Manifesta Coffee Break
Saturday 12 December 2009
Sara Black participated in the Manifesta Coffee Break in Murcia, Spain on 12th & 13th December.
Manifesta Coffee Break is a recurring public meeting, serving as an active tool to discuss the concept of Manifesta within a larger critical context. Sara Black was invited to participate in the Coffee Break in collaboration with Chamber of Public Secrets (Denmark) to discuss “Unfaithful Relations: Art, Engagement and Audience within the Biennial Model” to look explicitly at the role and involvement of the local audience in its broadest sense: visitors, artists and media.
The questions posed included: how can the local art scene, cultural producers and activists make a sustainable use of biennials, in terms of time, space and continuity? What possibilities are there for audience development? And how to avoid or respond to the common scepticism of the local (art) scene towards a biennial which can be viewed as welcome/unwelcome or invited/invasive?
Cornwall has submitted a bid to International Foundation Manifesta, to host Manifesta for the first time in the UK, in 2014.
