Manifesta 8, Dialogue with Northern Africa ( DOES IT EXIST ? )

Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel works on trying to find if there is a dialogue with Northern Africa ." Dialogue with Northern Africa " with North Africa is the theme of the Manifesta 8 , the European Biennial of Contemporary Art . www.emergencyrooms.org Colonel as a "Biennalist "is very attached to the thema of the Biennale. .The outcome of Colonel 's work will be a TV program for spanish M7 ( and more ) , thanks to CPS . Colonel has worked previously with commissioned TV for main national danish channel DR . He did 28 programs developing first the character of a french toursist , and then the character of an active Immigrant . Those programs got rated in the top 5 of the viewers statistics and were exhibited in Museums around the world ( PS1 MOMA _ Sprengel Museum Hannover etc ...) . For MANIFESTA 8 Colonel now develop the character of an" ARTIST COLONIALIST " . He plays and act what he believes his function is : to seduce local population to inject some contemporary spirit . ( is the Contemporary good ? ). It is describes as his function and not role as artist . ( do artists have roles or function ? .)He declares the character of the ARTIST COLONIALIST could be a metaphor for maybe all of us artist converting (local ) populations and media's to the goodness of the "Contemporary ". As an ARTIST COLONIALIST in the region of Murcia he feels that artists are replacing the massive army settlement of the region , doing the same kind of missions. The theme of the Manifesta Biennale <b>...</b>
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