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Since 1993 I have worked with John Seth in an ongoing collaboration named since 1997 as 'work-seth/ tallentire'. 'Manifesto 3' is the third work in a series developed from research that proposes a politics of improvisation in order to address the relationship between the making of art, agency, contingency and event. Preceding works 'Manifesto I', exhibited in 'Predator' at KX auf Kampnagel, Hamburg, November 2001 and 'Manifesto 2', for 'Yes Lets Go' in 'Sum of the Parts', South London Gallery (Sept 2, 2002, 10.00am - 8.00pm) - a 10 hour performance - explored the limits of improvisation in the method of production whilst also employing various tactics to engage the spectator physically and conceptually. Reviewed in Art Monthly No 260 Oct 2002, Manifesto 3 employed a method developed over nine years of collaborative and twelve years of individual projects that has explored the relationship between live action and the mediated image through the juxtaposition of action, object, image, and the 'temporary coincidences' that occur in various spatial designations during the working process. This process entailed gathering fragments of broken furniture and other items of everyday detritus on journeys made by foot made between various sites. These materials, chosen according to a process of chance and 'rules' relating to manoeuvrability were then assembled, disassembled and reassembled in order to reduce identification to the objects' original use and draw attention to the objects' materiality. To reinforce the relationship to temporality, recordings of actions on video were carried out during this process and incorporated into the final installation. Research for the installation produced for 'Manifesto 3' was carried out during a residency at Le Couvent des Recollets and exhibited in 'Densité' (catalogue ISBN 2-84056-143-3) for the École des Beaux Arts, Paris and Kunsthalle, Fri-art, Fribourg, Switzerland in 2004.

Lakas ng Sambayanan (Cory Aquino's People Power) is a coordinated movement of cause-oriented organizations and alliances which were active in the campaign for President Aquino, watched the polls, initiated protest demonstrations post-February 7 and participated in the historic barricades of February. The movement believes that the February 1987 popular revolution was a political act that involved the seizure of state power by the people. To become a social revolution, social relations and social structures need to be transformed. Remnants of the old authoritarian order need to be dismantled to pave way for the creation of a new social order. To deepen democracy and create a just society, the participation of the people must be effectively encouraged and harnessed.

"Since 1979, the Manifesto Research Group (MRG) has been collecting and coding election programs with the aim of estimating policy preferences of political parties. Detailed descriptions of this project can be found in Budge et al. (1987, 2001), Laver and Budge (1992), and Klingemann et al. (1994). During the first phase of the project, while the classification scheme was being developed, each group member was responsible for his or her own data collection. Reliability and validity of content analytic procedures had been secured through intensive group discussions. The second phase of the project started in 1989. In the context of its 'Comparative Manifestos Project' (CMP), the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) provided resources for updating and expanding the MRG data. Coders are now hired to do the content analysis according to this coding handbook. The handbook describes in detail how to select the documents, how to identify the coding units, and how to apply the classification scheme. A reliability test given in the handbook is used for training coders." (author's abstract)

The Manifesto was released in the midst of the Canadian federal election campaign to raise the profile of climate issues in the campaign. It puts Aboriginal rights at the forefront of the climate debate, calls for energy democracy and a bottom-up revival of democracy, declares austerity " a fossilized form of thinking that has become a threat to life on earth", and enumerates clean energy projects and means to pay for them. LEAP is supported by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which published a companion report, We Can Afford the Leap, and also by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Celebrity signatories to the Manifesto include environmentalists Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, musicians and actors such as Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Polley, Neil Young, Donald Sutherland, Ellen Page, and prominent public figures including Stephen Lewis, Avi Lewis, Maude Barlow, Clayton Ruby, John Raulston Saul, and Judy Rebick, among many others. It is available in many languages for download.

A versified translation of the Communist Manifesto. Adapted from the source document.