Wantanee’s Manifesto, 2005–2007
Developed between 2005 and 2007, this project functions as an early manifesto—a direct critique of an art system increasingly organised around visibility, branding, and self-promotion.
At the time, I was troubled by how artistic value was often produced through exposure: catalogues, websites, media presence, and institutional recognition, rather than through sustained intellectual and artistic inquiry. Many artists appeared more invested in constructing professional identities than in developing rigorous artistic positions.
Wantanee’s Manifesto responds to this condition by exposing the mechanisms through which legitimacy is manufactured and opportunism becomes structurally rewarded. Through irony and critical distance, the work questions how ambition, conformity, and strategic self-display shape artistic careers.
Positioned partly from the perspective of a “non-artist,” the project reflects my attempt to learn the language of the art world in order to analyse and resist it from within. It marks an early effort to confront the politics of recognition, authorship, and value that continue to inform my practice.
