20 februari 2009 - Smart Project Space - Amsterdam The Slow Future Manifestation - 20 February 1909, Marinetti publishes his futurist manifesto in the French newspaper Le Figaro. 100 years later, as modern and contemporary history conform in all facts and points to the Futurists visions, we see emerging a new culture and a new art all over the world, the art of the Slow Future. In 2009 Slow Future celebrates the End of the Fetishism of Speed and Futurist Inheritance, with as landmark the 19th and 20th of February... - ...On Februari 19th and 20th we present two evenings with international artists who have a connection to the concept of Slow Future, even though they are working in many different ways. They share certain characteristics, like an eye for organic development perhaps, or the unfolding of a sound into music, the fluid outcroppings of explosive energy, the call and response within one body and its living relationship to the surrounding architecture... - ...We present these artists and their art as the representatives of a strong current, mostly hidden underneath our culture. A current reaching out towards our Slow Future... - ...20 feb 2009: presenting the Slow Manifesto - an alter futurist text by Pierre Mansire and Kirsten Zwijnenburg - The times are changing. Art, Culture and Society too. We present the audience with a quality of art and new cultural tendancies which could be all gathered under the name Slow Future. Also, at this specific occasion we will present an alter-contemporary or alter-futurist manifesto, the Slow Future Manifesto. - As the futurists prophetized, the XXth Century has been characterized by the obsession of speed. The XXth Century is also remarkable by its obsession with production (like the constructivists understood it), mass-consumption, mass-communication, spectacularisation and war. - Where is the place for diversity in it? Where is the place for the individual in it? Where is the place for contemplation in it? - Contemplation is a key-concept for any creator, and for that you need Time. The same is true for an audience. You can buy or consume an artwork in a heartbeat. But to appreciate it properly, you need Time. So the speed concept, even though it is at the origin of very interesting creations, could be also fatal to the creation of an elaborated form of art expression... - ...Slow Future is thus an invitation to reflection through its theoretical aspects, and as an invitation to re-discover the moments of contemplation that have a fundamental role in the existence of any individuals. Regarding contemplation the best way to reach it is certainly not to write about it, but to create in reality the situations where contemplation becomes possible. Slow Future has invited the following international and local, from complete unknown to very famous artists, musicians and performers to join and create this moment. - Curators: Pierre Mansire and Marije Nie - http://kirstenz.web-log.nl/expressfree/2009/02/slow-future.html

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