Manifesta 6.1, Dept III: Abschlussball/Contract of Discord

Published in IDEA Magazine, Romania
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Contract of Discord was a collective project with more than 20 of the pre-supposed participants of Dept. III of the canceled Manifesta 6 biennale scheduled for Nicosia, Cyprus. The canceling of the biennale transformed it’s initial intentions, becoming the first purely textual biennale, comprised of legal documents, emails, press, [...]

The Momental

6. Mai - 10. Juni, 2006 | Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
Group Exhibition, lecture programme and workshops.
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“ Through all the changes ‘something’ remains – that something is the moment…no sociological or historical determination can adequately define this temporality…its wish is to reinstate discontinuity, grasping it in the very fabric of the lived.” Lefebvre, Critique of [...]


Plurinaming / Polyphony

The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:

Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.