Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Josef Dabernig, Wisla, 2000 © Manifesta 3 / Josef Dabernig
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This film by Austrian artist Josef Dabernig had two male actors playing the role of coaches following the progress of a fictional football match. The camera focused on them exclusively, as they sat in the coach’s box at the stadium of Wisla, gesticulating like two men involved in a conflict and from time to time approaching the sideline and trying to interfere in the game. The actors’ gestures became a metaphorical and ambivalent expression of conflict and impotence.