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I maid de wite bred


17/01/2008

I maid de wite bred end it didn't wek out akording 2 de plan.
Must hav had sumtin 2 do wit de ingridients. I used hard red
Montana w'eat dat I did grind by hand insted of de fine wite
flour. De "sponge" did not enlarg as plann'd, nor
did it rise abov de bleck line de second tym 'round wen I

Bassam El Baroni, curator (Egypt)


bassam>> What does the idea of a manifesto mean to you?

Ntone Edjabe, journalist, respected DJ, founder and editor of Chimurenga Magazine

Ntone
1. What does the idea of a manifesto mean to you?

Action

2. What are some of the manifestos that you consider significant for
historical or personal reasons?

Four immediatly come to mind: Biko's "I write what I like"; Fanon's

"O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"; Sun Ra's "The

Keti Chukrov, philosopher (Berlin/Moscow)

KetiNomadic Theatre of a Communist
(manifesto)

Redas Dirzys, artist (Lithuania)

redas

Make Biennial Yourself - Manifesto

(Highly recommended to self-referential artists)

Saul Judd, artist and curator (Germany)

saulin my view, the first expression of a human manifesto we can observe is the screaming of an angry little child for not getting enough love, food or playtime. having said that, i can say that we are bound to live our lives based on inner manifestos, whether we want to or not. whether we manage to externalize this is another story entirely.

Judy Freya Sibayan, artist, editor Ctrl+P magazine (Manila)


THE GIFT OF PEER(S)

A Prayer Piece for the Survival of Art and Artists
in the Face of Culture under Constant Threat
of Disintegrating into MereCommodities

On the premise that money re-codes everything,
we pray that artists remain:
Artist most steadfast
(Response: For them we pray)

h.arta group (Romania)

harta


To-do list
(a manifesto in progress) by h.arta group


Alfian Sa’at, writer, poet, playwrite (Singapore)

Singapore You Are Not My Country
(For Noora)

Singapore you are not my country.
Singapore you are not a country at all.
You are surprising Singapore, statistics-starved Singapore, soulful Singapore of tourist
brochures in Japanese and hourglass kebayas.
You protest, but without picketing, without rioting, without Catherine Lim,

Senzeni Marasela, artist (South Africa)

senzen- What does the idea/concept of a manifesto mean to you?

It means that one selects a set of values and principle that will guide their aspirations and visions into the future.

- Is there a specific manifesto that you align to or that has interested/influenced you?