5/30/2023 0 Comments In retrospect![]() ![]() Within the Manifesta biennial framework, the role of Art Mediation is to seek a discursive space in order to enable every individual visitor and participant to explore, experience and interact with its vision and context. Groups included former miners, youth reporters, a choir and the inhabitants of the trailer park Horensberg, just to name a few. With this in mind, the Art Mediation department of Manifesta 9 has proactively worked with a multitude of diverse community groups from the region of Limburg in order to gain insight into the particular social and cultural fabric of the former mining region and to embed Manifesta 9 in that vernacular. ![]() Manifesta Biennials are deeply embedded in their local context the location of Manifesta 9 formed an integral part of the project. An incredibly diverse range of audiences visited Manifesta 9, from general visitors to art professionals, from primary schools to universities and from international visitors to the local community. To date, over 37,000 people have participated in the programs organized by the Manifesta 9 Art Mediation department that is one out of every three people that visited Manifesta 9. The public response to Manifesta’s invitation for such a dialogue has been overwhelming. As such, Art Mediation played a more important role than ever in the success of the Biennial. One of the fundamental characteristics of Manifesta 9 was a critical attempt to foster an interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue using the significance of the former Campine Belgian coal-mining region as a locus of the imaginary, and the ecology of industrial capitalism as its points of departure. For the first time Manifesta took place in one single venue, the now defunct mine of Waterschei in Genk, in the heart of the former coal-mining region of Belgian Limburg. The team of Manifesta looks back to a successful 9th edition of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, an edition that was met with much critical acclaim and saw 100,866 visits to the exhibition. On Sunday, 30th of September, 2012, Manifesta 9 closed its doors in Genk, Limburg, Belgium. The European Biennial of Contemporary Art ![]()
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