THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION MANIFESTA AND MANIFESTA 6 INVITE YOU TO
THE BOOK LAUNCH OF:
Notes for an Art School IN BERLIN DURING THE OPENING OF THE 4TH BERLIN
BIENNIAL
On Saturday, March 25th 2006 from 6.30pm at Pro qm bookshop: Alte
Schöenhauser Strasse 48, D-10119 Berlin,
Tel: + 49 30.24728520, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Curators of Manifesta 6 Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and
Florian Waldvogel and the team of Manifesta 6 will be present.
Notes for an Art School, the first publication of Manifesta 6 School
Books, is an anthology of essays and interviews by artists, curators,
theorists and educators on the topic of art education. Contributors are
Mai Abu ElDahab, Babak Afrassiabi, Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Liam
Gillick, Boris Groys, Olaf Metzel, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Tobias
Rehberger, Walid Sadek, Nasrin Tabatabai, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle
and Florian Waldvogel.
The book lays the theoretical ground for Manifesta 6, the European
Biennial of Contemporary Art, for which the curators Mai Abu ElDahab,
Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel propose to challenge the
conventional format of the large-scale exhibition and, alternatively,
set up an art school - the Manifesta 6 School - in Nicosia, from 23
September to 17 December 2006.
In Notes for an Art School, the contributors rethink the goals and
structure of an art school, its ideological contexts, the positioning
of its students to the art world, its relationship to social and
political conditions, and the level of its discursive involvement,
drawing on specific examples and on their own experiences to
interrogate the appropriateness and validity of existing school models.
Notes for an Art School is designed and typeset by Dexter/Sinister,
Nicosia, and distributed internationally by IDEA Books:
www.ideabooks.nl. It can be ordered through www.manifesta6.org.cy and
www.manifesta.org. A digital version of the book’s essays can be found
on the Manifesta 6 website: www.manifesta6.org.cy. Please join in the
debate at the Manifesta 6 online forum on the topics of the book and
the Manifesta Coffee Break which took place in Nicosia during January
2006.
For more information, contact Mahita El Bacha Urieta at Manifesta 6:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tel: + 357 22 797 388 or Hedwig Fijen at the
International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tel: + 31 (0) 20 672 14 35
Notes for an Art School was made possible with the support of the
European Commission’s Culture 2000 Program, the European Cultural
Foundation, and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic
of Cyprus.
Manifesta 6 is organized by Nicosia for Art Ltd., member of the Nicosia
Municipality, and the International Foundation Manifesta.
Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art is initiated and
co-produced by the International Foundation Manifesta, based in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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