Manifesta: Notes for an Art School
Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel
Booklaunch of the first publication of Manifesta 6 School Books with Manifesta 6 Curators Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel.
Notes for an Art School is an anthology of essays and interviews by international artists, curators, theorists and educators on the topic of art education. The book was published and commissioned by the International Foundation Manifesta in Amsterdam and Manifesta 6 in Nicosia.
The book lays the theoretical ground for Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, for which the curators Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel propose to challenge the conventional format of the large-scale exhibition and, alternatively, set up an art school - the Manifesta 6 School - in Nicosia, from 23 September to 17 December 2006. The contributors to the book rethink the goals and structure of an art school, its ideological contexts, the positioning of its students to the art world, its relationship to social and political conditions, and the level of its discursive involvement, drawing on specific examples and on their own experiences to interrogate the appropriateness and validity of existing school models.
Notes for an Art School (Manifesta 6), with contributions by Mai Abu ElDahab, Babak Afrassiabi, Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Olaf Metzel, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Tobias Rehberger, Walid Sadek, Nasrin Tabatabai, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel. Design and typeset by Dexter/Sinister, Nicosia. ISBN 9963920802, 96 pages, vergriffen / out of print