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LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AS OF 1 JULY 2002 ------------------------------------------- CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS ------------------------------------------- ALL THE MOST UP TO DATE LISTINGS ON OUR EVENTS PAGE ------------------------------------------- PARTY FLASH: A GREAT NIGHT COMING UP WEDNESDAY THE 17 OF JULY FIRST: Check out the video work of the Romanian ROSTOPASCA GROUP (Nicolae Comanescu, Floe Florin Tudor & Mona Vatamanu) at the Trespassing Space at Manifesta 4's Frankensteiner Hof location (in Sachsenhausen). WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY from 18:00-19:00 (6PM - 7PM). Event is free and requires no Manifesta 4 ticket. ------------------------------------------- Adresse / Adress: Trespassing Space, Frankensteiner Hof, Große Rittergasse 103, Phone: +49/69/60 60 88 71 Email: trespassing@manifesta.de map: http://www.freemanifesta.org/maps/lgmap.gif ------------------------------------------- SECOND: Stop by the Maincaffe and see the video projection of Paris-based, Serbian artist IGOR ANTIC, "Intersecting Territories" & other new works. Hang out for a while and meet some of the Free Manifesta artists who are in town. WEDNESDAY 17 JULY, 21H30. Maincaffe, Museumsufer, Frankfurt. in case of bad weather it will be postponed to Wednesday, 24 July , 21H30. NEWSFLASH: DUE TO RAIN WILL BE HELD ON JULY 24 THIRD: Head on over to the KIOSK for a night with Akufen & friends. This isn't a Free Manifesta event, but kiosk is our official favorite spot for the late night/early morning Frankfurt hours & this should be a very good night. ------------------------------------------- HAPPENING NOW: Eva Strohmeier's INTERACTIVE MIND MAPPING on the billboard space: Plakatfläche Bleichstrasse 59/Eschenheimer Turm - stop by and add your thoughts to the mind map. Also a noninteractive mind map at Plakatfläche Hauptwache/C-Ebene U1,2,3. Eva Strohmeier is a Frankfurt native now based in California. Both mindmaps: 12 JULY THROUGH 19 JULY. HAPPENING NOW: Domenico Oliveros' LA SETTIMANA, in which he is making a drawing with blue and yellow chalk on the sidewalk of Republik Platz angle with Mainzer-Landstr. (near to Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt am Main). This drawing is the classic children play called in Italian "la settimana" (the week). A short moment for a play, to go back to infant pleasure/ innocence. 10 JULY THROUGH 17 JULY1 16 JULY - 21 JULY: Portuguese artist duo SCAPE will be performing DON'T LOOK NOW, walking through various Manifesta 4 exhibition venues wearing black T-shirts that have the words "don't look now" written on them. 17 & 18 JULY: AI KAKUTA from London will be in town giving away his FREE FROGS at the Free Manifesta Headquarters. 21 & 22 JULY: Video from artist SIMON MORRIS and DR. HOWARD BRITTON (UK) - DOMESTIC LECTURES ON PAUL MCCARTHY WITH COMPLIMENTARY LECTURE NOTES. In September 2001, the artist Simon Morris and the psychoanalyst Dr. Howard Britton decided to exchange information on their respective disciplines. Alternating on a weekly basis, one would visit the other and deliver a lecture on a subject from their own discipline. The lectures were filmed with both the 'teacher' and the 'student' being recorded. The lectures took place in their domestic spaces and were intermittently interrupted by cats, dogs, small children, telephone calls and aeroplanes passing overhead. In December 2001, Simon Morris gave an introductory lecture on Paul McCarthy's work. A few days before Christmas they went to view a Paul McCarthy exhibit at The Tate Gallery in Liverpool. In January 2002 Dr. Howard Britton gave a lecture on the work of Jacques Lacan, using Paul McCarthy's piece, 'Bossy Burger' to illustrate Lacan's three registers; the real, the symbolic and the imaginary. The domestic lectures will be presented here in public for the first time. Lecture notes that were during the recording of each lecture will be made freely available to spectators. 21 JULY AND 22 JULY, EACH LECTURE AT 6PM (18:00) in the Trespassing Space at Manifesta 4's Frankensteiner Hof location (in Sachsenhausen). ------------------------------------------- Adresse / Address: Trespassing Space, Frankensteiner Hof, Große Rittergasse 103, Phone: +49/69/60 60 88 71 Email: trespassing@manifesta.de MAP: http://www.freemanifesta.org/maps/lgmap.gif ------------------------------------------- 25 JULY: VALENTINA LOI will be giving away 300 of her oil "Pocket Paintings" around Frankfurt and at the Free Manifesta Headquarters. FREE ART: Every day we get boxes of free artworks from all over -- stop by the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS to see and choose from our ever changing array of work from over 40 different artists. ONLINE: Over 70 net art, mail art, phone art, and email projects are accessible through our website, and more are being added every day. Look for spotlights on these areas in upcoming issues of the newsletter. CATEGORIES PAGE ------------------------------------------- HOW TO LOCATE FREE MANIFESTA ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS: on the groundfloor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, located near the Schirn Kunsthalle, just off the Römerberg. Subway U4, U5 stop: Römer. The headquarters is open 11am to 7pm daily, and no manifesta 4 ticket is required. MAP & DIRECTIONS: http://www.freemanifesta.org/find.html ON THE WEB: http://www.freemanifesta.org CONTACT: info@freemanifesta.org OVER 225 ARTISTS SERVED- 150+ PROJECTS NOW ON OUR WEBSITE, MORE COMING EVERY DAY ------------------------------------------- CAN'T BE IN FRANKFURT? ------------------------------------------- Pictures of the headquarters are now online at. And remember, most FREE MANIFESTA projects can be perceived and participated in from anywhere. ------------------------------------------- WANT TO HELP? ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA is looking for a few friends to look after the headquarters space in August. It's a great way to meet visiting artists from all over & have some contact with the public attending Manifesta. The requirements are not difficult and the time involved can be very flexible. Contact Sal at info@freemanifesta.org if you're interested in finding out more. Also, anyone interested in hosting visiting artists or helping them realize projects in Frankfurt, please contact info@freemanifesta.org. ------------------------------------------- Help Wanted ! for a project Fragile Art Misa Namekawa Is a New York based Japanese artist. Namekawa places five-inch-tall plaster versions of the Statue of Liberty on the streets . After pedestrians kick and step on them, she collect the broken pieces, assemble them back into their original form, and photograph them. She will make the broken statues' posters from the photographs and post them in the streets in Frankfurt. In the process of shooting and posting, she needs volunteers. If you are interested in this project and have free time during the dates, please contact to the Free Manifesta office for the details. http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/namekawa.html Scheduled shooting date: July 25-26 Scheduled posting date : July 31-August 2 Contact to : misaname@mac.com Free Manifesta Office c/o Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus am Römerberg Markt 44 -- misa namekawa ----------------- Visit the web-site http://www.misanamekawa.com ------------------------------------------- MID-SUMMER REPORT ------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MIDSUMMER REPORT: 225 ARTISTS & GROUPS ARE PARTICIPATING IN FREE MANIFESTA CONTACT: SAL RANDOLPH info@freemanifesta.org http://www.freemanifesta.org New York:917-854-7612 Germany:0178-4633160 (through 30 July) July 15, 2002, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As of the close of the entry period on June 30, 2002, 225 artists and collectives had joined Free Manifesta, resulting in the participation of over 300 individual artists. Free Manifesta is an open show of nonmonetary art in public spaces, and is an official participant of Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary art, being held currently in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (from 24 May through 25 August, 2002). Artists are participating in Free Manifesta from all over Eastern and Western Europe, as well as the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Australia. In contrast with Manifesta 4, for which there was no application process, Free Manifesta accepted any artist who chose to enter. Organizer Sal Randolph says. "It is an experiment in creating a gift economy, where artists produce their works independently and together create a social network and context for perceiving the work." By the end of August, more than 45 artists will have traveled to Frankfurt to do projects in the spaces of the city. These include an installation in the city library by Jennifer Pickering (Canada), psychogeographical walks through the streets by Christina Ray (US) and Adrian Lear (Scotland), and Nick Grindell (Germany) moving sound installations by Jeremy Turner (Canada) and Janne Vanhannen (Finland), an exhibition in the coat-check of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt organized by Norman Beierle (Germany), Valentina Ferrarese (Italy) and Hester Keijser (Netherlands), street postering by Swoon (US), and video projections by Igor Antic (Serbia), Raphael Di Luzio (US), Simon Morris & Dr. Howard Britton (UK) and Rostopasca Group (Romania). The idea of public space has been defined very broadly in the context of Free Manifesta to encompass not only the streets and sidewalks but also commercial and municipal space, public airwaves, telephone and mail systems and the internet. Over half of the Free Manifesta projects make use of public communications media which link people together across countries and continents, enabling artists to contribute their work from a distance. Telephone art projects include Susan Mendes Silva's "Artphone" (Portugal) which offered her telephone number for anyone who wished to discuss contemporary art. Mail art projects include Luc Fieren's "POSTFLUXPOSTBOOKLETS" (Belgium) and Terry Kitchen's (US) offer to send some of his semen -- cryogenically stored as an art project in 1968 -- to any woman who wishes to become artificially inseminated. Kathe Izzo (US) in "True Love" offers to fall in love with you for one day, communicating by email. The Free Manifesta website (http://www.freemanifesta.org) acts as a portal for over 65 online & Internet artworks, including Christophe Bruno's "The Google Adwords Happening" (France), Rainer Ganahl's "Picture Rubble" (Austria/US), Joy Garnett's "Smokescreen" (US), Tamara Laï and Jimpunk's javascript movie "T.L.J." (Belgium, Cyberspace), Eryk Salvaggio's "Salvaggio Museum" (US), and Jody Zellen's "Ghost City" (US). Cristine Wang's "Defining Lines" brings together projects from a further 35 Internet artists, including 0100101110101101.ORG who are the only artists to be official participants in both Manifesta 4 and Free Manifesta. The Free Manifesta headquarters, located in the exhibition spaces of Manifesta 4 in the ground floor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein serves as an office, information center, and a place for artists to meet and work on projects. In addition, over 4000 individual artworks by 40 different artist are being given away in a special free art area of the headquarters. Among these are "930" by Mark Malmgren of South Carolina (US) who has made enough watercolor paintings for 10 to be given away every day for the duration of the show, "You cannot by art, art cannot be sold" an edition of 1000 plastic shopping bags by Heribert Friedl (Austria), and "Lock on, lock out," museum lapel pins with military targets on them by David Borowski (US), and "Normal Zoning Tape" from the Normal Group for Architecture (US/Switzerland/Serbia) as well as a large variety of prints, drawings, booklets, stickers, cds, cd-roms, floppy disks and other small-scale works. The smallest artworks submitted were from Peter Coffin of New York whose "Placebo Acid Project" consisted of 1,271 individual hits of placebo blotter acid. Several artists intervened in the space of the headquarters; Ellen Harvey (US) drew a welcome mat, Kathrin Böhm (Germany/UK) tagged the office with her street posters, Sara Reeske (US) drilled a doily pattern into the office cabinet. Free Manifesta is the work of New York artist Sal Randolph, who purchased her participation rights in Manifesta 4 for $15,099 on Ebay. She produces independent artistic projects, most recently the Free Biennial (2002, www.freebiennial.org) and Free Words (2001-2, www.freewords.org). For complete information visit http://www.freemanifesta.org which serves as a catalog and access point for all of the artists projects. An email newsletter detailing current and upcoming events is available by subscription and at http://www.freemanifesta.org/news.html ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA http://www.freemanifesta.org info@freemanifesta.org Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art http://www.manifesta.de ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 1.7.02 ------------------------------------------- NEWS As of noon yesterday, the last official day of entries, over 225 artists & collectives had entered projects in Free Manifesta. A final count will be coming soon, as the last results are tabulated, but with groups included there are now well over 300 participants in Free Manifesta. Thank you to everyone who has entered with their work, and especially to all the artists traveling to Frankfurt from North America, Mexico, and all over Europe to do special projects. If you missed the June 30 deadline by accident, please do contact me to see what we can work out. LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AS OF 1 JULY 2002 ------------------------------------------- CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS ------------------------------------------- ALL THE MOST UP TO DATE LISTINGS ON OUR EVENTS PAGE TONIGHT! - JULY 1 - FRANKFURT BREATHING - FRANKFURT ATMET - Imagine, you were walking at night through the streets of Frankfurt and the buildings started to breath softly. "Frankfurt breathes" is the idea of a collective, large-scale happening, in which all inhabitants of Frankfurt can participate. At two nocturnal occasions (July 1st and August 1st) the sound of breathing can be projected at open windows into the public space. Passing pedestrians will perceive the breathing emerging from the surrounding buildings as if the architecture itself reflected the rhythm of life. Recordings of Gloria Zein's breathing performance can be downloaded from the website, requested by email, or burned onto your own cd by appt at the Free Manifesta headquarters. With the recording's reception you agree to play the sound at one of the event's dates (July 1st or August 1st) between 23:00h and 1:00h at open windows for it to be perceived in the public space. ALL WEEK: American artist Raphael Di Luzio is in town now between projects in Vienna and Croatia, working on AXISMUNDI. Look for him walking around Frankfurt with two cameras strapped to his body, one facing forwards, the other behind. Over the next few days he will be shooting then editing a section of AXISMUNDI based on the city of Frankfurt and the forests of Darmstadt. Later in the week, the finished video will be projected through a window at night somewhere in the city -- look for the location at the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS or on the AXISMUNDI page. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 & WEDNESDAY, JULY 17th- Serbian artist Igor Antic will be presenting his video project INTERSECTING TERRITORIES. The video shows the intersection of different activities in the same space. An antique show, as well as the basketball and football matches, are taking place in a gymnasium. Via video editing, those activities are merged into one event which is both coherent and absurd. The fire engine, the oil paintings, furniture and ceramic sculptures are displayed among sports equipment thus creating a new territory in which spiritual and physical levels intersect. First projection Wednesday 03 July, 18-19 H. Manifesta 4 Trespassing Space/ Frankensteiner Hof, Frankfurt (free). Second projection: Wednesday 17 July, 21H30. Maincaffe, Museumsufer, Frankfurt. * in case of bad weather it will be postponed to Wednesday, 24 July , 21H30. WEDNESDAY JULY 3 THROUGH FRIDAY JULY 5: Scottish artist Adrian Lear will be exploring the fabric of the city for his piece STRAGEGY OF THE VOID, in a series of journeys determined by chance and the U-Bahn network. He says: "Travelling without the aid of a map or guidebook, I will be seeking to discover forgotten, leftover and void spaces in the city fabric. I will respond to each location in an individual way, leaving traces/markers or artworks, slogans and the like or simply recording the place and moving on. The entire process will be documented in a variety of media. This project proposes a piece of urban archaeology in which art becomes a motive [but not a destination] for travelling around the city of Frankfurt. Aesthetically, it aims for an engagement of solidarity with the banal and overlooked sites that are to be found in every metropolis, and to position those places as political: symbolic of the cultural and social upheaval that is hidden on the fringes of every prosperous‚ centre of power." TUESDAY JULY 9: MOODISH PICTURES a workshop with WOWM.ORG at MAK Frankfurt -- Is this a picture? derived from Wrapping Our Warped Minds and it's kind of hommage to all our chatters and their dedication to share our insanity and exigency for pixels, codes and images. Second Wednesday of July will be held workshop at MAK Frankfurt where the wowmers will help participants to make "moodish picture" and take it home on CD. 9.July 2002 at MAK Frankfurt and online (details and any changes will be posted on: http://www.wowm.org/freemanifesta/ (not yet online). WOWM will also be distributing artworks and doing a basket project in Frankfurt during the same period. WEDNESDAY JULY 10 THROUGH WEDNESDAY JULY 17: Domenico Olivero from Italy will be doing LA SETIMANA, a drawing with blue and yellow chalk on the sidewalk of Republik Platz angle with Mainzer-Landstr. (near to Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt am Main). This drawing is the classic children play called in Italian "la settimana" (the week). Also look for his drawing exchange project DONO FOR FREE MANIFESTA at the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS. Make a drawing, and take a drawing. PARTICIPATE Participate in Rüdiger Axel Westphal's ÄPPOLWOI TRINKEN by drinking apple wine in Sachsenhausen. Join Paul Butler in creating A CYBER COLLAGE PARTY that takes place around the globe: Cyber Collage Party: This August 10th, 2002, Paul Butler is inviting you to join him and his friends to participate in perhaps the largest collage party ever. The collage party is basically just an excuse to get together with friends and make collage. All you have to do is find a venue, get some magazines, tape etc..., some food and drink, and the rest will come naturally. Butler wants to invite collage artists all over the world to participate by hosting collage parties of their own the same day, documenting them with digital cameras and scanners, and emailing their parties to http://www.theotherpaulbutler.com . throughout the 24 hr. party, all of the images produced will be posted for all to see. Mexican artist Miguel Cordera left copies of his OMNIPRESENCIA / OMNIPRESENCE posters for people to distribute around Frankfurt. Ask for them at the headquarters or by emailing the artist. Check out the other participatory projects in the "participate" and "interpersonal" categories on our categories page. LOOK AROUND Recent public art installations by Free Manifesta artists can still be seen around town -- find them before the city takes them away: Postering and advertising replacements by SWOON and Rryan Ceol in spaces on both sides of the Main river near the center of town. Public installations of doilies drilled into paper by Brooklyn artist Sara Reeske, on construction sites to the north of the Zeil. Colored paper installation in the front window of the Stadtbücherei, Frankfurt am Main City Library on the Zeil by Canadian Jennifer Pickering. Map installations by Nikolaus Gansterer from Vienna installed on public information maps in the U-Bahn system. Mexican artist Alberto Guedea's paper and walkman installation TRANSFER can be seen in various sites in and near the headquarters. DID YOU MISS? Performances by Adelheid Bechschmidt and Friedo Niepmann in and near the Römerberg on June 29 & 30 -- they may be returning to Frankfurt again, but in the meantime read about their work at: MORE FREE ART: Every day we get boxes of free artworks from all over -- stop by the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS to see and choose from our ever changing array of work from over 40 different artists. ONLINE: Over 70 net art, mail art, phone art, and email projects are accessible through our website, and more are being added every day. Look for spotlights on these areas in upcoming issues of the newsletter. ------------------------------------------- HOW TO LOCATE FREE MANIFESTA ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS: on the groundfloor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, located near the Schirn Kunsthalle, just off the Römerberg. Subway U4, U5 stop: Römer. The headquarters is open 11am to 7pm daily, and no manifesta 4 ticket is required. MAP & DIRECTIONS ON THE WEB: http://www.freemanifesta.org CONTACT: info@freemanifesta.org OVER 225 ARTISTS SERVED- 150+ PROJECTS NOW ON OUR WEBSITE, MORE COMING EVERY DAY ------------------------------------------- CAN'T BE IN FRANKFURT? ------------------------------------------- Pictures of the headquarters are now online. And remember, most FREE MANIFESTA projects can be perceived and participated in from anywhere. ------------------------------------------- WANT TO HELP? ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA is looking for a few friends to look after the headquarters space in August. It's a great way to meet visiting artists from all over & have some contact with the public attending Manifesta. The requirements are not difficult and the time involved can be very flexible. Contact Sal at info@freemanifesta.org if you're interested in finding out more. Also, anyone interested in hosting visiting artists or helping them realize projects in Frankfurt, please contact info@freemanifesta.org. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA a project hosted by Manifesta 4 http://www.manifesta.de FREE MANIFESTA http://www.freemanifesta.org info@freemanifesta.org ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 14.6.02 ------------------------------------------- ::::CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS::::: HAPPENING NOW: Swoon, a Brooklyn-based street artist is postering around Frankfurt & giving away stickers at the Free Manifesta Headquarters. Sara Reeske, also from Brooklyn, is altering some of the Free Manifesta office furniture -- stop by and see her at work. Rryan Ceol is intervening in some of the free Manifesta 4 literature. FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 14 & 15 - TEACH/LEARN CHESS - chess lessons with Brooklyn artist Sharilyn Neidhardt, in the spirit of isabelle reichert, who taught me that "playing chess makes one a better artist". At & near the Free Manifesta headquarters in the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Sharilyn will also be giving away cd-roms of her LIGHT PAINTINGS - photographs which are abstract swirls created by photographing various lightsources with slow shutter speeds using a digital camera. Sharilyn is a member of the Brooklyn-based Glowlab Collective. SUNDAY JUNE 16 - VIRUS ON FOOT: GENERATIVE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY IN FRANKFURT - Glowlab founder Christina Ray will be leading a walk through Frankfurt in collaboration with Dutch group Social Fiction's Hot Summer of Psychogeography 2002. "Generative Psychogeography is an open source concept which describes a method to explore the urban environment. It is as simple as this: stroll through the city on directions like 'first street left, second street right, first street right, repeat'. The simplicity of this route can be deceptive, it turns out that the route which you will take is difficult to predict for more than 3 turns (in an asymmetrical city that is). Add to this that by strolling like this you pass through the city in a way which is so thoroughly alien to the way you normally use the city that you find yourself confronted with the city in new light." Date: Sunday, June 16th, 3 pm. Meet at the Free Manifesta office, on the ground floor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, at Römerberg near the Schirn Kunsthalle. Subway stop Römer. The walk will last one hour and finish up at a local bar for refreshments. You may want to bring a pen and paper and/or a camera to document the walk, which will take place rain or shine... Glowlab in collaboration with CrimethInc will also be distributing 68 questions around Frankfurt. TUESDAY JUNE 18 - MANIFESTA 4 STATEMENTS: SAL RANDOLPH ON FREE MANIFESTA - Meet at 3PM at the Free Manifesta Headquarters for some show and tell with Sal Randolph and various Free Manifesta artists. Refreshments. Frankfurter Kunstverein. THURSDAY JUNE 20 - THE FREE MANIFESTA SHOW on Frankfurt's Radio X - As part of the Manifesta 4 SOUNDRACK, Free Manifesta will be making a special broadcast featuring live conversations with free manifesta artists and soundworks from Perry Bard & Les Leveque, Leif Inge, Krou, Peter Lasell, W. Mark Sutherland, Jeremy Owen Turner & Janne Jussi Mikael Vanhanen and others. 101,4 Mhz \| 12:00 - 13:00. (also streamed live from www.radiox.de.) FRIDAY JUNE 21 THROUGH SUNDAY JUNE 23 - Janne Jussi Mikael Vanhanen (Finland) and Jeremy Owen Turner (Canada/England/Ladonia) will be personally installing their pocket sized digital-audio miniatures by traveling around the public and semi-private venues throughout the Frankfurt am Main downtown core and its environs using found audio amplification equipment (discman, stereo, PA system etc) to realize their pieces. Janne and Jeremy will be traveling around the Frankfurt am Main area as pedestrians/tourists. The exact venue changes every day and is decided spontaneously by Janne and Jeremy. The best way to experience this project is to connect with Janne and Jeremy in person via the Free Manifesta office. JULY 1 - FRANKFURT BREATHING - FRANKFURT ATMET - Imagine, you were walking at night through the streets of Frankfurt and the buildings started to breath softly. "Frankfurt breathes" is the idea of a collective, large-scale happening, in which all inhabitants of Frankfurt can participate. At two nocturnal occasions (July 1st and August 1st) the sound of breathing can be projected at open windows into the public space. Passing pedestrians will perceive the breathing emerging from the surrounding buildings as if the architecture itself reflected the rhythm of life. Recordings of Gloria Zein's breathing performance can be downloaded from the website, requested by email, or burned onto your own cd by appt at the Free Manifesta headquarters. With the recording's reception you agree to play the sound at one of the event's dates (July 1st or August 1st) between 23:00h and 1:00h at open windows for it to be perceived in the public space DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002 ::::ALSO:::: If you missed the LIFE STIMULATION SYSTEMS presentations this week, read about them here. FREE MANIFESTA artist/organizer Sal Randolph's MAKE/TAKE, at Saul Judd's DON'T MISS Eschersheimer Landstrasse 61-63 by appt: 01743597840 ------------------------------------------- HOW TO LOCATE FREE MANIFESTA ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS: on the groundfloor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, located near the Schirn Kunsthalle, just off the Römerberg. Subway U4, U5 stop: Römer MAP & DIRECTIONS CONTACT OVER 150 ARTISTS SERVED- 100+ PROJECTS NOW ON OUR WEBSITE, MORE COMING EVERY DAY JOIN: DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002 ------------------------------------------- CAN'T BE IN FRANKFURT? ------------------------------------------- Pictures of the headquarters are now online. And remember, most FREE MANIFESTA projects can be perceived and participated in from anywhere. ------------------------------------------ FREE MANIFESTA http://www.freemanifesta.org info@freemanifesta.org ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 3.6.02 ------------------------------------------- It's been a great week at FREE MANIFESTA - Over 135 artists are currently participating in FREE MANIFESTA with new projects arriving daily. More than 70 projects are up on the website now, and the rest should be appearing as fast as our fingers can type. The deadline for new entries is 30 June, 2002. Ellen Harvey dropped by the headquarters after finishing her wall painting for the Frankfurt Art Fair and drew us a chalk welcome mat, Kathrin Boehm tagged our office, and Gavin Wade's STRIKE posters have been spotted: FEZA PROJECT's mysterious club on Friday night surprised some people when they arrived at the industrial osthafen location to discover a "club" without music or dancing. A guide greeted each person at the telephone booth "meeting point", and after a brief interview they were lead along the road and down a narrow set of stairs to find a quiet party in the grass on the bank of a canal. It wasn't what anyone expected, but everybody stayed to enjoy the unexpectedly romantic views of Frankfurt lit like a fairy castle. As a part of FREE MANIFESTA, Wolfsmoon, who is the founder of the NO-EURO-BANK (www.wolf-ram.de ), guarded the European Central Bank in Frankfurt with the swiss rescue dog (St. Bernard) TEURO. He will be changing currency outside the main exchange bureau in the Römerberg (near the free manifesta headquarters) later this week (day and time still to be set). Claude Zeib (CLODO-MOTO) stopped by the offices yesterday and created a performance outside which involved meditation, action painting, sword dancing, and a full samurai costume. See pictures and video at: -------------------- We've been giving away FREE ART every day at the headquarters, including Jill Blagsveldt's books of drawings: Heribert's Friedl's YOU CANNOT BUY ART/ART CANNOT BE SOLD plastic bags: Robin Kahn & Kirby Gookin's 100% OFF certificates: Mark Malmgren's watercolors: Matthew Rose's SCARED BUT FRESH prints: plus stickers by SWOON and fluxbux by Dr. Victoria Fluxbuxenstein. See below for what's coming next. -------------------- More than 35 internet artworks are currently accessible through our website, as well as many participatory projects by email, mail, and telephone. Check out the PROJECTS BY CATEGORY page for easy access. The library at the FREE MANIFESTA headquarters is accumulating an interesting group of sound projects including: Leif Inge's gorgeous 24 hour 9BEETSTRETCH Perry Bard & Les Leveque's "Mister Speaker" W. Mark Sutherland's "Scratch" Ingve Rønning's "Easy exercises for the right and left ear, as well as some video by the Romanian group Rostopasca -- stop by and ask to see what we've got. -------------------- FREE MANIFESTA is an evolving space, constantly reinventing itself. Please do visit the headquarters and share your thoughts and ideas with me. Also feel free to join the discussion space on Free Manifesta or Manifesta 4 on the e-manifesta forums . ------------------------------------------- COMING UP SOON IN FRANKFURT ------------------------------------------- CHECK OUT THE NEW EVENT LISTING PAGE for the latest information: new projects around the city are arising all the time, and the event page is the best place to find out what's happening. New York artists Dana Bishop-Root, SWOON and Sara Reeske will be in town this week -- look for their unpredictable work around the city, or stop by the headquarters to meet them. At the headquarters this week you'll find more of everything we've already been giving away, plus CD-ROMs by Denis Markic, an exchange project of drawings by Domenico Olivero,and gift bags with tank tops and CD-ROMs by Cristine Wang. Starting June 10th you'll be able to collect audio for the participatory performance project, Frankfurt Breathing, which will take place on July 1 and August one. Look for more details at. Next week, sound artist team Jeremy Turner from Canada and Janne Vanhanen from Finland are meeting in Frankfurt to personally install their digital audio miniatures around the city. Brooklyn-based Sharilyn Neidhardt and Christina Ray, members of the glowlab collective, will also be arriving in town. Sharilyn will be teaching chess and giving away CD-ROMs June 14 & 15 Christina will be leading a psychogeographic walk on June 16 at 3PM. ------------------------------------------- SAL RANDOLPH AT DON'T MISS ------------------------------------------- Sal Randolph's MAKE/TAKE, a participatory event & opening on JUNE 10TH at Saul Judd's DON'T MISS space opening/event 10 June 2002 7 - 10pm exhibition 10.06. - 22.06.2002 dontmiss is open wednesday to saturday from 3 - 7.30pm -- http://dont-miss.net eschersheimer landstrasse 61-63 by marcarie, o looney, davikvok, funke and oberleitner architekten frankfurt am main 60329 tel.01743597840 ------------------------------------------- CAN'T BE IN FRANKFURT? ------------------------------------------- Pictures of the headquarters are now online. And remember, most FREE MANIFESTA projects can be perceived and participated in from anywhere. ------------------------------------------- DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002 ------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS to Dana Bishop-Root for her enormous help setting up the headquarters, Nick Grindell for his generous gift of translations of our information into German, and the curators and staff of Manifesta 4 for their assistance and willingness to play. ------------------------------------------- FREE MANIFESTA http://www.freemanifesta.org info@freemanifesta.org ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- BACK TO CURRENT NEWS JOIN THE MAILING MAILING LIST [freemanifesta] [deutsch] [artists] [projects] [categories] [images] [contact]