[Reader-list] Manifesta 6, Department 3: Abschlussball

[Jean-Baptiste Naudy]

Manifesta 6, Department 3: Abschlussball
WestGermany | SkalitzerStr. 133 | Berlin
May 28 – May 31, 2007 – Internal contract deliberations.

Opening: Abschlussball June 1, 2007 | 20:00

Network communications as well as the First Draft Contract available at:
http://www.abschlussball.net/

Manifesta 6, Department 3: Abschlussball is a collaborative initiative from
21 of the selected students from Dept III of the "failed" Manifesta 6
school-as-biennale project.  We use the term "failed" purposefully in
quotations. The mishap of the project has transformed it unforeseeable
directions – becoming the first purely textual biennial. Since the inception
of the project until now it has manifest itself exclusively through a
collection of texts (applications, press articles, curatorial statements,
legal documents, publications, emails, etc). This transformation has
re-positioned the intentions, but has unwillingly produced the most
trans-disciplinary biennial of its' kind, involving, but not excluded to the
juridical, political, diplomatic, intellectual, media, economic and
aesthetic spheres.

>From this perspective the "still-born" network of Dept III participants, is
seeking to reanimate itself into a "zombie network" as a collective,
productive machine. The collaborative efforts are focused on a co-authored
"confetti contract" – a text built in intervals between all participants of
fragments, statements, digressions, interactions, re-writings, definitions
and discords that take place amongst such a large group. Participants are
working remotely, yet will convene for four days of contract deliberations
face to face, at which time a final 1-day contract will be signed. On June
1st the contract signing will be celebrated with an "abschlussball" (end of
school-year celebration).

The collective contract negotiation will initially focus on the following
issues: the distinctions between "symbiotic / parasitic projects" vs
"tumorous structures"; the ergonomics of a zombie network; the carnival as
collaborative form and contracts of discord.  From these points several
digressions will take place through the interventions of group members, and
subsequently interventions upon interventions.  The exponential nature of
this multi-authored project mobilizes the abundance and multiplicity
inherent to our estranged network towards a collective (albeit non-consensus
forming) production – all the while constructing a temporary, agora-esque
infrastructure for "play" as a dynamic group.

The network has been exhumed. You are cordially invited to this ball on June
1st.

Manifesta 6, Department 3: Abschlussball,
a project initiated and edited by Societe Realiste and Pia Fuchs (dt. ID v.
Patricia Reed),
with Robin Bhattacharya, Chicks on Speed, Samuel Dowd, Pia Fuchs (dt. ID v.
Patricia Reed), Gaia Fugazza, Gabriele Gaspari, Ingela Johansson, Ralph
Kistler, Lyn Lowenstein, Susannah Mira, Petros Moris, Can Sarvan, Alexander
Schikowski, Anthony Schrag, Societe Realiste, Craig Smith, Jens Strandberg
et Inga Zimprich.

Contact:
m6.abschlussball at gmail.com
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