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©image: Nástio Mosquito
Collection: Courtesy of the artist.
The video Nástia’s Manifesto offers us seventeen points to success. Adopting an alter ego named Nástia, a rather cocky Nástio Mosquito talks to us, offering advice points that are a confusing mix of profundity, misogyny and pseudo-managerial rhetoric. It is a sort of experimental mantra, bluntly telling us to either dismiss or follow some of the main social constructs in society, from aspiration, status and leadership, to education, religion and history. As Nástia proclaims at both the beginning and end, it is “hypocritical, ironic, and do not give a fuck.” (NH)
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> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. M HKA, Antwerp, 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.