Manifesta 12 Newsletter | September 2018

Last two months to visit The Planetary Garden! The 12th edition of the European nomadic biennial is a unique opportunity to discover stunning hidden or abandoned places in Palermo while searching for amazing works of art, videos, participatory projects, and public interventions inspired by The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence. Discover the 50 amazing works and get mesmerised by the uniqueness of the venues, gardens, palazzos and oratories of Manifesta 12 alongside explore the wonderful venues of the 86 M12 Collateral Events which are presented next to the biennial. Get Your Ticket! Local Season Pass - only for residents of Sicily: 10 €* Family Season Pass (2 adults, max 3 kids up to 17 years old) - only for residents of Sicily: 20 €* Student Pass: 10 € * Season Pass: 35 € * 1-Day Ticket: 15 € 3-Day Ticket: 25 € Family 1-Day Ticket (2 adults, max 3 kids up to 17 years old): 30 € * All Passes grant unrestricted admission to all biennial's venues until 4 November 2018. All tickets and passes can be purchased online at www.manifesta12.org/tickets, at Teatro Garibaldi (Manifesta 12 HQ), and in the Tourists Centres of Palermo (CIT) in via Maqueda 191 (CIT Bellini: Tuesday to Sunday, from 9am to 7pm), in via Cavour 133 (CIT Cavour: Tuesday to Sunday, from 9am to 7pm), and at the harbour (CIT Porto: Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 9am to 2pm). Opening Hours Manifesta 12 venues are open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 8pm. With the exception of: Orto Botanico (Tuesday to Sunday from 10 to 7pm - in October from 10am to 6pm); Chiesa di S. Maria dello Spasimo (Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm); Volpe Astuta (Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 2pm); Pizzo Sella (Visit is possible only by booking a tour with one of the Manifesta 12 Gardeners). Every day, Tours and Special Tours with the Manifesta 12 Gardeners! Similar to botanical gardeners, Manifesta 12 Gardeners are caretakers, cultivating the coexistence of visitors’ opinions around the biennial. They introduce you to the topics of the biennial, proposing a collective discussion on a selection of works and on the venues they are exhibited in. The tours are available in Italian and English, and in French, German, and Spanish upon request. Manifesta 12 offers to its visitors different kind of tours: Tours for Groups: for a maximum of 16 people per tour, the tour for group costs 50 € per group and is FREE for schools. Choose the venues you would like to visit, pick up the day and the hour that suit you most and book! More at manifesta12.org/tours-for-groups Special Tours: since the biennial also consists of public interventions and urban studies on some peripheral neighbourhoods of the city, Manifesta 12 Gardeners will walk you to: > The Garden designed by Coloco and Gilles Clément in via Primo Carnera ZEN 2, every Thursday from 4:00 to 6:00 PM (manifesta12.org/tour-to-zen); > to Pizzo Sella to discuss the project by Rotor Da lassù è tutta un’altra cosa (2018), every Wednesday and Friday, from 4 to 6 PM (manifesta12.org/tour-to-pizzo-sella); > Manifesta 12 also offers the Bike Tour, a special bike ride along Manifesta 12 venues organised with the local association Social Bike. You can rent or bring your own bike and..discover Palermo with the wind blowing through your hair every Tuesday from 4.30 to 6PM! (manifesta12.org/bike-tour). Open Tours for individual visitors: available every day, from Tuesday to Sunday at 6:00 PM, open tours are free of charge with a valid Manifesta 12 entrance ticket. To participate, you need to sign up at the Ticket Office at Teatro Garibaldi (open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM) at the day of the tour (first come, first served). More at manifesta12.org/individual-tour   Choose Your Tour Now! 1. Garden of Flows Tour Venues: Orto Botanico or Palazzo Butera. Tuesday 18:00 - 19:30 in English* Saturday 18:00 - 19:30 in Italian (In September 17:00-18.30 for Orto Botanico) 2. Out of Control Room Tour Venues: Palazzo Ajutamicristo and Palazzo Forcella De Seta. Wednesday 18:00 - 19:30 in English* Friday 18:00 - 19:30 in Italian 3. City on Stage Tour Venues: Palazzo Costantino. Thursday 18:00 - 19:30 in English* Sunday 18:00 - 19:30 in Italian * In Italian if there are no English speakers. Bookings and information: www.manifesta12.org/tours Manifesta 12 is pleased to present Accountable Networks the second chapter of Manifesta 12 Public Programme.  Accountable Networks configures as an archipelago of interventions of various nature, happening from 28 to 30 September 2018. Discursive programme will come together with performative interventions, listening sessions and Manifesta very own 18-hours creative marathon Manifesta 12 Accountable Networks Hackathon, a social coding event, open to all individuals (computer programmers, designers, subject-matter-experts, all around interested people) called upon to work together and to give form to innovative ideas, while exploring specific areas of knowledge and action. Application guidelines to participate in the Hackathon can be checked online at manifesta12.org/hackathon (application deadline 23 September). Three days of screenings, talks and performances at Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo will start from 28 September at 7pm, and will unfold through a screening and a talk with Adam Curtis, a conversation with researcher Tiziana Terranova and the indisciplinary research group Gruppo Ippolita, the launch of an air-fueled sculpture Aerocene (in collaboration with Enel Energia), in the 18-hour Hackathon (in collaboration with PUSH and Consorzio Arca), in the radio intervention by Jace Clayton and in the new listening session by Invernomuto. On Friday 14 September at 7.30pm at Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo, as a satellite event to the second chapter of Manifesta 12 Public Programme, Irish artist John Gerrard has presented his new project Neural Exchange and performed a generated simulation. Accountable Networks is produced by ARS – Assemblea Regionale Siciliana. All events are free and are mainly in Italian. Please refer to the website for the full programme manifesta12.org/accountable-networks. Summer is over but the Manifesta 12 Film Programme continues until the end of the biennial! The Manifesta 12 Palermo Film Programme presents a cinematic display of the central themes of the biennial through a selection of fictional and documentary films that inform and enrich the overall narrative of The Planetary Garden. The Manifesta 12 Film Programme gravitates around the following themes: On Gardens, on Networks, on Circulations and finally On Palermo. After the great success of the screenings held during the summer at Arena La Sirenetta in Mondello, which on this occasion has reopened after 12 years of abandonment, from Thursday 20 September, the Film Programme will be held again at Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo, offering two free screenings per week. The screening calendar includes a series of appointments enriched by introductions and Q&A with the authors. Screenings are free and open for everyone. No booking required but seats are limited. Before leaving the wonderful Arena La Sirenetta we want to celebrate with you the great success of the Manifesta 12 Film Programme. On Saturday 15 September at 9PM, after the screening of Enzo Domani a Palermo by Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco (1999, 60 min. Italian. No subtitles available), we will partying with the DJ-set by Stefania Pia. Check our Facebook event for further info: www.facebook.com/events/2298579100375225/ For the full Film Programme, please check our website and follow Manifesta 12 official Facebook page and  Instagram account. Manifesta 12 Education Club Organised by the M12 Education Department, Manifesta 12 Education Cluband its participants examine the grey zone between cultural mediation and social practice. In this grey zone, the two fields are barely distinguishable, overlapping, coexisting and using each other’s approaches. It was in this grey zone that we found ourselves during the first days of research in Palermo. There we met most of our local collaborators and allies of the Education and Mediation Programme of the biennial. And it is this grey space which the Manifesta 12 Education Hub continues to investigate. The temporary community of M12 Education Club breathes fresh air into existing discussions by fostering the circulation of new perspectives. The topics (issues) are revised by doubts and ongoing reflection, acceptance, and examination of failures – as well as non-verbal modes of communication and participation. This approach addresses recurring questions while avoiding generalisation, repetition, and fatigue. Manifesta 12 Education Club takes place on 19 and 20 October at Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo. Speakers include: Hedwig Fijen (Director, Manifesta), Stefan Kalmár (Director, ICA, London), Carmelo Rodríguez (Enorme Studio, Madrid, for the Education Hub project, Education Department, Manifesta 12), Perrine Détrie (Yes We Camp, Marseille), Céline Rousseau (Le Gare Franche, Marseille), Nico Angiuli (visual researcher, filmmaker and performer, Bari), Valentina Mandalari (Coordinator of the project ‘Un Sacco di Palermo’, Education Department, Manifesta 12), Annamaria Cilento (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino), Annabelle Arnaud (FRAC, Marseille) and Gloria Vitaioli (Save The Children, Firenze, Italia). The M12 Education Club have limited seats and include two levels of engagement: club members (upon application) and audience (upon registration). If you want to participate, please fill the form at the links below:  Application for Members: manifesta12.org/education-club-members Registration for Audience: manifesta12.org/education-club-audience For further information and full programme of the Manifesta 12 Education Club  please visit: www.manifesta12.org/educationclub Manifesta 12 Education Updates Manifesta 12 Education Hub, the travelling education platform realised with the support of DGAAP of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs, has reached almost 20 different neighbourhoods of Palermo! At the beginning of September, the Manifesta 12 Education Department has announced the stops that Hub will do in September and October. The Hub's activities are run by Manifesta 12 Gardeners, and are all inspired by the projects of The Planetary Garden. In Autumn, a series of workshops will be run together with the associations, artists and designers participating in the Manifesta 12 Collateral Events and 5x5x5 programmes. For the full schedule of stops and for all information on the collaborations, please check:  www.manifesta12.org/education-hub-programme The last Manifesta 12 Family Days took place last 26 August 2018 at Orto Botanico di Palermo. Titled Like Seeds On The Wind, it consisted of workshops for children and adults alike inspired by the works of Leone Contini, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Khalil Rabah and Michael Wang, all on view at the botanical gardens in Palermo. All these workshops have been run by the Manifesta 12 Gardeners and members of ArciGay Palermo, Palermo Pride and Famiglie Arcobaleno. The next Manifesta 12 Family Day will take place on Sunday 30 September from 3pm to 6.30pm. On this occasion artist Malin Franzén will run a workshop, while other activities will be organised by the association Orto Capovolto. More information will be available soon at: www.manifesta12.org/family For further information on the activities of Manifesta 12 Education department  please visit: www.manifesta12.org/education Manifesta 12 Publications and Palermo Atlas Launch in Rome For its 12th editions in Palermo, Manifesta has commissioned three different publications: Palermo Atlas - 30 € Publisher: Humboldt Books Commissioned by Manifesta 12 and undertaken by the OMA, the Palermo Atlas represents an alternative model for pre-Biennial exploration, and is based on an omnivorous collection of stories gathered in the city. It is on sale at Manifesta 12 Bookshop at Teatro Garibaldi, or online at www.humboldtbooks.com/en/book/palermo-atlas Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Guidebook - 15 € Publisher: Domus Editoriale The Manifesta 12 Guidebook is an essential companion for visitors to the Biennial in Palermo. It includes a curatorial introduction and presents the different sections, venues and participants of The Planetary Garden. It is possible to purchase Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Guidebook at the bookshop of the Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo or online on the following website: www.shoped.it/manifesta-12-palermo. Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Reader - 12 € Realised in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam An anthology of articles selected by the Creative Mediators contextualises the topics mobilised by Manifesta 12 from different perspectives. Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Reader is on sale at the bookshop of the Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo. Manifesta 12 Collateral Events and 5x5x5 Programme Guidebook- 10 € Publisher: Manifesta An essential guide to all 71 Collateral Events throughout Palermo and Sicily as well as the 15 projects from the 5x5x5 Programme, with opening dates and times as well as descriptive texts in both English and Italian. Manifesta 12 Collateral Events and 5x5x5 Programme Guidebook is on sale at Manifesta 12 bookshop at Teatro Garibaldi di Palermo. On Friday, 28 September 2018 at 11am, the Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Creative Mediator at Manifesta 12 and Partner at OMA, will present Palermo Atlas at MAXXI Museum in Rome, and will debate with Hou Hanru, Artistic Director at MAXXI, and Giovanna Silva, Founder at Humboldt Books. The talk will be moderated by Pippo Ciorra, MAXXI Architettura Senior Curator. More info at www.maxxi.art/en/events/palermo-atlas. Many of the Manifesta 12 Collateral Events and 5x5x5 projects keep running! Although they are not part of the main programme titled The Planetary Garden, the Manifesta 12 Collateral Events and 5x5x5 run in parallel to the biennial. Throughout Palermo and other communities in Sicily, amazing venues have generously opened their doors to host the Manifesta 12 Collateral Events. Locations from stupendous Baroque palaces to Norman architectural masterpieces and artisanal workshops, many of which have never received the public, can now be seen and experienced through the lens of local, national, and international cultural organisers. In September, other extraordinary projects by renowned artists, galleries and institutions have been presented in Palermo and beyond. From the project The Hidden City that brought to the stunning Palazzo Abatellis key speakers in the fields of art, design, botanics and architecture, to the artistic residency project XDANISINNI, presented by Xrivista; from PUSH presenting MICRO||COSMI and the new graffiti by BR1, to Magazzino Brancaccio's events and MoltiVolti Altrove with its ongoing ethnic cooking classes. From the urban vegetable garden by OrtoCapovolto to Elena Bellantoni's exhibition at Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva and Marginal's project Counter-colonial Aesthetics in via G. La Loggia 5.  For more information of the Manifesta 12 Collateral and 5x5x5 projects still ongoing:  www.manifesta12.org/collaterals Manifesta 12 Palermo in the Press The Palermo Cultural Renaissance keeps drawing the attention of journalists from all over the world. More that 1 thousands articles have been published from the beginning of this year on Palermo and Manifesta 12, and many features have been transmitted on major national and international radio and TV channels such as Rai, Sky Arte HD, ORF.AT, ARD, ZKM, Radio Rai, Radio Techetè and Radio Montecarlo. This month, we have collected the enthusiastic reviews of The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence published in the major international and Italian media outlets such as: Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica - FOOD Supplement, D-La Repubblica, KESQ.com, E-Flux, INTERNI Magazine, L'Altraeconomia e Bell'Italia. Particularly, an insightful article on this month issue of ArtReview by Ben Eastham highlights that: "As  Pangloss  learns  in  Voltaire’sCandide(1759)  –to  which  the  exhibition’s  subtitle  alludes  –that  ‘human  grandeur  is  very  dangerous’,  so  Manifesta  proposes  that  living  ethically  means  adapting  to  local  conditions,  relinquishing  a  degree  of  control  over  the  world  of  which  we  are  part  and  recognising  the  virtues  of  pragmatism.  Collovà’s  installation  includes  a  desk  on  which  a  sheet  of  paper  offers  a  set  of  definitions  of  archaeology  that  might  equally  describe  the  impression  left  by  the  biennial:  ‘WHAT  REMAINS’;  ‘WHAT  RESISTS  OR  CAN  RESIST’;  ‘A  PLACE  FROM  WHICH  YOU  CAN  REALISTICALLY  RESTART’. Also, we would like to recommend this insightful review on Manifesta 12 Palermo, published on AMMODO website: www.ammodo.org/ammodo-x-manifesta-12 Read the selected online press coverage of Manifesta 12 at this link:  www.manifesta12.org/coverage