Manifesto

Manifesto was conceived during a creative writing exercise in a workshop at Residenz Theater Munich, within the theme of “Manifestieren”. It was successively refined and concluded individually, intentionally shifting away from the workshop’s original political conception of manifestos.

Manifesto is a conceptually rich performative text that comes to life only through the act of reading, speaking, or listening. Structured as a living manifesto, rather than a political or declarative one, the text doesn’t proclaim anything, it manifests itself. The work reads as a post-human meta-linguistic ritual: an act of acknowledgement and gratitude between language and who pronounces it, questioning the bodily and cognitive nature of language as an act of shared existence.

Presented as poetry, spoken word, performance, or video work, Manifesto examines the opaque limit and continuity between text, language, meaning and subject. In an era shaped by digital fragmentation, it proposes an alternative temporality: slow, relational, and co-created, where language survives only through the shared act of keeping it alive.