FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 14.06.02
anna balint
epistolaris at freemail.hu
Mon Jun 17 14:49:08 CEST 2002
FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 14.6.02
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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.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/ceol.html
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.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/neidhardt.html
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/neidhardt2.html
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...
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/ray2.html
Glowlab in collaboration with CrimethInc will also be distributing 68
mysterious questions around Frankfurt:
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/crimthinc.html
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.
http://www.manifesta.de/calendar/index.html
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 the Radio X website)
http://www.manifesta.de/calendar/index.html http://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.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/turner.html
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.
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/zein.html
DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002
http://www.freemanifesta.org/entry.html
If you missed the LIFE STIMULATION SYSTEMS presentations this week,
read about it at:
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/eisnor.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
MAP & DIRECTIONS: http://www.freemanifesta.org/find.html
ON THE WEB: http://www.freemanifesta.org
CONTACT: info at freemanifesta.org
OVER 150 ARTISTS SERVED- 100+ PROJECTS NOW ON OUR WEBSITE, MORE
COMING EVERY DAY
JOIN: DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002
http://www.freemanifesta.org/entry.html
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CAN'T BE IN FRANKFURT?
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Pictures of the headquarters are now online at:
http://www.freemanifesta.org/find.html
And remember, most FREE MANIFESTA projects can be perceived and
participated in from anywhere.
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SAL RANDOLPH AT DON'T MISS
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Sal Randolph's MAKE/TAKE, a participatory artwork at Saul Judd's
DON'T MISS..
exhibition 10.06. - 22.06.2002
dontmiss is open wednesday to saturday from 3 - 7.30pm - call for
appt: tel.01743597840
http://dont-miss.net
eschersheimer landstrasse 61-63
by marcarie, o looney, davikvok, funke and oberleitner architekten
frankfurt am main 60329 tel.01743597840
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NEWS FROM OUR FRIENDS
JOIN THE LONDON BIENNALE & HELP CREATE THE SECOND TIRANA BIENNALE:
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THE LONDON BIENNALE
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Dear Free Manifesta,
Thank you for sending me the info about the wonderful FREE MANIFESTA.
Congratulations! Meanwhile, I hope you will tell all artists
participating
in FREE MANIFESTA that they are invited to participate in the
marvellous
LONDON BIENNALE 2002. You can forward to all of them this E mail. The
LONDON
BIENNALE 2002 is currently taking place in diffirent venues all over
the
English capital. It will end on August 31, 2002. It is open to all
artists
anywhere. To register in the LONDON BIENNALE each artist must make
an arrow
of any material and of any size. The artist must inscribe on the
arrow the
words LONDON BIENNALE 2002 and write his/her name beneath these
words. The
artist must have three photos of him//her self taken in front of the
celebrated EROS statue at Piccadilly Circus in central London, and
the three
photos to be sent to me
David Medalla,
Director, LONDON BIENNALE,
11 Naseby,
Hanworth,
Bracknell,
Berkshire RH12 7HD,
England, U.K.
For artists who live away from London, they can make a photo-montage
or
collage or drawing inncorporating images of themselves and the EROS
statue.
There is no registration fee. Please send mail and other
correspondence by
ordinary post.
LONDON BIENNALE artists meet every Sunday afternoon from 6 to 7 p.m.
in Soho
Square in central London. Nearest tube station is Tottenham Court
Road on
the Central and Northern lines. After 7 p.m. till 10 p.m., LONDON
BIENNALE
artists go to the ANGEL Pub next to St. Giles Church, behind the tall
Centre
Point building.
French artist Cyril Lepetit is curating Sunday morning showings of
films and
videos by LONDON BIENNALE artists at the Curzon Cinema on Shaftesbury
Avenue, central London.
On Sunday, July 21, 2002, starting at 2 p.m., Trolley Bus (artist
Bryan
Mulvihill from Vancouver, Canada) will host a constellation of tea
ceremonies in the beautiful gardens of the Horniman Museum at Forest
Hill,
South London. Artists are invited to participate and present their
works at
this exciting live event. E mail Trolley Bus at teahouse at istar.ca
The LONDON BIENNALE website is
http://www.londonbiennale.org
Keep me in touch with FREE MANIFESTA events. On behalf of all
LONDON
BIENNALE artists, I send you all my very best wishes!
Yours,
David Medalla,
Founder & Director,
LONDON BIENNALE
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AND THE TIRANA BIENNALE
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> Tirana Biennale - the Next Challenge
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> The Tirana Biennale 1 was made possible thanks to an enthusiasm and
energy that is without equal, and in spite of the stress and the
conditions of absolute emergency. The logistic difficulties were
brilliantly overruled by the spirit of cooperation between artists
and curators, local organizers and international partners.
>
> The Tirana Biennale 2 will follow the same path of dedication,
involvement and research of interactions, becoming an even greater
challange than the first biennale. The Board of the Tirana Biennale,
represented by the new Director, Edi Muka, and Florian Agalliu,
General Coordinator, the community of Albanian artists and the
cultural institutions are commited to the continuation of the process
of exchange and interaction that we started to explore in the First
Tirana Biennale.
>
> The First Tirana Biennale was a production of energy and will. It
was not accomplished due to a clichè of cultural neocolonialist
intervention in an emerging culture. It always represented a genuine
part of the process of a real cultural dialogue, supported in every
step through the network setup between the National Gallery of Arts,
the City Hall, a wide number of local and international
organizations, and also the external collaboration with Giancarlo
Politi, Editor of Flash Art magazine, thrilled by the imense energy
floating around in the city. It really was a great time of
involvement and expression and we are happy to initiate the second
step of this process.
>
> The Coordination Office for the Tirana Biennale 2 is set up at the
National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, where you can contact the
Director of the Tirana Biennale 2, Edi Muka at: ediqnk at albmail.com,
and starting from June 15th the Coordinator of the Biennale Florian
Agalliu, at: fpilot80 at hotmail.com <mailto:fpilot80 at hotmail.com>
(subject to a later definitive change). Our office shall set up
operations within the month of July on two directions: the creation
of a network of interested international artists, curators, and
cultural insitutions; and the establishment of a funding network,
from public to private foundations and enterprises. You will soon
receive more detailed information as far as the communication process
is concerned.
>
> The Second Tirana Biennale, is scheduled to open in September 2003
at the International Cultural Center, the so-called Pyramid, a
thrilling marble pyramid, former mausoleum of the communist dictator
Enver Hoxha, and the National Gallery of Arts, both venues within
five leasure-walking minutes from each other.
>
> The Second Tirana Biennale will set up THE NEW CHALLANGE, a process
of common work initiated and supported by the city of Tirana,
> ALBANIA, coordinated in Tirana, putting at work a wide range of
layers of expertise.
>
> Obviously without the support of Flash Art, this event requires the
creation of a new network for communication, discussion and
participation. The Tirana Biennale 2 is an international and open
event. It will happen as a result of the process of cummunication
that we are setting up today with you.
>
> Send this message around and experiment a new network.
>
> WELCOME TO "THE NEXT CHALLANGE"
>
> 2nd TIRANA BIENNALE (in Tirana)
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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
ON THE WEB: http://www.freemanifesta.org
CONTACT: info at freemanifesta.org
OVER 150 ARTISTS SERVED- 100+ PROJECTS NOW ON OUR WEBSITE, MORE
COMING EVERY DAY
JOIN: DEADLINE FOR NEW PROJECTS IS JUNE 30, 2002
http://www.freemanifesta.org/entry.html
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