Introduction to the Lueneburg ManifestoIn the context of "Crosskick-Critique Croisées, European Art Academies as Guests in German Art Organisations", the Halle Fuer Kunst in Lueneburg invites students from the postgraduate study program "Critical Curatorial Cybermedia" of the Geneva University of Art and Design.
Our project questions the institutional critique and educational mutations within the Bologna Process.
In the course of this collaboration, we came to the idea of producing a manifesto through a collective brainstorming. As a result of endless discussions, we, the students of the Lueneburg University and the students of the CCC, decided to revisit the format of the manifesto, the language, the vocabulary, and maybe the content.
This manifesto establishes a public sphere, where it is possible to permanently discuss, transform, and reformulate the text. It also aims to rethink and reflect upon the production of its kind. Every statement has an equal value. The entire modification process is chronologically recorded. The content is not limited to its current state but can always go back to where it began. We believe in the collaborative writing of manifestos, in the evolutive character a manifesto can have. At any point in time, any statement can be added to the list and modified so that the whole transformation process becomes transparent. It’s all about taking part in the common production of a subjective vocabulary. The historical idea of a manifesto as the manifestation of a fixed and ultimate state of mind has to be replaced by a teaching/learning process.
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THE LUENEBURG MANIFESTO
(it is not about revolution, but evolution)
3rd generation Institutional Critique is about solutions.
Develop reflexive autonomous structures and avoid institutionalization.
We have to think of new ways for critical knowledge to be produced and spread.
Identify power, develop political consciousness and show it in our practice. The so-called “apolitical” is affirmative and therefore political as well.
In a multifaceted consumerist society freedom comes across as a simulacrum for creative self-determination: Market diversification does not equate freedom of choice.
We must not leave the decision of what education is today to corporate interests, but build our own networks for the achievement of transdisciplinary knowledge.
Universities should not reproduce the hegemonial discourse but instead give room to questioning.
Education is not a saleable commodity. Therefore it does not have to cope with market demands. Advertising, branding, competitiveness - No thanks!
Education should be public.
Art can be education.
Public institutions in general should guarantee a space to develop free, independent and critical reflection.
Creativity is autonomous. It is not only production. It is not a market tool, it is a tool for our own everyday life. Creativity is not a label, it’s a practice.
We don’t feel complied to always be efficient and creative.
We will take part in setting up a subjective vocabulary for the whole of society.
Solidarity is the result of a productive competition !!!!
Produce relevance not competition!
Be relevant, refuse competition!
We should not just document or comment on society but engage and develop new forms and strategies of action.
Resistance should be about finding other ways than frontal conflict, try stealth tactics !
Let's institutionalize autonomy !
Let's institutionalize ourselves !
Art can be anything !
Art should take a strong critical position without fear !
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