To Declare a New World
The Brooklyn RailIn March 2021 The Brooklyn Rail invited me to serve as its guest critic, as which I commissioned a special section on art manifestos. Its aim was to get at the heart of what it means to declare a new world by interogatting a messy genre full of grand ambitions and lofty idealism, claims toward aesthetic purity and a complicated interplay of art, language and politics.
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
