[artinfo] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Manifesta 6 School, Nicosia, Cyprus

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
Manifesta 6 School, Nicosia, Cyprus

The deadline for the application is 1 March 2006, 
and the invited participants will be notified by 
30 March 2006.

SUBMIT BY POST OR FAX TO:

Manifesta 6, Corner of Pentadaktilou and Tempon Streets,
P.O. Box 21015, Nicosia 1500, Cyprus
Fax +357 22 432531 / <http://www.manifesta6.org.cy>http://www.manifesta6.org.cy

Please indicate on the envelope the department to which you are applying.

The Manifesta 6 School is now accepting 
applications from cultural producers across the 
whole spectrum, including visual artists, 
architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, 
curators, composers, performers and others, who 
are interested in participating full-time in the 
School programme. Invited participants will be 
expected to reside in Nicosia for the duration of 
the semester. English is the language of 
communication in all the departments. The 
Manifesta 6 School is the central project of 
Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of 
Contemporary Art, which will take place in 
Nicosia from 23 September to 17 December 2006. 
The School is both the site and the content of 
the Biennial, and is its sole activity. Conceived 
and developed by the curators of Manifesta 6, Mai 
Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel, 
the School will offer three thematic 
transdisciplinary departments comprising lecture 
series, publications, screenings, performances, 
exhibitions, radio and TV program mes, workshops 
and other activities.

The deadline for the application is 1 March 2006, 
and the invited participants will be notified by 
30 March 2006. There is no fee for participation 
in the School but participants are responsible 
for their own living expenses. In some cases, 
financial support may be available. Check the 
Manifesta 6 website regularly for updates. Please 
note that all aspects of the Manifesta 6 School 
program are subject to change without notice.

Manifesta 6 is organised by Nicosia for Art Ltd., 
member of the Nicosia Municipality, and the 
International Foundation Manifesta. Manifesta, 
the European Biennial of Contemporary Art is 
initiated and co-produced by the International 
Foundation Manifesta, based in Amsterdam, the 
Netherlands.

APPLICATION FORM

First Name:

Surname:

Date of birth:

Place of birth:

Citizenship:

Male/Female:

Postal Address:

Town:

State:

Country:

Postcode (Zipcode):

Phone number:

E-mail:

1. Please provide a brief biography of yourself in no more than 200 words.

2. Which of the departments of the Manifesta 6 
School are you most interested in, based on the 
general descriptions provided below? Please 
explain your reasons in no more than one page. 
Although applications are submitted to specific 
departments, participants will be able to attend 
all the School’s activities.

DEPARTMENT I: Influenced by a broad range of 
critical thinkers including Arundhati Roy, Noam 
Chomsky and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and 
inspiring cultural producers as diverse as 
Laibach, Eyal Weizman, Jerome Bel and Jacques 
Tati, this department will look at agency and 
modes of participation within the cultural field 
on the socio-political scale. It will address the 
mechanisms employed by power structures such as 
public institutions, academia, media and 
corporations, and examine architecture as a 
significant ideological force. Within this 
framework, the department advances creative 
production as a means of individual and social 
empowerment.

DEPARTMENT II: The topics of this department 
include: ‘What’s Left?’—why and how advanced 
culture aligns itself with the politics of 
progress; "Poetics of Circulation’, which 
considers the ethical/aesthetic value of 
inserting poetics and subjectivity into the 
classical Marxist equation; and "Recording 
Nothing’, an inquiry into how contemporary 
artistic and literary works that refer to 
documents can reveal the withdrawal of what we 
think is still there after a surpassing disaster. 
The advisors for this department include: Liam 
Gillick, Boris Groys, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, 
Jalal Toufic and Tirdad Zolghadr.

DEPARTMENT III: This department focuses on 
knowledge production by looking at the methods by 
which new meanings are produced and disseminated, 
and at the social and economic transformations 
induced by movement, both literal and 
metaphorical. It will look specifically at Cyprus 
as a case study of complex political reality and 
location. It will address the bipolarity of 
nature and nurture within the context of 
contemporary society in relation to new 
technologies and examine the language of science 
as a defining social force in understanding 
contemporary life on both the individual and 
social level.

3. In no more than two pages, please send any 
additional information that you feel is relevant 
to representing yourself for the purposes of this 
application. Do not send résumés or letters of 
recommendation.

Date:

Signature:

SUBMIT BY POST OR FAX TO:

Manifesta 6, Corner of Pentadaktilou and Tempon Streets,
P.O. Box 21015, Nicosia 1500, Cyprus
Fax +357 22 432531 / <http://www.manifesta6.org.cy>http://www.manifesta6.org.cy

Please indicate on the envelope the department to which you are applying.