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 6 was cancelled by the President of the Greek Part of Cyprus
Emese Benczúr, HU
Emese Benczur, Should I live to be a hundred, 1998. Photo © Manifesta 1 / Roman Mensing.
This textile installation by Hungarian artist Emese Benczur consisted of over a hundred manufactured cloth labels that have inscribed the sentence “Day by day”. The artist embroidered the sentence "I think about the future" on a label each day, intending to repeat this compulsive gesture for a hundred years.