Manifesto

Artistic Articulations of Engagement

Abstract

How do artists call for engagement and political relevance with regard to the “ecological imperative”? This contribution focuses on the revival of the Manifesto in contemporary art. This revival formalized an intertextual rhetoric of exclamation and polemic in service to a new ethical stand: a relational worldview. I argue that discourse analysis can identify a shift in format that ultimate touches upon the academic discourse as well.