Problem Stock Exchange at Manifesta 4

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Problemarket.com - Problem Stock Exchange
at Manifesta 4


Frankfurt, Germany - Problemarket.com press conference:
May 26th 2002 at 11:00 - Trespassing Space / Frankensteiner Hof.

Opening of the Displaced Problemarket.com Art-Problems Department - dPAPd and presenting the 
Video Documentary.

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Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer (Problemarket.com - the Problem Stock Exchange) will officially 
open dPAPd - the Displaced Problemarket.com Art-Problems Department in Frankfurt. They will do 
so within the frame of Manifesta 4, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art, which is an important 
international event in the field of contemporary art, already very problematic itself, and combining a 
huge number of contemporary artists, experiencing different problems of theory, production, 
exhibition and creation. Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer are sure that this is the perfect time and 
place for dPAPd to start its mission.

Special guest of dPAPd at Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt will be Mr. Igor Zabel, Head Curator of the 
Modern Gallery in Ljubljana, Director of Manifesta 3 and Member of the Manifesta International 
Board, who will present a special problem with the title:
     "The very idea of Manifesta in danger!"

Davide Grassi and Igor Stromajer, legitimately and in accordance with their duties, are going to 
donate this problem to the honoured members of the Manifesta committee (Problemarket.com - 
Problem Stock Exchange will bestows total ownership and legal rights of disposal of this problem 
upon the honoured members of the Manifesta committee for an unlimited amount of time).

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Visit dPAPd e-Form to submit your artistic or art-related problem!
http://www.problemarket.com/aboutus.html

The main tasks of dPAPd are: 
- To organize the international free market of artistic and art-related problems. 
- To monitor the stock exchange floor of artistic and art-related problems. 
- To continuously co-operate with international institutions dealing with artistic and art related 
problems. 
- To ensure and to secure the profit made from trading with these problems. 
- To analyse the market for global and local needs for these problems in the future. 
- To offer a legal structure for the international art-problems law, concerning trading with these 
problems and to influence local governments to adopt state laws in order to help companies trading 
with artistic problems to get their appropriate positions in the markets. 
- To work on a global plan, an intelligent network of other newly-established centers, institutions and 
departments worldwide, dealing and trading with artistic and art-related problems. 

dPAPd in Frankfurt is also going to function as a corporate nerve headquarters, documentation 
center and archives for transactions and financial initiatives, regarding trading and other business 
related operations concerning artistic and art-related problems. In that sense, the Management 
Board of the Problem Stock Exchange, together with its experts, concretely expects and anticipates 
that because of dPAPd’s successful operations, the trading of artistic and art-related problems this 
year will rise at least 15,7% from last year. With its market analyses the Marketing Sector of dPAPd 
will continually monitor the financial position and state of goods on the artistic problems market and 
on the stock exchange floor.

Problemarket.com invites artists, curators, journalists, theoreticians, critics, producers and also 
institutions (museums, galleries, festivals) to participate in the future work of dPAPd and to help the 
functioning of this department and to contribute to its further development.

"A problem is a challenge wrongly considered", said English poet and philosopher GK Chesterton at 
the beginning of last century. We paraphrase him: "Art is a problem wrongly challenged". Let's make 
a profit out of it!

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Additional Activities of dPAPd at Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt (June 2002)
Problemarket.com patrocinates two excellent music events on RadioX Frankfurt (101.4 Mhz FM 
Stereo): 
- presentation of the BAST music collective 
- presentation of the BeitThron project by MC Brane 

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More information:
     Problemarket.com - Problem Stock Exchange
     c/o Forum Ljubljana
     Metelkova 6
     SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel: +38614314254
fax: +38614338074
e-mail: board at problemarket.com

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external links:

Problem Stock Exchange
http://www.problemarket.com/aboutus.html

Manifesta 4
http://www.manifesta.de

Städel Museum
http://www.staedelmuseum.de

The Open Channel Offenbach
http://www.lpr-hessen.de/ok/off-ffm

RadioX
http://www.radiox.de

BAST
http://www.aksioma.org/bast

BeitThron - MC Brane
http://www.ljudmila.org/beitthron

Forum Ljubljana
http://www.ljudmila.org/forum

Aksioma.org
http://www.aksioma.org

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