Roomade and the International Foundation Manifesta are pleased to
announce the publication The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary
Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post- Wall Europe. This mutual
publication is a result of a three years collaboration between Roomade
and The International Foundation and includes essays, critical debates
and a view of the historical material from the Manifesta archives, the
public accessible archives at Manifesta at Home in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
Editors Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic focused on the
mechanisms of contemporary art biennials and international exhibitions
at a moment when contemporary art biennials in Europe and the world
continue to proliferate and few critical studies examining their
mechanisms exist. The Manifesta Decade takes Manifesta, the first
itinerant European biennial for contemporary art, as a case study but
also explores the broader, post-wall landscape from which it emerged.
The varied contributions to the anthology treat the effects of
communism’s collapse on Eastern Europe, the role of international
perennial exhibitions in the context of globalization, the complex
definitions of “Europe,” and the history of exhibitions attempting to
address these shifts. The result is a complex picture of Europe and
its exhibition paradigms at the end of the twentieth and the beginning
of the twenty-first centuries.
The International Foundation Manifesta will organize in the run of
2006 a series of Book launches not only in the former Manifesta Host
Cities but also on different international locations such as:
Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Ljubljana, Frankfurt and San Sebastian. Please
check the Manifesta website (www.manifesta.org) for more concrete
data.
The Manifesta Network program, an initiative of the International
Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam, has commissioned this publication.
The Manifesta Network Program is a multi-faceted resource and research
program, encompassing the Manifesta Biennial exhibition, the Manifesta
Journal, the Manifesta Coffee Breaks, and the Manifesta publications.
The European Commission’s Culture 2000 program amongst others is
funding the Manifesta Contemporary Art Network.
Roomade in Brussels acts as the publisher of this book and The MIT
Press is in charge of the distribution, so if your local bookshops,
libraries, or institutions have inquiries, you can direct them to:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262220768 or Barbara Vanderlinden at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the meantime, we would like to make arrangements for getting your
copy of the book to you. Please send a current address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will have it sent to you shortly.
Yours,
Hedwig Fijen
Director Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
Barbara Vanderlinden,
Director Roomade, Brussels
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