1. PROLOGUE – Burning fuse
- Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 (1918)
- Philippe Soupault, Literature and the Rest (1920)
2. FUTURISM – Broker
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (1909)
Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrá / Luigi Russolo / Gino Severini, Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910)
Guillaume Appollinaire, The Futurist Antitradition (1913)
Dziga Vertov, WE: Variant of a Manifesto (1922)
3. ARCHITECTURE – Worker in a garbage incineration plant
Bruno Taut, Down with Seriousism! (1920)
Bruno Taut, Daybreak (1921)
Antonia Sant’Elia, Manifesto of Futurist Architecture (1914)
Coop Himmelb(l)au, Architecture Must Blaze (1980)
Robert Venturi, Non-Straightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto (1966)
4. FILM / Epilogue – Teacher
Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision (1963)
Jim Jarmusch, Golden Rules of Filmmaking (2002)
Lars von Trier / Thomas Vinterberg, Dogma 95 (1995)
Werner Herzog, Minnesota Declaration (1999)
Lebbeus Woods, Manifesto (1993) – Epilogue
5. VORTICISM / BLUE RIDER / ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM – CEO at a private party
Wassily Kandinsky / Franz Marc, Preface to the Blue Rider Almanac (1912)
Barnett Newman, The Sublime is Now (1948)
Wyndham Lewis, Manifesto (1914)
6. SUPREMATISM / CONSTRUCTIVISM – Scientist
Naum Gabo / Anton Pevzner, The Realistic Manifesto (1920)
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Manifesto (1916)
Olga Rozanova, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism (1917)
Alexander Rodtschenko, Manifesto of Suprematists and Non-Objective Painters (1919)
7. DADAISM – Funeral speaker
Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 (1918)
Tristan Tzara, Manifesto of Monsieur Aa the Antiphilosopher (1920)
Francis Picabia, Dada Cannibalistic Manifesto (1920)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, The Pleasures of Dada (1920)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, To the Public (1920)
Paul Éluard, Five Ways to Dada Shortage or two Words of Explanation (1920)
Louis Aragon, Dada Manifesto (1920)
Richard Huelsenbeck, First German Dada Manifesto (1918)
8. STRIDENTISM / CREATIONISM – Tattooed punk
Manuel Maples Arce, A Strident Prescription (1921)
Vicente Huidobro, We Must Create (1922)
Naum Gabo / Anton Pevzner, The Realist Manifesto (1920)
9. SURREALISM / SPATIALISM – Puppeteer
André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)
André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1929)
Lucio Fontana, White Manifesto (1946)
10. SITUATIONISM – Homeless man
- Lucio Fontana, White Manifesto (1946)
- John Reed Club of New York, Draft Manifesto (1932)
- Constant Nieuwenhuys, Manifesto (1948)
- Alexander Rodtschenko, Manifesto of Suprematists and Non-Objective Painters (1919)
- Guy Debord, Situationist Manifesto (1960)
11. POP ART – Conservative mother with family
Claes Oldenburg, I am for an Art… (1961)
12. FLUXUS / MERZ / PERFORMANCE – Choreographer
Yvonne Rainer, No Manifesto (1965)
Emmett Williams, Philip Corner, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allen Bukoff, Larry Miller, Eric Andersen, Tomas Schmit, Ben Vautier (1963-1978)
George Maciunas, Fluxus Manifesto (1963)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maintenance Art Manifesto (1969)
Kurt Schwitters, The Merz Stage (1919)
13.CONCEPTUAL ART / MINIMALISM – Newsreader and reporter
Sol LeWitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967)
Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969)
Sturtevant, Shifting Mental Structures (1999)
Sturtevant, Man is Double Man is Copy Man is Clone (2004)
Adrian Piper, Idea, Form, Context (1969)