Double

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Double was the second publication of Storefront’s Manifesto Series. It includes a group of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists who discuss the effects, desires, and implications of the act of doubling, replicating, or copying. Storefront’s Manifesto Series was an event based encounter that intends to develop and expose fresh and new ideas in a short and precise manner. This publication is a version of the manifestos presented at Storefront on March 6, 2012, on the occasion of the arrival of a golden replica of Michelangelo’s David by conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya in New York. Society has constantly regulated the act of copying. Almost as an instinctual impulse towards originality, the desire and need for constant innovation has been protected and regulated throughout history by public shame, bureaucratic forms, or even trials. While copying constitutes the early stage of any learning process, contemporary advanced forms of creation are invested in the definition of taxonomies and development of tools to apprehend preexisting forms as the first step towards contemporary modes of production that are more incisive in responding to contemporary issues. The production of sameness and difference is the issue at the very core of this publication. This compilation of manifestos explodes the understandings, potentialities and possibilities embedded in the act of copying opening a path for learning by copying, and ultimately copying better. Show more