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 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.
Guy Ben Ner, Surplus Leisure, 2014 © Manifesta 10 / xxx
Installation at Voronikhin Square Garden
During Manifesta 10 the Israeli artist Guy Ben Ner erected a cabin in Kazanskaya Street to house his installation. Exercise equipment from a nearby fitness studio generated electricity that powered the projection of a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger on bodybuilding and the free market economy. The idea was that the installation, drawing on Marx’s concept of surplus labour, behaved like a parasite, deriving power from other people’s “labour time.”