Manifesto

Manifesto, 2014
series of 7 offset prints on newsprint, each 86 x 58 cm, folded, endless copies

Manifesto is a translation of a Mina Loy’s 1914 “Feminist Manifesto” into shorthand. Written at the outset of the war and after an encounter with F.T. Marinetti, Loy’s call for equality is a direct attack on the Futurist’s self-proclaimed ‘scorn for women’. Her response captures the tenor of the time: it is explosive and polemical, punctuated by exclamation marks and dashes, enlarged type and underlines. This edition of Loy’s manifesto is transcribed into shorthand, a form of abbreviated writing used to quickly record speech—the lingua franca of secretaries and reporters. Printed as an unlimited edition on newsprint, visitors are invited to take copies away and post them in the streets.


Installation with Collectif Blanc, Montréal