[HaCkmEeTiNg] ! UPWARDLY MOBILE a project for Free Manifesta, Frankfurt - invitation to partecipate

["valentina ferrarese" <valentinaferrarese@uwnet.nl>]

Hallo to everyone,

this is the new project i'm collaborating on here in Holland.

You're are invited to partecipate and I hope you would accept because we need people soon..

otherwise we can get in big troubles with the Free Manifesta...!!

 

Seriously, i wish you would be part of this very simple project in which you can easily partecipate by sending a letter, a tape, or whatever.

Here below a brief description.

You can reply me to this address.

 

Looking forward to hear from you,

ciao

Valentina

 

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! UPWARDLY MOBILE

 

INVITATION to take a part in the !Upwardly Mobile project within the Free Manifesta.

(Free manifesta www.freemanifesta.org is an open exhibition of non monetary artworks to be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, May 24 - August 25 2002. It is a project by Sal Randolph and is part of the Manifesta 4, www.manifesta.de)

 

Brief description of the project.

 

! UPWARDLY MOBILE is a collaborative project by Norman Beierle (Germany), Valentina Ferrarese (Italy) and Hester Keijser (Netherlands).

 

We propose to use a public space of the Modern Art Museum in Frankfurt during the second week of August (11 August - 18 August 2002).

Approximately 25 international artists are invited to send us a work that fits into a transparent plastic bag, which we will hang in the coat check room of the Modern Art Museum.

 

By this project we offer the participants a real exhibition in the Modern Art Museum of Frankfurt

as well as an opportunity to leave the work in the stock of the museum.

The artists will receive documentation of the show and possibly the receipt from the coat check room if they decide to leave it there as a part  of the museum “collection”.

This way they will have a chance to upgrade their CV and be a part of an exciting network.

 

The coat check room of a museum can be considered as a semipublic space inbetween the institutional  and the non-institutional, and furthermore is not bound to the inner hierarchy of the museum life.

!Upwardly Mobile offers a different approach to the traditional way of exhibiting in a museum.

This action leaves open a range of interpretations  :

 

-         it makes the museum an easily accessible experimental place;

-         it breaks the line between the happy few that exhibit in major art spaces and other artists that are excluded from this network;

-         it questions the static rules of the art institutions

-         it gives the visitors of the museum an unexpected experience in comparison with the preprogrammed activities

 

          Rules for participating:

 

1-      The artist submits a work in any medium, which fits into a transparent plastic bag of 33 x 35 x 5 cm.   We provide plastic bags with the name of the project printed on it.

 

 2-      The work will be sent to the address of Beierle, Farrarese & Keijser at Haagweg 4,

       2311 AA  Leiden, Netherlands, or to the e-mail address: upwardly2002@email.com

  We will transport the artworks to Frankfurt where we will install them.

 

 3-   Correspondence and documentation of the event  will be published in a future web site.

 

      4-   Participants are responsible for the postage unless we get funding for the project.

 

 5-      Participants can include their CV or other info, but this is not mandatory.

 

 6-   We cannot be held responsible for damage to the work.