Giorgio Agamben, “What Is the Contemporary?” in What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays, trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2009), 53.
Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life,” in The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, 2nd ed., trans. and ed. Johnathan Mayne (London: Phaidon Press, 1995), 13.
Göran Therborn, From Marxism to Post-Marxism? (London: Verso, 2008), 129.
Taking place on October 18 and 19, 2008, “Manifesto Marathon: Manifestos for the 21st Century” was the third in the Serpentine Gallery’s series of marathon events, and addressed the question of how to develop manifestos at a time when fewer artists work in formal groups and there are significantly fewer artistic movements than in the past century. Hans Ulrich Obrist invented the interview marathon concept in Stuttgart in 2005 as an experimental kind of public event that bridges panel discussion, exhibition, and performance. In 2006 the concept evolved as Rem Koolhaas joined Obrist in interviewing over seventy people in a twenty-four hour marathon that took place in the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion, co-designed by Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond. The pavilion was one of an ongoing series of annual architecture commissions conceived by Serpentine director Julia Peyton-Jones. The 2006 marathon was followed by the Experiment Marathon with Olafur Eliasson in 2007, the 2008 Manifesto Marathon, and, last but not least, the Poetry Marathon in 2009. In December 2009 Obrist and Koolhaas engaged the rapidly growing city of Shenzhen with “Shenzhen Marathon: The Chinese Thinking.”
Zak Kyes at “Manifesto Marathon,” October 18, 2008.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century (New York: The New Press, 1998).
Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Ibid., 6.
Eric Hobsbawm, at “Manifesto Marathon,” October 19, 2008.
Ibid.
Tino Sehgal, at “Manifesto Marathon,” October 19, 2008.
Tom McCarthy, at “Manifesto Marathon,” October 18, 2008.
See Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (New York: Dover, 1998 [1911]).
See Fred Kaplan, 1959: The Year Everything Changed (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009).
See Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, vol. 2, trans. Siân Reynolds (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
“Westkunst,” Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, West Germany, May 30–August 16, 1981.
Huang Yong Ping in conversation with Rohini Malik and Gavin Jantjes, trans. Hou Hanru, Fondation Cartier, Paris, March 8, 1997, →.
The Exhibition “Cieli ad alta quota” was curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for Museum in Progress and Austrian Airlines. See →.
Agamben, 45.
Ibid., 41, 44.
Ibid., 53.