A bit of self-irony…
Picture by Rian Lozano (thanks Rian!)
CPS Chamber of Public Secrets – Diary
Published on Kunstbeeld / Art Magazine, The Netherlands, Issue October 2010.
Thanks to Daphne Pappers, Research & Publications, Amsterdam.
(Dutch)
Manifesta 8 presentation in Berlin and new Manifesta Journal “Collective Curating”
Friday June 11, 2010, 10 a.m.
Clärchens Ballhaus, Auguststraße 24, Berlin-Mitte
Meet the curators of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and Hedwig Fijen, Director of the Manifesta Foundation.
The editorial team of the Manifesta Journal will be delighted to launch the new issue of the Manifesta Journal “Collective Curating”, published by the Manifesta Foundation and Silvana Editoriale.
Manifesta Coffee Break 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:
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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