FREE MANIFESTA FLASH: EVENTS TOMORROW 17 AUGUST & SUNDAY 18 AUGUST

[anna balint]

Sal Randolph <info at freemanifesta.org>


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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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   FREE MANIFESTA FLASH 16.8.02

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   SEE UDO KOBER'S FREE MANIFESTA LOGO INTERVENTION
   http://www.freemanifesta.org


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   TWO EVENTS OUTSIDE THE FREE MANIFESTA OFFICE TOMORROW (SATURDAY):

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   AUGUST 17 13:00 (1PM)
   RUIN-ART LIEBLICH BY BIRGIT WEIDMANN

   Birgit Weidmann will be doing some interesting actions with Frankfurt
   trash.

   Handlungsanweisung

   Es wird Plastikmüll (gelbe Tonne) aus verschiedenen Haushalten gesammelt.
    Der Müll wird gereinigt und dekorativ aufgestellt. Mittels diversen
   Werkzeugen aus dem Haushalt oder der Werkstatt wird der Müll zerkleinert.
   Der zerkleinerte Müll wird in ein dafür bereitstehendes Aquarium geworfen.
   Jede Lage Müll wird mit einer Hand voll Asche bestreut. Ist das Aquarium
   nahezu voll, wird der gesamte Müll mit guter Muttererde bedeckt. In die
   Muttererde werden Blumen gepflanzt. Das Objekt sollte als Leihgabe bis zum
   Ende der Freemanifesta dem Büro überlassen und vor der Türe dort
   aufgestellt werden ­ wenn das möglich ist.

   HOW TO LOCATE: August 17 at 13:00 (1PM) outside the HEADQUARTERS at the
   Frankfurter Kunstverein

   Die Performance wird vor dem Büro der Freemanifesta am Römerberg
   stattfinden.

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

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


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   AUGUST 17 14:00 (2PM)
   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.

   HOW TO LOCATE: 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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   AND DON'T FORGET ALSO AUGUST 18
   ! 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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   FREE MANIFESTA
   http://www.freemanifesta.org
   info at freemanifesta.org

   Manifesta 4, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art
   http://www.manifesta.de


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