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.
fabrics interseason, AT
fabrics interseason: Wally Salner & Johannes Schweiger, dominant design: go tell the spartans, thou who passest by…, 2008 © Manifesta 7 / Wolfgang Träger.
Mixed media installation exhibited at Stazione Ferroviaria in Rovereto
This installation by Austrian collective _fabrics interseason featured a canopy of semi-transparent fabrics hanging from bamboo structures suggesting an alternative model to ethnic exoticism and the lure of the global, and a stage-like platform with an asphalt surface, recalling the aesthetics of the post-industrial.