¡otra BIACS ¿será posible?! (another BIACS! will be possible?) and Manifesto

This communiqué outlines the origins of the Plataforma de Reflexión sobre Políticas Culturales (Platform of Reflection on Cultural Policies, PRPC), from Seville, founded after the publication of a special issue of Parabólica magazine in November 2004 and related conferences designed to interrogate the first International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS 1, October 1 – December 26, 2004). Concerned by the effects of “biennialism” as a system, the authors of this communiqué also included a manifesto alluding to the second edition of BIACS (October 26, 2006 – January 15, 2007), curated by Okwui Enwezor, and the names of the first artists and cultural agents to join these protests.