[spectre] Manifesta Book Launch in Berlin 25th of March (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[HedwigFijen at manifesta.org]

THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION MANIFESTA AND MANIFESTA 6 INVITE YOU TO 
THE BOOK LAUNCH OF:
 
Notes for an Art School IN BERLIN DURING THE OPENING OF THE 4TH BERLIN 
BIENNIAL
 
On Saturday, March 25th 2006 from 6.30pm at Pro qm bookshop: Alte 
Schöenhauser Strasse 48, D-10119 Berlin,

Tel: + 49 30.24728520, Email: info at pro-qm.de
 
The Curators of Manifesta  6 Mai  Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and 
Florian Waldvogel and the team of Manifesta 6 will be present.
 
Notes for an Art School, the first publication of Manifesta  6 School 
Books, is an anthology of essays and interviews by artists, curators, 
theorists and educators on the topic of art education. Contributors are 
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.
 
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.
 
In Notes for an Art School, the contributors 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 is designed and typeset by Dexter/Sinister, 
Nicosia, and distributed internationally by IDEA Books: 
www.ideabooks.nl. It can be ordered through www.manifesta6.org.cy and 
www.manifesta.org. A digital version of the book’s essays can be found 
on the Manifesta 6 website: www.manifesta6.org.cy. Please join in the 
debate at the Manifesta 6 online forum on the topics of the book and 
the Manifesta Coffee Break which took place in Nicosia during January 
2006. 
 
For more information, contact Mahita El Bacha Urieta at Manifesta 6: 
mahita at manifesta6.org.cy - Tel: + 357 22 797 388 or Hedwig Fijen at the 
International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 
secretariat at manifesta.org - Tel: + 31 (0) 20 672 14 35
 
Notes for an Art School was made possible with the support of the 
European Commission’s Culture 2000 Program, the European Cultural 
Foundation, and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic  
of Cyprus.
 
Manifesta 6 is organized by Nicosia for Art Ltd., member of the Nicosia 
Municipality, and the International Foundation Manifesta.
Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art is initiated and 
co-produced by the International Foundation Manifesta, based in 
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.