Saturday 18 October - Sunday 19 October

Manifesto Marathon Day 1:
Saturday 18 October, 12 noon – 9.40 pm

Manifesto Marathon Day 2:
Saturday 19 October, 10 am – 7 pm

London Consortium student Lee Scrivner will perform his new manifesto The Sound Moneyfesto at the Serpentine Gallery’s Manifesto Marathon on Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 pm.

Click here to see the full schedule of participants

Two day ticket £35
One day ticket £20 full price £15 concessions

Please note that the Manifesto Marathon takes place inside the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion so access to the interior of the Pavilion will be restricted for visitors not attending the event.
Manifesto Marathon, the third in the Serpentine Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathon events, takes place in the closing weekend of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry. Manifesto Marathon comes at a time when artists are working less in formal groups and defined artistic movements. The Marathon showcases a new generation of artists alongside practitioners from the worlds of literature, design, science, philosophy, music and film who are returning to the historical notion of the manifesto. The Manifesto Marathon draws on the Serpentine Gallery’s close proximity to Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, which has been used as a platform by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell and William Morris, among many others.

Avant-garde pioneer Yoko Ono, Gilbert & George, who famously proclaimed ‘Art for All’, Ben Vautier, key protagonist of the Fluxus movement, and legendary artist Elaine Sturtevant will join a new generation of artists such as Terence Koh, Hilary Koob-Sassen and Athanasios Argianas to present their manifestos for the 21st century in this two-day ‘futurological congress’ in the park. The Marathon will also feature architects, including Andrea Branzi, Peter Cook, Charles Jencks, Claude Parent and Rem Koolhaas; scientists, writers and historians including the eminent Eric Hobsbawm; film directors including the legendary Agnès Varda; and philosophers, designers, and musicians including musical revolutionary Brian Eno. Vivienne Westwood’s manifesto Active Resistance to Propaganda will be presented by 26 performers and Marina Abramovi? will be accompanied by 14 performers.

This year’s Manifesto Marathon is the third in a series of Marathon events conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects and follows the 2006 24-Hour Interview Marathon, created with Rem Koolhaas, and the 2007 Experiment Marathon, created with Olafur Eliasson. For more information about past Marathons click here.

Tickets available from: Ticket Web 08700 600100
www.ticketweb.co.uk or the Gallery lobby desk.