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From "valentina ferrarese" <valentinaferrarese@uwnet.nl>
Date Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:46:49 +0200
Subject [HaCkmEeTiNg] Fw: FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 8.7.02

Title: FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 8.7.02
 
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FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 8.7.02

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Thanks to everyone who came out for a great FREE MANIFESTA PARTY.  We kept the bartender up late and experienced a dramatic live performance by PAVU.COM artists Joachim Desarmenien, Paul Dupoy, Jean Philipe Holgand, Jaques Rerconte, and Clement Thomas.  I'm back in the United States now, but FREE MANIFESTA continue at full speed until the 25th of August.  Stop by the office and meet a whole new set of visiting artists from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US.

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CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS

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ALL THE MOST UP TO DATE LISTINGS ON OUR EVENTS PAGE:
http://www.freemanifesta.org/event.html

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HAPPENING NOW THROUGH AUGUST 15: MISA NAMEKAWA (Japan/US) is in town and creating her project FRAGILE ART.  She says:  The theme of "Fragile Art" is destruction and reconstruction. I placed five-inch-tall plaster versions of the Statue of Liberty on the streets in New York. After pedestrians kicked and stepped on them, I collected the broken pieces, assembled them back into their original form, and photographed them. I made the broken statues' posters from the photographs and posted them in the streets in New York.

This week and next she'll be recreating the project on the streets of Frankfurt.  Look for her wherever there are lots of pedestrians.

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/namekawa.html

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ALSO IN FRANKFURT:  A group of 7 French artists making all kinds of projects & spending time in the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS.  They will be presenting the results of their new work in Frankfurt at DON"T MISS on August 13 -- check this space and our event listings page for details.

The group includes:

Stéphanie Boisset
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/boisset.html
Bluescreen
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/bluescreen0.html
Cerebrolax
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/cerebrolax.html
Gaaln
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/gaaln.html
Jessica Luhahé
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/luhahe.html

DON'T MISS:
http://www.dont-miss.net

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AUGUST 9: IRINA DANILOVA'S FRANKFURT F-DAY FOOD FEAST

The entire city of FrankFurt is invited on Friday, august 9, to be a part oF my annual diet perFormance "DISHIZA". Every summer I eat by alphabet (each day only food that starts with the same letter: apples and apricots on A-day, etc.) Russian alphabet in July and English in August. My F-day by English alphabet this year Falls on Friday, august 9th. All Frankfurters are welcome to share my F-day with me.

"Dishiza" is a part of my Project 59.There are 33 letters in Russian alphabet and 26 in English. All together -- 59. Also each year during this project I perform the transformation of my weight from 159lb to 59kg.

Three easy ways to participate:

1. Eat just F Food. From Five Fifty 9 am Feed yourselF, Family and Friends with Food that starts with letter F: Fish (preFerably Fluke), FalaFel, French Fries, Figs, Feijua and Favorite Fresh or Frozen Fruit.

2. Just eat: Food

3. If you don't want to eat -- Fast.

No one could Fail.

This is a FrankFurt’s Fate (Fortune and Fame) to participate in Fabulous F day Food
Feast, during Free maniFesta, on Friday, August 9, 2002.

Have Fun!

On August 9, Irina Danilova will be performing F-day at Franklin Furnace in New York.  Her performance will be streamed live online from

http://www.thing.net/~irinadanilova
(THIS PAGE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE EVENT)

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/danilova.html


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AUGUST 10:  PARTICIPATE: Hold your own CYBER COLLAGE PARTY with Canadian artist PAUL BUTLER.

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.  All you have to do is host a collage party on the 10th of August and email in your installation shots and collage works produced to: pbutter@mts.net. (yes, butter not butler). VISIT http://theotherpaulbutler.com for more information

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/butler.html

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AUGUST 10: HOW CAN THE ARTIST BE GENEROUS - THE BANK OF TIME by VALENTINA FERRARESE
10:00 AM to 6PM outside the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS.

HOW CAN THE ARTIST BE GENEROUS? – THE BANK OF TIME is a no profit public action by Valentina Ferrarese (Italy) on the occasion of Free Manifesta, Frankfurt. The Bank of Time action is part of IDP project research. The artist proposes a public action which will take place the 10 of August from 10.00 am until 6.00 pm in the outdoors area of Frankfurt am Main, near the Free Manifesta Headquarters. The action functions as a "bank of time"thanks to which people can ask the artist to do a task, an appointment, a job instead of them and for free. The people will be asked (not obligated!) to remain in the place of the artist.

WARNING!
The artist will be recognizable by wearing a shirt with the words "IDP - Bank of Time 10.00 am - 6.00 pm"and by sitting behind an ordinary table along the sidewalk. All the day action will be documented and collected in the Free Manifesta Headquaters and in the web site. (www.digiland.iol.it/otherplacesIDP)

The Bank of Time is an short action by which the art act becomes a context of public domain. The artist underlines the necessity of an open relationship between art, public space and everyday life, in which openess can be achieved only by a "generous way of doing art". It concerns not only the relationship between artist and people, but also the one between the artist and his "artwork"in which the artist should be able to lose control of the final result.

HOW TO LOCATE

The intervention will take place the 10 of August from 10.00 am until 6.00 pm in the outdoor area of Frankfurt am Main, near the FREE MANIFESTA HEADQUARTERS.

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/ferrarese.html

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AUGUST 11: ! UPWARDLY MOBILE by NORMAN BEIERLE, VALENTINA FERRARESE, HESTER KEIJSER

! 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. 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

HOW TO LOCATE

The project is accessible in the coat check room of the modern art museum in Frankfurt on August 11 and August 18, as well on a future website

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/beierle.html

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AUGUST 17:  WASHING MACHINE WALKING THROUGH A FIELD OF GLASSES by MARTIN STIEFEL

A washing machine which is enabled to walk will walk through a field of glasses (5 meters x 5 meters, each 15 cm one glass). the way the washing machine will take nobody knows but where it walks it will destroy the glasses. when it comes out of the field the event is finished. the time of the event is just half a minute or maximum one minute.

August 17 at 14:00 (2PM) outside the HEADQUARTERS at the Frankfurter Kunstverein

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/stiefel.html


to find the headquarters: http://www.freemanifesta.org/find.html


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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.  Over 4000 individual artworks have already been given away.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/find.html

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.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/categories.html


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ALSO:  More sounds from Free Manifesta sound artists JEREMY TURNER at DONTMISS - now through August 18.
http://www.dont-miss.net

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/turner.html


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HOW TO LOCATE FREE MANIFESTA

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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


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SUPER THANKS to FRANKFURT
with a bit of Berlin & New York

especially

SAUL JUDD and DONTMISS
http://www.dont-miss.net

NICK GRINDELL
if you ever need german/english translations:
grindell@t-online.de

DANA BISHOP-ROOT
sanitary_work@yahoo.com

MATHIAS WOLLIN and everyone at ASPEKT 1
http://www.aspekt1.net

STEPHAN BECK and THE THING-FRANKFURT
http://www.thing-frankfurt.de

ARTKRUSH
http://www.artkrush.com

HARALD GEISLER
http://www.knallerkiste.de

KIOSK - just go
http://www.schutzkontakt.com

the staff of the FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN
http://www.fkv.de

the staff and curators of MANIFESTA 4
http://www.manifesta.de

and of course CHRISTOPH BÜCHEL & EBAY
http://www.ebay.com

and to all the residents of Frankfurt, visiting and participating artists who have made this happen.


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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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