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VISIT HEADQUARTERS AT MANIFESTA 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIDSUMMER REPORT: 225 ARTISTS & GROUPS
ARE PARTICIPATING IN FREE MANIFESTA
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
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FREE MANIFESTA
http://www.freemanifesta.org
info@freemanifesta.org
Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art
http://www.manifesta.de
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OVER 100 ARTISTS TO PARTICIPATE IN FREE MANIFESTA
24 May, 2002, Frankfurt am Main. Over 100 artists are participating
in the Free Manifesta exhibition this summer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Free Manifesta is an open show of nonmonetary art being held in the public
spaces of Frankfurt, as well as through communications media such as the
internet, mail, and telephone from May 25 - August 25, 2002. A project
of New York artist Sal Randolph, Free Manifesta is an official participant
in Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Artists entries
continue to be accepted through 30 June, and the number of participants
is expected to grow considerably over the upcoming month.
Among the more than 100 artists currently participating are Katherin Boehm,
Rainer Ganahl, Joy Garnett, Robin Kahn & Kirby Gookin, Katerina Karoussos,
Patrick Meagher, and Simon Morris, curator/artists Jonathan Van Dyke and
Gavin Wade, sound artists Leif Inge, Perry Bard, W. Mark Sutherland and
Janne Vanhanen, internet artists Valery Grancher, Jimpunk, Judson, Tamara
Laï, Eryk Salvaggio, Stanza, Cristine Wang, Jaka Zeleznikar, and
Jody Zellen.
The Free Manifesta headquarters are located in the ground floor of the
Frankfurter Kunstverein, and are open to the public daily from 11AM to
7PM. Visitors to the headquarters can pick up information about Free Manifesta
projects, meet with artist and organizer Sal Randolph, and occasionally
take away free art objects from participating artists.
Sal Randolph, a New York artist, bought her participation rights in Manifesta
4 for $15,099 on Ebay. She purchased the invitation and participation
rights of invited artist Christoph Büchel, who auctioned off his
place as a conceptual artwork.
“I enjoyed the reversals of power that Büchel’s piece created,”
says Randolph. “My own work involves questioning the structures of
money and power, and it seemed like a perfect match.”
“As an artwork,” Randolph adds, “’Free Manifesta’
is an idea-structure, a kind of social architecture. What interests me
is how these social architectures are given life by the consensus, the
gift, of their participants. An alternative economy is created, based
around this gift,which joins both the artists and those who experience
the artwork in a new relationship.”
Sal Randolph produces independent artistic projects involving social networks,
situations, and interactions, including “Free Words” (http://www.freewords.org)
and “The Free Biennial” (http:/www.freebiennial.org). She is
a graduate of Harvard and a resident of New York. More information about
Free Manifesta and the projects of participating artists can be found
at www.freemanifesta.org
LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
AS OF 1 JULY 2002
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AN OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS FOR FREE MANIFESTA
http://www.freemanifesta.org
contact: info@freemanifesta.org
FREE MANIFESTA is an open exhibition of nonmonetary artworks to be held
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany from May 24 - August 25, 2002.
Any artist who wishes may participate with such works as ephemeral installations,
guerilla performances, interactions, dérives, situations, giveaways,
ambulatory declamations, parties, neo-happenings, apartment shows, guided
experiences, screenings, projections, mail art, downloadable music, web-based
work. Artworks will be produced independently and take place in public
spaces throughout the Frankfurt area, including communications media like
the internet, broadcast airwaves, telephone, and mail.
FREE MANIFESTA is a project of artist Sal Randolph and will be an official
participant in the European biennial Manifesta 4, http://www.manifesta.de.
It is intended as an experiment in creating a social network of artists,
a gift economy which that can act as an alternative to traditional forms
of exhibition in commercial and institutional contexts.
Entries will be accepted until June 30. Guidelines for artists and a required
entry form are available on http://www.freemanifesta.org.
NEW YORK ARTIST SAL RANDOLPH BUYS PLACE IN
MANIFESTA 4
Contact:
Sal Randolph 212-219-9328
info@freemanifesta.org
http:./www.freemanifesta.org
Tuesday, April 23, New York. Sal Randolph, a New York artist, has bought
participation rights in the European Biennial, Manifesta 4, which will
be held in Frankfurt, Germany this summer. She purchased the invitation
and participation rights of invited artist Christoph Büchel, who
auctioned off his place on ebay.
Randolph won the ebay auction on March 29 with a high bid of $15,099.
The auction was Büchel’s conceptual artwork entitled “Invite
Yourself,” and was his official entry in Manifesta 4. As the high
bidder, Randolph will receive the full rights accorded any invited artist,
including project budget, preview visit to Frankfurt, exhibition of her
artwork, and representation in the Manifesta 4 catalog and short guide.
“I enjoyed the reversals of power that Büchel’s piece created,”
says Randolph. “My own work involves questioning the structures of
money and power, and it seemed like a perfect match.”
Randolph will create a project for Manifesta 4 called “Free Manifesta.”
“The idea,” she says, “is to create a context where any
artist who wishes can participate. It will be an open show that takes
place in public spaces and through communications media like the Internet,
mail, and telephone.” The exhibition spaces of Manifesta 4 will house
an information and social center for Free Manifesta. Randolph is currently
organizing a similar project in New York, the Free Biennial, which continues
throughout the month of April. “Over 250 artists are participating
in the Free Biennial,” says Randolph. “I expect to have even
more in Free Manifesta.”
“As an artwork,” Randolph adds, “’Free Manifesta’
is an idea-structure, a kind of social architecture. What interests me
is how these social architectures are given life by the consensus, the
gift, of their participants. An alternative economy is created, based
around this gift,which joins both the artists and those who experience
the artwork in a new relationship.”
Sal Randolph produces independent artistic projects involving social networks,
situations, and interactions, including “Free Words” (http://www.freewords.org)
and “The Free Biennial” (http://www.freebiennial.org). She is
a graduate of Harvard and a resident of New York.
Manifesta 4 will take place this summer, from May 24 through August 25
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Manifesta 4 website is http://www.manifesta.de
