My chosen art-work is from the same exhibition made for the Manifesto project the AMP for Anti-manifesto party made by Poppy Ash, Maryam Kazimi, and Lauren Culloty.

The work itself was a yellow box stuck on the wall with many small books, manifestos, and anti-manifestos in it. The box has a nice home-made, punkish aesthetics and its color contrast is reminiscent of the posters made by the Guerilla Girls. The books itself are coming in 20 different designs and an inverse color combination as well and has 10 copies each. Simplistic in design the girls were clearly approaching the whole theme through humor and with the intention of having fun.

The books including pictures taken out of context, appropriating random things and drawings from the studio and from newspapers. The work itself becomes an anti-manifesto through the rejection of the rhetorics of a classical manifesto and becomes a representation of the whole class through the appropriation of drawings and ideas from other students. It also provides a nice interactivity with the books being readable and takeable.

When asking the girls why their decision fell on a group project they said everyone brings individuality and new ideas in. By doing a group project the work becomes a celebration of diversity and individuality.