txt: Manifesta 7 – Frieze Magazine
When Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was first instituted in 1993, it was in the spirit of cultural exchange, globalization and European integration that followed the end of the Cold War. In being an itinerant entity, Manifesta had a double remit: first, to present a picture of a pan-European cultural field; and second, to reflect specifically on the often troubled border zones in which the biennial was sited.
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The slightly uncertain focus of this year’s Manifesta reflects perhaps as much biennial fatigue as this more widespread move away from such key biennial assumptions. Indeed, spread out across four sites (in three cities and one abandoned fortress) in the affluent Italian region of Trentino–South Tyrol, the four shows that comprised Manifesta all faltered – and, interestingly, in different ways – in responding to the notion of the continent at large, or even the specific history of the locale.These considerations aside, however, Manifesta brought together some very good work.
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