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Manifesta 8, la Bienal europea de arte contemporáneo comienza el 9 de octubre de 2010.

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Manifesta 8, la Bienal europea de arte contemporáneo, tendrá lugar en la Región de Murcia (España) en diálogo con el norte de África, desde el 9 de octubre de 2010 hasta el 9 de enero de 2011.

Inauguración para prensa y profesionales: 7 y 8 de octubre.
Inauguración oficial: 9 de octubre.
http://www.manifesta8.es / http://www.manifesta.org

Durante 100 días, Manifesta 8 tendrá lugar en las ciudades de Murcia y Cartagena en edificios históricos, museos, espacios no convencionales y varios canales de medios de comunicación. Manifesta 8 está dirigido por tres colectivos curatoriales independientes, cada uno de los cuales desarrollará un proyecto propio como contribución curatorial. Los colectivos son ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum), CPS (Chamber of Public Secrets) y tranzit.org .

ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, se plantea una pregunta: ¿Cómo puede cualquier proyecto artístico tocar auténticamente la sofisticada y azarosa maraña de la complejidad de la vida? Como respuesta proponen OVERSCORE (Tachadura), un proyecto polifacético que mantiene su coherencia por la lógica de una interfaz creada especialmente para ello y llamada The Theory of Applied Enigmatics (La teoría de la enigmática aplicada).

Comisario: Bassam El Baroni / Comisario asociado: Jeremy Beaudry / Asistente de comisariado: Yolanda Riquelme García.

Artistas: The Action Mill / Gonzalo Ballester / Lene Berg / Michael Paul Britto / Pablo Bronstein / Ergin Çavuşoğlu / Common Culture / Céline Condorelli / Willie Doherty / Juan Downey / Sherif El-Azma / Alfonso Escudero / Simon Fujiwara / Ryan Gander / Melanie Gilligan / Nav Haq / Ann Veronica Janssens / Jeleton / Mahmoud Khaled / Hassan Khan / Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler / Suhail Malik / nOffice / Ana Martínez / Rosell Meseguer / Metahaven / Nástio Mosquito / Charles Mudede / Kenny Muhammad & Adam Carrigan / Lorraine O’Grady / Olivia Plender / Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz / Jasper Rigole / Red 76 / Alexandre Singh / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak / Take to the Sea / Mariusz Tarkawian.

CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets. A través del uso crítico de la producción de medios de comunicación, realización de documentales, investigación artística y periodismo estético, el proyecto curatorial de CPS, ¿THE REST IS HISTORY? (¿El resto es historia?, ocupa y se cuestiona las estructuras que definen la realidad hoy en día, así como de su historia.

Equipo curatorial: Khaled Ramadan & Alfredo Cramerotti / Asistente de comisariado: Rian Lozano de la Pola.

Artistas: AGM / Mounira Al Solh / Abed Anouti / Eşref Armağan / The ARTS ASSEMBLY / Michael Baers / Ghassan Ben Jeddou / Brumaria / Filipa César / Danilo Correale / Anders Eiebakke / Aida Eltorie (con Fateen Abdel Wahab, Dalia Neis, Sergio Leone, Bassem Yousri, Naiza Khan, Pauline M’Barek, Jan Ijäs, Aissa H. Deebi, Ghamkin Saleh, Madeline Djerejian, Yto Barrada) / Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia / Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel / Laurent Grasso / Khaled Hafez / Ralf Homann / Erlea Maneros Zabala / n.e.w.s.: Renée Ridgway & Rick van Amersfoort / Ángel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere  / Fay Nicolson (en colaboración con Rasheed Araeen, Mark Ashurst, Katerina Gregos, John M. Kennedy , Huda Smitshuijzen, Alex Vesudevan) / Nada Prlja / Ariel Reichman / María Ruido / David Rych / Nikolaus Schletterer / Michael Takeo Magruder / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Wooloo (en colaboración con Gema Alava, Helidon Gjergji, Pedro Guirao, Clarinda Mac Low, Matthias Neumann) / Raed Yassin.

tranzit.org . Si preguntamos sobre las convenciones de la exposición colectiva, CONSTITUTION FOR TEMPORARY DISPLAY (Constitución para una exposición temporal) de tranzit.org es el resultado de un pensamiento colectivo sobre el potencial para un espacio auto constituido, modelado por las condiciones estéticas, sociales y políticas; un espacio donde artistas y comisarios abren su trabajo a la reflexión, imaginación y reelaboración.

Equipo curatorial: Vít Havránek, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička, Georg Schöllhammer / Asistente de comisariado: Anna Pahissa Deulofeu.

Artistas: Basma Alsharif / Babi Badalov / Neïl Beloufa / Erick Beltrán / Igor & Ivan Buharov / Banu Cennetoğlu & Shiri Zinn / Boris Charmatz / Loulou Cherinet / Heman Chong / Kajsa Dahlberg / Cristina David / Stephan Dillemuth / Carla Filipe / Pedro G. Romero-Archivo F.X. / Alexandra Galkina / Karl Holmqvist / Sung Hwan Kim / Adela Jušić / Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc & Sarah Maldoror / Darius Mikšys / The Otolith Group / Bouchra Ouizguen / Emily Roysdon / Ruti Sela / Catarina Simão / Tomáš Vaněk / Martin Vongrej / Tris Vonna-Michell / Tanja Widmann.

Educación: Manifesta 8 presta especial atención a las actividades educativas. Se ha creado un programa especial de mediación en arte para investigar y reflexionar junto con nuestros visitantes sobre las obras y los conceptos que se presentan en Manifesta 8. Durante las horas de apertura se realizaran visitas guiadas en español, inglés, árabe, francés, alemán e italiano, al igual que un abanico de proyectos especiales, material educativo y actividades para escuelas y estudiantes de arte. http://www.manifesta8.es/medular .

Simposio: El domingo 10 de Octubre de 10:00 a 14:00, tendrá lugar el simposio Dando respuestas antes de conocer las preguntas: cuatro posiciones sobre la idea de una bienal pan – africana itinerante en el Centro Párraga de Murcia.

Para más información sobre el programa de inauguración:

Página web: http://www.manifesta8.es / http://www.manifesta.org
Teléfono: +34 868 950 750
Email: contact@manifesta8.es / accreditation@manifesta8.es

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English

Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, takes place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with northern Africa, from October 9, 2010 until January 9, 2011.

Preview days: October 7 and 8 in Murcia and Cartagena

Official opening day: October 9 in Murcia and Cartagena

www.manifesta8.es / www.manifesta.org

Running for a period of 100 days, Manifesta 8 will be taking place in the cities of Murcia and Cartagena in historical buildings, museums, unconventional spaces and several media channels. Manifesta 8 is curated by three independent curatorial collectives, each of them developing a project as an autonomous curatorial contribution. The collectives are ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets and tranzit.org.

ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, raise the question ‘How can any art project genuinely touch on the sophisticated and haphazard web of life’s complexity?’ In response, they propose OVERSCORE, a multifaceted project held together by the logic of a specially devised, theoretical interface called The Theory of Applied Enigmatics.

Curator: Bassam El Baroni / Associate Curator: Jeremy Beaudry / Curatorial assistant: Yolanda Riquelme García

Artists: The Action Mill / Gonzalo Ballester / Lene Berg / Michael Paul Britto / Pablo Bronstein / Ergin Çavuşoğlu / Common Culture / Céline Condorelli / Willie Doherty / Juan Downey / Sherif El Azma / Alfonso Escudero / Simon Fujiwara / Ryan Gander / Melanie Gilligan / Nav Haq / Ann Veronica Janssens / Jeleton / Mahmoud Khaled / Hassan Khan / Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler / Suhail Malik / nOffice / Ana Martínez / Rosell Meseguer / Metahaven / Nástio Mosquito / Charles Mudede / Kenny Muhammad & Adam Carrigan / Lorraine O’Grady / Olivia Plender / Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz / Jasper Rigole / Red76 / Alexandre Singh / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak / Take to the Sea / Mariusz Tarkawian.

CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets. Through the critical use of media production, documentary-making, artistic research and aesthetic journalism, CPS’s curatorial project ¿THE REST IS HISTORY? occupies and questions the structures that define reality today, as well as its history.

Curators: Khaled Ramadan & Alfredo Cramerotti / Curatorial assistant: Rian Lozano de la Pola

Artists: AGM / Mounira Al Solh / Abed Anouti / Eşref Armağan / The ARTS ASSEMBLY / Michael Baers / Ghassan Ben Jeddou / Brumaria / Filipa César / Danilo Correale / Anders Eiebakke / Aida Eltorie (featuring films by Fateen Abdel Wahab, Dalia Neis, Sergio Leone, Bassem Yousri, Naiza Khan, Pauline M’Barek, Jan Ijäs, Aissa H. Deebi, Ghamkin Saleh, Madeline Djerejian, Yto Barrada) / Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia / Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel / Laurent Grasso / Khaled Hafez / Ralf Homann / Erlea Maneros Zabala / n.e.w.s.: Renée Ridgway & Rick van Amersfoort / Ángel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere / Fay Nicolson (in collaboration with Rasheed Araeen, Mark Ashurst, Katerina Gregos, John M. Kennedy , Huda Smitshuijzen, Alex Vesudevan) / Nada Prlja / Ariel Reichman / María Ruido / David Rych / Nikolaus Schletterer / Michael Takeo Magruder / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Wooloo (in collaboration with Gema Alava, Helidon Gjergji, Pedro Guirao, Clarinda Mac Low, Matthias Neumann) / Raed Yassin.

Tranzit.org. Querying conventions of the “group show”, tranzit.org‘s CONSTITUTION FOR TEMPORARY DISPLAY is the result of a collective thinking about the potential for a self-constituting space, shaped by aesthetic, social and political conditions; a space where artists and curators open up their work to reflection, imagination and re-elaboration.

Curatorial team: Vít Havránek, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička, Georg Schöllhammer / Curatorial assistant: Anna Pahissa Deulofeu

Artists: Basma Alsharif / Babi Badalov / Neïl Beloufa / Erick Beltrán / Igor & Ivan Buharov / Banu Cennetoğlu & Shiri Zinn / Boris Charmatz / Loulou Cherinet / Heman Chong / Kajsa Dahlberg / Cristina David / Stephan Dillemuth / Carla Filipe / Pedro G. Romero-Archivo F.X. / Alexandra Galkina / Karl Holmqvist / Sung Hwan Kim / Adela Jušić / Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc & Sarah Maldoror / Darius Mikšys / The Otolith Group / Bouchra Ouizguen / Emily Roysdon / Ruti Sela / Catarina Simão / Tomáš Vaněk / Martin Vongrej / Tris Vonna-Michell / Tanja Widmann.
Education: In Manifesta 8, particular attention is dedicated to educational activities. An art mediation program has been set up to research and reflect together with the visitors on the artworks and concepts presented at Manifesta 8. Guided tours in Spanish, English, Arabic, French, German and Italian are available during opening hours, as well as a range of special projects, education material and activities for school classes and art students. www.manifesta8.es/medular.

Symposium: On Sunday 10th of October, from 10.00 to 14.00, the symposium Bringing you the answers before we know the question: four positions regarding the idea of a pan-African roaming biennial will take place in the Centro Parraga, Murcia.

For more information on the preview/opening program:

Website: www.manifesta8.es / www.manifesta.org

Phone: +34 868 950 750

Email: contact@manifesta8.es / accreditation@manifesta8.es

Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 20, 2010
September 3, 2010
Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, will take place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with northern Africa, from October 9, 2010 until January 9, 2011.

Preview days: October 7 and 8
Official opening day: October 9
Symposium: October 10

www.manifesta8.es
www.manifesta.org

In the framework of Manifesta 8, a trio of independent projects is being initiated by the three curatorial collectives responsible for the artistic content of Manifesta 8, in order to further investigate the potential for establishing a closer dialogue with northern Africa.

Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum (Egypt) has already initiated a series of discussions aiming to research the potential for the creation of a new pan-African roaming biennial, tranzit.org (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) will develop an in-depth publication to examine the various links, narratives and discrepancies between Post-colonial and Post-communist communities, while Chamber of Public Secrets (Scandinavian Countries, Italy, Lebanon and U.K.) will set up a collaboration with the popular Arab language talk-show Heewar Maftouh (Open Dialogue), broadcast on the Al Jazeera network.

Bringing you the answers before we know the question: four positions regarding the idea of a pan-African roaming biennial
Symposium, October 10, 2010, Murcia (Spain)
Confirmed speakers : N’gone Fall, Senam Okudzeto, Thembinkosi Goniwe and Christine Eyene.
The Incubator for a Pan-African Roaming Biennial is a year-long task-force consisting of Gabi Ngcobo from the Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR) in Johannesburg, Mia Jankowicz from the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) in Cairo, Jimmy Ogonga from the Center for Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA) in Nairobi and Khadija El Bennaoui from Art Moves Africa (AMA). The Incubator has been set-up in response to a proposal by Bassam El Baroni and Jeremy Beaudry of Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF), as an extension to the political issues raised by OVERSCORE, their curatorial contribution to Manifesta 8, and the intellectual territory it covers.

The project aims to facilitate the articulation of critical positions regarding the notion of a pan-African, roaming art biennial. The Incubator will avoid assumptions or simple assessments of what a biennial looks like, what is its context, what effect it has, and whether it can even be done. The Incubator will identify and bring together perspectives from curators, artists, cultural producers and active sponsors, whose current activities reveal the desire to find room for autonomy and progressive experimentation within their respective contexts. Articulating this research should bring together a set of historically and politically informed viewpoints, while paying attention to infrastructure and pragmatic issues. These will happen through several means: the symposium taking place during the opening of Manifesta 8; a website; a workshop which will take place in an African city in April 2011; the appointment of key voices as planners; the production of a publication in September 2011. The Incubator and its platforms should register these positions as an (uneven) landscape upon which others may imagine a new biennial, a roaming biennial, an alternative structure or a model responding to a different set of priorities entirely.
More information about the Incubator will soon be found on: www.panafricannial.org

Post-colonial / Post-communist Reader
Given the motto of Manifesta 8 in its dialogue with northern Africa, tranzit.org immediately recalled the Eastern European experience of the transformation of societies after the decline of socialism and the different projections which the idea of communism had created for so many movements of liberation and self-determination. This became the starting point for their contribution to Manifesta 8 – a point that was not a dialogue, but a conflict of transfers of imaginations. tranzit’s multi-venue exhibition will focus on the transfer between theory – as an imaginative and symbolic operation – and practice, in this case the making of an exhibition.

For their project, tranzit.org decided to establish a critical counter-check and revision of the so-called post-colonial, the de-colonised and the post-communist conditions of transformation. This will be the subject of a Reader published by the Manifesta Foundation in collaboration with tranzit.org and Erste Stiftung after the closure of Manifesta 8. The aim of the book is to facilitate the transfer of critique, research and thinking between specific notions and concepts of post-colonial thought, and to provide post-communist and transformational inquiries. One of the major challenges of the publication is to establish an exchange of some of those imaginary utopias, disappeared since the end of the Cold War.

¿The Rest is History?
Flashback on contemporary history

Chamber of Public Secrets’ (Alfredo Cramerotti and Khaled Ramadan) choice to work intensely with the media, as both a constructive and divisive agent, addresses the concept that reality is not a fact to be understood, but rather an effect to be produced. In keeping with this engagement, CPS is collaborating with Ghassan Ben Jeddou, a prominent journalist and host of the talk show Hiwar Maftouh (Open Dialogue), regularly broadcast on the Arabic Al Jazeera network.

Over the past 10 years, through its perceptive programming, this international news network has taken an intensive role in recording and re-writing Arab history. Accordingly, during Manifesta 8, Ben Jeddou will produce two broadcasts focusing on some of those narratives shared between Spain, northern Africa and the Arab world. These will address the complex nature of this transnational dialogue which, despite giving birth to a project of great potential for multiple perspectives, also reveals itself as negotiating history in parallel terms of honour and denial.

For more information:
Website: www.manifesta8.es / www.manifesta8.es
Phone: +34 868 950 750
Email: contact@manifesta8.es / accreditation@manifesta8.es

Manifesta 8 – In Dialogue with Northern Africa VAGA Tour 6-8 October 2010

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 20, 2010

VAGA Visual Arts and Galleries Association Newsletter

13 August 2010
Manifesta 8 takes place in the Spanish cities of Murcia and Cartagena. It is being curated by Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and Tranzit.org and explores the idea of Europe in the 21st century, focussing on the
boundaries of the continent and engaging with Europe’s present-day frontiers and its interrelation with the Maghreb region. The South of Spain, specifically Al-Andalus, has been a historical blend of Islamic, Judaic and Christian cultural influences co-existing together.
Wednesday 6th October 2010
MURCIA
6.00pm
Introductory Talk with Alfredo Cramerotti, Co-Curator of Manifesta 8, part of the
Chamber of Public Secrets curatorial collective and Curator at QUAD in Derby.
Media Lounge Espacio Molinos del Rio-Caballerizas C/Molinos 1

MANIFESTA 8 | Collective Curating: Means in Common at Art Basel 41

Posted in nEws and rEleases, shortEssays/cortiSaggi [English/Italian] by Curatorview on September 19, 2010

ART BASEL 41 | Art Salon Program
Friday June 18, 2010

Participants:
Alfredo Cramerotti, Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), Denmark, Italy, Lebanon, Member of the M8 Curatorial Collective
Esther Regueira, General Coordinator, Manifesta 8, Murcia
Georg Schöllhammer, Member of the collective tranzit.org, Central Europe.

MANIFESTA 8 | DESAYUNO DE PRENSA Madrid

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on September 8, 2010

09 DE SEPTIEMBRE 10,45H

Restaurante Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS)

Acceso por la Plaza Del Museo


Hedwig Fijen directora de la Fundacion Manifiesta, Esther Regueira Coordinadora general de Manifesta 8  y  representantes de los  equipos curatoriales Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Bassam el Baroni) y Chamber of Public Secrets Forum (Alfredo Cramerotti) presentarán en Madrid los avances de la preparación de Manifesta 8.

Se entregará dossier de prensa con información general, descripción detallada de proyecto, listado de artistas e imágenes para publicar.

Una de las innovaciones de esta edición es la introducción de un equipo curatorial compuesto por tres colectivos – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (Egipto), Chamber of Public Secrets (Escandinavia y el Medio Oriente) y tranzit.org (Europa Central) – responsables tanto del enfoque temático como de la selección de artistas. Como la muestra dinámica que es, Manifesta 8 se sitúa en una intersección, en un lugar en el que los tres colectivos curatoriales ofrecerán respuestas a los desafíos planteados por las nociones del diálogo transregional y transcontinental a través de diversos formatos. http://www.manifesta8.com

Presentation of Manifesta 8 in Rome / Alfredo Cramerotti’s interview

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on May 29, 2010

29 May 2010

Interview to Alfredo Cramerotti, co-curator Manifesta 8, in occasion of the presentation of the biennial in Rome

At the historic Belle Époque cafe, Bar della Pace in Via Santa Maria della Pace, one-minute walk from Piazza Navona, from 11.00am to 12.30pm

The event will see the participation of Hedwig Fijen (Director Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam), Alfredo Cramerotti (curator M8, from the curatorial group Chamber of Public Secrets, Copenhagen), Lisa Mazza (Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam), Esther Regueira (the new general co-coordinator of M8 in Murcia) and Jonathan Turner (M8 editor, Rome).

The presentation will take place in concurrence with the art fair Roma – The Road to Contemporary Art, and with the press launch and official opening of the new MAXXI – Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, designed by Zaha Hadid.

IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto: Alfredo Cramerotti on Chamber of Public Secrets

Posted in nEws and rEleases, shortEssays/cortiSaggi [English/Italian] by Curatorview on March 29, 2010

29 Mar 2010
CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, Co-curated by Khaled Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti

Chamber of Public Secrets works as a network of artists, curators and thinkers who have been collaborating since 2004 on the organization, production and circulation of film and video festivals, exhibitions, TV and radio programs, political fictions and documentaries.  CPS members have also established forums for debate and published books and articles on issues like media representation, migration, mobility, colonialism, gender and difference.  CPS helps to debate the position of artistic and media narratives and the function and responsibility of both in relation to society.

The CPS Archive was established in Copenhagen 2007 as an independent, non-profit art project focusing on the latest developments in visual art culture. The archive collects, preserves, and provides photographs, video films and documentaries about a variety of issues, thereby exploring, exposing and exemplifying the way contemporary art interacts with society through the use of new media.

The archive functions as an information and research centre and is open to the public. It consists of an electronic image, video and film database, which forms the basis for exhibitions, debates, symposiums, artist presentations, performances and screenings. The CPS Archive is open for cooperation with individuals and institutions that share the interest in exploring, examining and informing the contemporary artistic usage of visual elements – with the aim of enhancing communication between people of different societies.

For this screening, Alfredo Cramerotti will be presenting recent works from the archive by artists including Mounira Al Solh, Dalia Alkoury and Raed Yaseen that will serve as an introduction to a curatorial project he and Khaled Ramadan have worked on for Manifesta 8 called The Rest Is History?

Through operating as a roving Biennial, Manifesta must each time address and negotiate a different context with specific geographical, historical, aesthetical and political structures.  In this way, its curators are offered the opportunity, and the challenge, to engage with local, global and networked communities using a variety of platforms and methodologies.

In the vision of CPS, Manifesta 8 is a series of ‘transmissions’ that critically use artistic, relational and media(ted) strategies to explore ideas of what Spain / Europe is today and focus on its boundaries and relationship with Northern Africa, encouraging viewers to ask questions.

CPS’s approach to curating encompasses (mass) media platforms such as television, internet, radio and newspapers, alongside other exhibition formats. Broadcast airtime, online streaming, printed matter, human relations and physical venues are all ‘channels’ in which we present different types of constructions. These media(ted) channels are an extremely interesting place to situate a series of projects for Manifesta 8. By challenging artists and contributors to explore new terrains beyond their usual practice, we question what is the media’s relationship to the construction of a local reality, how does it relate to ideas of truth, fact and history, and what are its possibilities for engaging with new audiences? And why do we need to expand the existing boundaries of art by introducing the notion of media?”

Khaled Ramadan is an artist and curator currently based in Helsinki. His fields of specialty include the culture and history of broadcast aesthetics, with interests in the fields of aesthetic journalism and documentary film research. He has produced several documentary films, theoretical texts and books on broadcast aesthetics, journalism and documentary filmmaking.  Ramadan also has extensive experience curating video exhibitions and film festivals. He is the founder of the MidEast Cut festival, the Made in Video festival, the Coding-Decoding documentary festival, the video festival Not on Satellite, and the Video File.  He is member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, IKT and is currently co-curator of Manifesta 8.

Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and artist. His work explores the relationship between reality and representation across a variety of media. He is co-curator of the forthcoming Manifesta 8, a European biennial of contemporary art in Murcia and Cartagena, Spain, and curator of QUAD, an art, film and media centre in Derby, UK. He co-runs the collective art and media projects Annual General Meeting and Chamber of Public Secrets. Recent publications include Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009).

Manifesta 8 on TELEPRENSA.ES

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on February 19, 2010

Manifesta Coffee Break 2009

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on December 12, 2009

Manifesta Coffee Break is a recurring public meeting, serving as an active tool to discuss the concept of Manifesta within a larger critical context. The fifth Coffee Break takes place on 12 and 13 December 2009 in Murcia, Spain, in preparation for Manifesta 8, and in direct relation to the context of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in 2010. Titled Towards Manifesta 8, this Manifesta Coffee Break brings together both local and international artists, curators, theorists, writers and other art professionals to reflect on Manifesta’s logic in direct relation to Murcia-Cartagena and its links with northern Africa. It is open for all who are interested, and consists of sessions by the three curatorial teams of Manifesta 8 together with invited speakers and guests.

Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS)
“Unfaithful Relations: Art, Engagement and Audience within the Biennial Model”
December 12, 10.00-13.30

with contributions by: Sara Black, Alfredo Cramerotti, Christine Eyene, Rian Lozano, Fay Nicolson and Khaled Ramadan

Through presentations and work groups at the Manifesta Coffee Break, CPS will start a dialogue about the role and involvement of the audience in the region of Murcia: visitors, artists, students and media presence. How can the local art scene, cultural producers and activists make a sustainable use of a biennial, in terms of time, space and continuity? What possibilities are there for audience development? And how to avoid or respond to the common skepticism of the local (art) scene towards a biennial which can be viewed as welcome/unwelcome or invited/invasive? The presentations by Sara Black (Great Britain) and Christine Eyene (France/Cameroon) do not attempt to answer these questions, but discuss potential approaches towards audience inclusion.

Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
“The Aesthetic Compass: Human Geography and its Reverberations in Art”
December 12, 16.00-19.30
with contributions by: Jeremy Beaudry, Sherif El Azma, Bassam El Baroni, Nida Ghouse and Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

tranzit.org
“Post-Communist as well as Post-Colonial”
December 13, 10.00-13.30

with contributions by: Zbyněk Baladrán, Erick Beltrán, Vít Havránek, Dóra Hegyi, Richard Kostelanetz, Boris
Ondreička and Georg Schöllhammer

For a video excerpt of MCB:

http://www.manifesta8.blip.tv/