing in New York in the early 80’s under the name ‘Christians from Outer Space’, Topo and Jimini topped their usual aim of having their name appear in the local listings each week – performing at off-off-Broadway locations on the Lower East Side and on the sidewalks midtown – with this cross-dressed version of the Royal knot-tying making onto the Channel-7 news. More »
Anna Hoetjes
Per.cep.tion
n.
1. The process, act, or faculty of perceiving.
2. The effect or product of perceiving.
3. Psychology
a. Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
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Patricia Sousa
Sois Belle Et Vote (‘Be Pretty and Vote’ ) was a sentence used for a political advertising campaign that took place in Lebanon in 2009 by the occasion of the parliamentary elections.
Together with this sentence the billboards showed an image of
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Julio Pastor
In 1983, the French newspaper Libération invited Sophie Calle to publish a series of 28 articles. Having recently found on the street the address book of a man called Pierre Baudry, Sophie Calle photocopied the content and afterwards
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Lauren Alexander
Nayruz Holdings
A fictitious holdings company, created by Jordanian artist, Oraib Toukan. The company proposes to auction off the Middle East in the year 2012,
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Eva Olthof
De Volkskrant, Wednesday 3th of February 2010
Port au Prince Haïti, 25th of January 2010, photo Tomas Bravo/Reuters
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Alfredo Cramerotti & Fay Nicolson
• Why use and explore media platforms as an artist or curator?
• What is the relationship between (mass) media and art in the past and present, and what are the possible future scenarios?
• Can media platforms renegotiate a relationship between art and the locality in a Biennale model?
Through operating as a roving biennial Manifesta must each time address and negotiate a different context with specific geographical, historical and political structures. In this way, Manifesta offers its curators the opportunity, and the challenge, to engage with local, global and networked communities using a variety of platforms and approaches.
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