Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores the emancipatory potential of spatial and aesthetic statebuilding in Kosovo. Focusing on ‘Manifesta’, an international arts biennale, we offer three contributions. First we theorise what is meant by emancipatory statebuilding through the lens of spatial and aesthetic approaches, highlighting the importance of critique, the everyday and materiality. Second, we offer an account of Manifesta as statebuilding project. Third, we explore Manifesta’s ability, as a large-scale international intervention, to engage in emancipatory work through its reliance on aesthetic and spatial approaches. We find that Manifesta’s reproduced the troubling dynamics of the international statebuilding project from the 2000s.
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