Manifesta without a manifesto? Artistic statements in times of political turbulence
Journal: Culture, theory and critique/Culture, theory & critique
Year: 2022

This paper seeks to explore the evolving form of art manifestos in the contemporary cultural economy by bringing perspectives of those cultural producers who cannot speak up in the conventional form of a manifesto. I examine this issue by using the case of European Biennial Manifesta 10, held in Saint Petersburg in 2014. As the organisers of Manifesta 10 confessed publicly, the political conditions for bringing Manifesta to Russia could not be worse. The recent approval of the anti-gay law and t