it makes me think of the speech that robert emmet gave from the gallows at the tender young age of 25 in 1803. not exactly a manifesto but he speaks repeatedly of "insistence upon the forms," knowing the law that had condemned him to death (his father being a lawyer) better than those who condemned him.
in this manner he was able to delay his own death for an important duration, the ellipsis of time there on the platform allowing him to speak through his own acumen, insisting upon the space to make his argument publicly, in the "public sphere"... just prior to dying... reminds me of W.E.B Dubois and those who undertook study of the forms in order to change them...
oddly, if you read Emmet's speech, one of the most moving i've ever heard, it is a manifesto of sorts i would argue... one that inscribes itself through its diligence as well as its ardor...
and his speech is the first i've heard to literally voice the "subaltern" as not "the other" necessarily but rather the knowing grain of dissent that exists within the prevailing heirarchy, or oustide of it, and will demand its place at the table...
Documentation of MANIFESTO!, an evening of readings of manifestos that was organized by PILOT at Bard College on April 13, 2009. The other two programs were pushed back to facilitate it, and the revised dates can be seen below.
To listen to an online stream of PILOT #1(b), click here.
Some 21st century strategies for the manifesto, including an interview with the artist Liam Gillick about his Berlin Statement made at the Hamburger Bahnhof on February 12th 2009; a chat with scholar McKenzie Wark author of A Hacker Manifesto; and a meeting with David Reinfurt of O-R-G and Dexter Sinister that, among other things, parses some emerging language in contemporary art production.
To listen to online stream of PILOT #3, click here.
PILOT begins with the manifesto, a political and aesthetic form that helped define the 20th century, and asks where is this ‘manifesto’ now? Can it be said to have dissolved into a ‘distributed attitude’? And, if it can, how might this attitude present itself as the art world slides into recession towards the end of the first decade of the 21st Century?
PILOT is a project by Bartholomew Ryan, taken in completion of an MA thesis at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. It streams live from WXBC Bard College Radio, a free-form student radio station in Upstate New York.
Manifesto winner at an event in the LES in the late Seventies early Eighties, first prize an old car:
ReplyDeleteSTAND UP FOR THE ART WORLD
BEFORE THE ART WORLD
SITS DOWN ON YOU!
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ReplyDeletenice reading of the diggers bart!
ReplyDeleteit makes me think of the speech that robert emmet gave from the gallows at the tender young age of 25 in 1803. not exactly a manifesto but he speaks repeatedly of "insistence upon the forms," knowing the law that had condemned him to death (his father being a lawyer) better than those who condemned him.
in this manner he was able to delay his own death for an important duration, the ellipsis of time there on the platform allowing him to speak through his own acumen, insisting upon the space to make his argument publicly, in the "public sphere"... just prior to dying... reminds me of W.E.B Dubois and those who undertook study of the forms in order to change them...
oddly, if you read Emmet's speech, one of the most moving i've ever heard, it is a manifesto of sorts i would argue... one that inscribes itself through its diligence as well as its ardor...
and his speech is the first i've heard to literally voice the "subaltern" as not "the other" necessarily but rather the knowing grain of dissent that exists within the prevailing heirarchy, or oustide of it, and will demand its place at the table...
best, f