Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 13 Marseille was one of the only international biennials to take place during the global pandemic COVID-19, the biennial ended earlier than planned due to the second national lockdown
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Arseny Zhilyaev, IT/RU
Arseny Zhilyaev, The Keepers: One-dimensional Sphere Game, 2020 © Manifesta 13 / Jean Christophe Lett.
In this installation the Russian artist Arseny Zhiyaev created a scenario in which futurism an football were combined. A costume display “commemorated” a football tournament from the dystopia future of Marseille, with teams including police, local residents, activists and artists (groups often involved in conflicts). The artist composed four poems in Russian then translated them into Arabic, English and French, and incorporated them into the team’s uniforms.