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PODCAST FEED: PILOT # 1 Manifesto History and Theory

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PILOT #2: 

History and theory of the manifesto form with Bartholomew and modernism scholar Janet Lyon author of Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern. 

PILOT is made up of three two-hour radio programs thinking about 21st century strategies for the manifesto. Broadcasting from WXBC Bard College Radio in April and May 2009. 

Artist Projects: 'Appearances" by Alejandro Cesarco & Judi Werthein, and "The Parallel Chorus" by Benjamin Tiven. Live sound composition by artist Kenji Garland. 

Unedited audio of live program.

Please comment on this program at welcometopilot@gmail.com, or here.

Curated by Bartholomew Ryan.

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Janet Lyon, Alejandro Cesarco, Judi Werthein, Benjamin Tiven, Kenji Garland, Wendy Vogel, Fionn Meade, Bartholomew Ryan, Karl Marx, Gerrard Winstanley, Christabel Pankhurst, Wyndham Lewis, Joe Hill, The Diggers, F.T. Marrinetti, Robin Morgan, Joyce Stevens, Paul Robeson, Sinead O'Conner, Black Power, May 68, French Revolution, Olympe de Gouges, The Redstockings, Jurgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe, Wittgenstein, Affect, The Levellers, the Suffragettes, Paul Robeson.

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First (crisis) Epiphany Manifesto as JPEG

Communist Manifesto

They really got this one wrong...

Long Island City, New York, April 18, 2009

Sound composed of two tracks by Kenji Garland, Tape Cuts and Glow Snakes.

All Writing Is Pigshit

Antonin Artaud text, All Writing is Pigshit, read by Katerina Llanes at the MANIFESTO! event at Bard College on April 13th, 2009. Enjoy.

Bourriaud on the Altermodern

Nicolas Bourriaud interview from a few weeks back. He is the author of Relational Aesthetics, Postproduction, and the new book from Sternberg Press, The Radicant.

MANIFESTO!

Pictured: Christina Linden, Wendy Vogel & Adam Pendleton, and Katerina Llanes.

MANIFESTO!, April 13, 2009, Weiss Cinema, Bard College.

Manifesto readings by CCS Bard students, Bard undergraduates, and members of the Bard community. A recording of the event will play in the restrooms of the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College for the duration of the Spring Exhibitions, Series 2 (April 19-24th). An intimate reformatting of the restroom context, Manifestos-In- the-Restrooms is a satellite show to PILOT.

The 'List':

Gerrard Winstanley, The Diggers Song (1650), read by Fionn Meade; Mina Loy, Feminist Manifesto (1914), read by Sofia Pia Belenky; Wyndham Lewis, BLAST (1914), read by Diana Stevenson; Theo van Doesburg and Others, Manifesto I of De Stijl (1918), read by Niko Vicario; Sergei Eisenstein's Montage of Attractions (1923), read by Sam Stonefield; F.T. Marinetti, Xenomanes (1931), read by Michael Nickerson; Gustave Metzger, Manifesto Auto-Destructivist Art (1960), read by Niko Vicario;  Antonin Artaud,  All Writing Is Pigshit (anthologized 1965), read by Katerina Llanes;  Robin Morgan's RAT takeover, Goodbye to All That, (1970) and The Black Panther Party Platform, (October, 1966), read by Adam Pendleton and Wendy Vogel; Joyce Stevens, “Because” (1975), read by Kate Menconeri; Guerilla Art Action Group, (Jon Hendricks, Jean Toche), The Definitive/ist Manifesto, (1981), read by Christina Linden; Hardt and Negri's The Political Manifesto (1990's), read by Sohrab Mohebbi; ACT UP!' member John Russo's Why We Fight, (1988), read by Bartholomew Ryan; Alexei Shulgin's Art Power and Communication, (1996), read by Hajnalka Somogyi; Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, The Stuckists, read by Diana Stevenson; Susie Ramsay and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's OK Art Manifesto, read by Jessica Wilcox; premiere of PILOT's First(Crisis)Epiphany Manifesto read by Bartholomew Ryan. 

The manifesto selection was tough. Out were the greatest hits –The Futurist Manifesto (1909), The Communist Manifesto (1848), and others. The idea was not to create a comprehensive rendition of the manifesto-cannon, but to allow different texts to exist in conversation that alluded to aspects of the overall manifesto-context in an interesting way. This list could be replaced with 30 other lists equally valid and interesting, though, of course, necessarily differant  in the effect of their affect and political/aesthetic prescriptions. If there are any questions about the selections, or the reasons for the selections –not all of which were an endorsement of the given position proposed– email welcometopilot@gmail.org. We did not have time to get to all the texts, some of which will be a part of PILOT, so this does not seem so bad. Where I decided to cut one, I have linked to another version of the manifesto online. Audio from the event will be updated periodically.

 

 

 

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