To Declare a New World
The Brooklyn RailThe Brooklyn Rail invited me to serve as its guest critic in March 2021. To interrogate idealism, belief and the relationship between art, language and politics, I commissioned a section on art manifestos. The aim was to get at the heart of what it means to declare a new world by exploring a complicated genre full of grand ambitions and aesthetic posturing.
The section’s contributors included Sarah Cowan︎︎︎, Emmanuel Iduma︎︎︎, Kaitlyn A. Kramer︎︎︎, Pac Pobric︎︎︎, José Peña-Loyola, Amelia Rina︎︎︎, Noah Dillon︎︎︎ and Christopher Alessandrini—several of whom also participated in a panel discussion︎︎︎ as part of the paper’s New Social Environment series. Julia Schäfer︎︎︎ designed the print edition, excerpted below, which riffs on the visual language of manifestos.
︎ Print edition (PDF)︎︎︎
︎ Web edition︎︎︎
The section’s contributors included Sarah Cowan︎︎︎, Emmanuel Iduma︎︎︎, Kaitlyn A. Kramer︎︎︎, Pac Pobric︎︎︎, José Peña-Loyola, Amelia Rina︎︎︎, Noah Dillon︎︎︎ and Christopher Alessandrini—several of whom also participated in a panel discussion︎︎︎ as part of the paper’s New Social Environment series. Julia Schäfer︎︎︎ designed the print edition, excerpted below, which riffs on the visual language of manifestos.
︎ Print edition (PDF)︎︎︎
︎ Web edition︎︎︎
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