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.
Schools Project
read moreFormal education is an important social institute, that forms our society, its values, social behaviour, and cultural norms. In each Manifesta edition we investigate …
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Manifesta 14 Prishtina: Uncover your Story: a manual to local culture
As the pre-biennial Urban Vision of CRA showed, Prishtina is often perceived as a spatially fragmented city with little to no social contact between the neighbourhoods.Education and Community spaces
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Manifesta 14 Prishtina: OAZA
In 2021, the Municipality of Prishtina decided that the abandoned former Hivzi Sulejmani library would be rehabilitated to become one of Manifesta 14’s headquarters under the name of the Centre for Narrative Practice.Publication
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Manifesta 14 Prishtina: Mapping Subculture Movements
To understand Prishtina’s pre-existing cultural ecosystem, especially outside of that which is supported and endorsed by institutions, Manifesta 14’s Education and Mediation Department in collaboration with the community centre Termokiss, initiated a research project which attempted to map and trace …
Invisible archives
The Education and Mediation programme of Manifesta derives from the research of existent knowledges and practices of civic initiatives and various city’s ecosystems.
The urban development of Marseille bred fragmentation, consequently generating diverse subcultures, and self-organised initiatives, that the urbanistic project itself paradoxically often excluded.
The histories of these initiatives provided us with a genealogy, that is alternative and challenging to the city’s “mainstream” discourses. It helped understanding current societal and urban dynamics and conflicts of the city.
Archive#7. No Past = No Future exhibition by V. Jourdain and Hugues Jourdain in collaboration with “Mémoire des sexualités” association.
Invisible Archives is a sequence of eight exhibitions and public programmes which explored genealogies and non-institutional memories of civil initiatives, histories of resilience and community synergies originated and located in particular areas of Marseille. The project took place in 2019 – 2020 as part of Tiers Programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille.
Proposed by the Education team of Manifesta 13, Tiers Programme (Third Programme) is a mediation initiative between the curatorial programme and the citizens of Marseille. One of its projects, Invisible Archives, used the framework of the biennial to introduce a third perspective in order to nourish discussions on the building of symbolic and imaginary representations of the city and the actions that create its multiple realities.
Archive#6 B.Vice Sound Musical School: Performance of Eva Doumbia.
Selected archives were used as starting points for artistic reflection, in the form of a dialogue, claiming the recognition of these extraordinary examples of citizen initiatives as a common heritage which is often invisible and ignored by institutions. A sequence of eight exhibitions and public programmes took place over a year 2019 - 2020 at the headquarters of Tiers Programme – Tiers QG, a former snack adjoining student lodgings in Belsunce neighbourhood.