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10/8/2002

!Upwardly Mobile

MMK - Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

!UPWARDLY MOBILE is a collaborative project by Norman Beierle, Valentina Ferrarese and Hester Keijser, and is part of the Free Manifesta*.

!UPWARDLY MOBILE will use a public space of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt between 11 and 18 August 2002 for a special exhibition. Approximately 25 international artists were invited to send a work that fits into a transparent plastic bag, which will be hung in the coat check room of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt.

Through this project, the organisers offer the participants a 'real' (albeit hilarious) exhibition in the Museum für Moderne Kunst 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 part of the museum "collection". This way the participating artists will have a chance to upgrade their CV and be a part of an expanding network.

Project Background
What remains of an exhibition nowadays - reviews, catalogues, websites, documenta-tion, established contacts and networks within the art world etc.- is often more important for both public and artists than the exhibition itself ever was. How many artists' works do we know only through the traces it has left behind? Is not the exhibition increasingly a device for generating publicity, rather than something in its own right?

!Upwardly Mobile takes this idea to the extreme by reducing the exhibition to this nuclear task; what is important is that the art works have factually been inside a museum or any major art institution for a certain time. This does not have to be an extensive period, just long enough to start generating the desired traces of its history.

The coat check room of a museum has been chosen for this purpose, as it can be considered a semi-public space in between the institutional and the non-institutional, still open for interventions like these. In fact, !Upwardly Mobile behaves like a clever parasite of the museum organism. It uses its host for transportation to other suitable hosts and simultaneously assuring its survival by feeding on the life saps of the museum, such as it's good name and the visitors. As with other harmless parasites, !Upwardly Mobile will by itself not cause any vital damage to the organism of the host, merely a slight sense of irritation.

During the exhibition the visitors of the museum will be encouraged through discussions with the organisers of the project to take on the role of scientists, studying the life cycle of the parasite and the relation between host and its unsolicited guest.

Project organisers
!UPWARDLY MOBILE is the first collaborative project of Norman Beierle (Germany), Valentina Ferrarese (Italy) and Hester Keijser (Netherlands). All three artists are operating internationally and have had shows throughout Europe.

For more info you can reach them at: upwardly2002@email.com or write to:
Beierle - Ferrarese - Keijser, Haagweg 4, 2311 AA Leiden, The Netherlands.

Participating artists as of July 4
Sebastian Behmann
Norman Beierle
Jean Pierre Ceton
Tamuna Chabashwili
Donald Clark
Alasdair Currie
Iemke van Dijk
Caroline Eggel
Escapes
Matteo Ghidoni
Amanda McGregor
Andrew Hewitt
Koen Hauser
Joerg Huber
IRWIN Group
Melanie Jordan
Hester Keijser
Aurelius Kowalczyk
Andrea Morrucchio
Esther Polak
Erwin Posarnig
Samantha Rees
Erzen Shkololli
Sasha White
Guido Winkler
Juan Zapata
Laszlo Zoltan
Mattias Zuccheti

*The Free Manifesta is a project by Sal Randolph for the Manifesta4 in Frankfurt.
For more information about the Free Manifesta and the Manifesta4 please visit:
http://www.freemanifesta.org
http: //www.manifesta.de

Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

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