"I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic."

- J.G. Ballard.

Source: Adbusters.org. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/aesthetics-of-activism.html

"Nothing seemed true; I felt surrounded by cardboard scenery which could quickly be removed…."

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1959 edition, p. 106-7. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

"People who live in society have learned to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. Is that why my flesh is naked? You might say - yes you might say, nature without humanity… Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea"

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1964 edition, p. 29. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

"The potential of the white cube is now in the tension implied by a space outside society that can be subverted or misused by artists wanting to engage in the world"

- Charles Esche in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Interview with Charles Esche in ch. "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"Art is still conditioned by the possibility that one thing might just be more important then other things. Otherwise, we are dealing with a uniformity of difference, which exclaims, like a high-school girl in a cartoon: "Daddy, I want to be different just like everybody else!"

- Branislav Dimitrijević in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Interview with Branislav Dimitrijević in ch. "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"The white cube can no longer be used for critical art, but it is the notion of "critical art" that is in crisis, not the white cube. Therefore the strategy is to go not only beyond the myth and ideology of the white cube but also beyond the myth and ideology of the denigration of the white cube"

- Branislav Dimitrijević in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Interview with Branislav Dimitrijević in ch. "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"The white cube is as relevant as a white sheet of paper. (...) If you want people to believe you are saying something "official", something essential, then it is still the case that marks made on a white surface matter"

- Branislav Dimitrijević in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Interview with Branislav Dimitrijević in ch. "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"I never had the illusion that art is autonomous, even when I studied the history of its most rebellious periods. Art depends on ideologies, on money, on fashion, on strong individuals, on information and communication technologies, and on our idealism to deal with it as an autonomous entity. Of course, it is easier to keep up the illusion of its autonomy in the white cube, with a lot of money and with a totally passive attutude to the context."

- Lara Boubnova in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Lara Boubnova interviewed in chapter "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"Sometimes I have te feeling that the white cube is supposed to provoke me to produce a "masterpiece", and that intimidates me. From the point of view of representative power, it is much more fun to deal with any "found place" than with a white cube"

- Lara Boubnova in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Lara Boubnova interviewed in chapter "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"The luxurious status of "whiteness" and "cubicalism" is more important than the space itself; it is a symbol of the status of art"

- Lara Boubnova in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Lara Boubnova interviewed in chapter "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.

"On the one hand, the white cube space serves as a venue for the most radical technological experiments. On the other, it is definitely a venue for commercial presentations, a space for trade. In the first case (...), the form and the space is important only as a neutral and non-intervening surface, a tabula rasa. In the second case, the luxurious status of "whiteness" and "cubicalism" is more important than the space itself; it is a symbol of the status of art"

- Lara Boubnova in MJ - Manifesta Journal N°1.

Source: Lara Boubnova interviewed in chapter "Whiteness & Cubicalism" in Zabel, Igor and Viktor Misiano (eds). 2008. MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°1, Spring / Summer 2003 : journal of contemporary curatorship : the revenge of the white cube? ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 : biennials ; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°3, Spring / Summer 2004 : exhibition as a dream. Milano: Silvana 2008. ISBN 8836611982.