[spectre] (fwd) The launch of THE MANIFESTA JOURNAL READER

Tue Oct 21 10:55:31 CEST 2014

THE MANIFESTA JOURNAL READER
launch in St. Petersburg on October 24, 2014

19:00 - 21:00 at Smolny Institute, the Department of Liberal Arts and 
Sciences,
(Address: 58-60 Galernaya, Room 223, the Cinema Hall)

The Manifesta Journal Reader is a book that compiles twenty-eight 
articles selected from the previous seventeen issues of the Manifesta 
Journal, one of the first international, professional publications on 
contemporary curatorship. Initiated by the Manifesta Foundation, 
Amsterdam, this extraordinary publication has been translated into 
Russian and published as a collaboration between the Faculty of Liberal 
Arts and Sciences (Smolny College), St. Petersburg State University, 
Manifesta Foundation and Calvert 22 Foundation.

The Manifesta Journal Reader is the result of a dialogue between the 
Publications and Education departments of Manifesta, the Curatorial and 
Critical Writing MA of the St. Petersburg State University and Calvert 
22 Foundation who together discussed the possible opportunities provided 
by MANIFESTA 10 taking place in St. Petersburg. These fruitful and 
inspiring discussions led to a reflection about the legacy of MANIFESTA 
10, the need to leave a permanent trace and the role that Smolny 
College, St. Petersburg plays in shaping the future generations of 
curators and writers.
The Manifesta Journal Reader represents an important step in Calvert 
22’s mission to use cross-cultural communication to broaden theoretical 
awareness and to strengthen practical skills in the arts in Russia and 
Eastern Europe.

The collection of texts, based on the practices and theories of 
contemporary curating, is edited by Viktor Misiano, co-founder of the 
Manifesta Journal with Igor Zabel, and former Manifesta Journal Chief 
Editor, critic, and curator, in collaboration with Nataša 
Petrešin-Bachelez, current Manifesta Journal Chief Editor and the 
support of Virginie Bobin, former Associated Editor.

The Manifesta Journal Reader will provide a solid theoretical body of 
articles to reconsider the meanings and the effects of curatorial 
practices today focusing in the first part on the theoretical 
foundations of curating and formulating a grammar and manual of 
contemporary curatorship in order to move, in the second part, on to 
urgent (geo)political, humanistic, instigating and controversial 
potentialities.

The selection of the articles reflects the evolution of the professional 
figure of the curator and curating since 2003, when the Manifesta 
Journal was founded by the Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, with the 
subtitle “Journal of Contemporary Curatorship” to nowadays where the 
focus has shifted to “Around Curatorial Practices”.

It is envisioned that The Manifesta Journal Reader will function as a 
comprehensive textbook for future Russian curators, comprised of a 
wide-reaching sequence of both theoretical and pragmatic articles on 
contemporary artistic and curatorial practices written by outstanding 
international curators and intellectuals, including Russian thinkers 
such as Viktor Mazin and Viktor Misiano but also international thinkers 
like Mary Anne Staniszewski, Rasha Salti, Cuauhtemoc Medina, John 
Akomfrah or Fatima El-Tayed.
The publication was initiated by the Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam 
(Esther Regueira, Sepake Angiama and Lisa Mazza) in collaboration with 
the FLAS Master of Arts Program in Curatorial Studies (Olesya Turkina 
and Natalia Alyoshina), St. Petersburg State University and the Calvert 
22 Foundation.

The launch will be in Russian and English with simultaneous translation. 
The co-editor Viktor Misiano will give a brief introduction to The 
Manifesta Journal Reader during the launch.

Spaces are limited so if you wish to attend the launch, please email 
your name to anastasia.a at calvert22.org
with the subject 'RSVP The Manifesta Journal Reader Launch.'

The Manifesta Journal Reader will be distributed in Russia by Arca 
Publishers (www.arcapublishers.ru (http://www.arcapublishers.ru/) ) and 
will be available for purchase online at www.calvert22.org 
(http://calvert22.org/)

For further information please get in touch with
Manifesta Foundation
Herengracht 474
1017 CA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 (0) 20 672 1435 (office)

secreteriat at manifesta.org 
(mailto:secreteriat at manifesta.org?subject=The%20Manifesta%20Journal%20Reader)
www.manifesta.org (http://manifesta.org/)
www.manifesta10.org (http://manifesta10.org/en/home/)

International Foundation Manifesta
Herengracht 474
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland 1017CA
Netherlands