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Majority Rules! (Part One)
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show that accompanied this exhibition.
Welcome to Majority Rules!, the first of a two-part show at Free Gallery where you are invited to be both audience member and curator. Over 350 slides are available for you to choose from, a group containing all the slides received from an open call for submissions held in April. The response to this call was enormous, and included artists from over twenty-six countries and every inhabited continent. Due to the openness of the submission procedure, featured works run the gamut of subject, content, style, and medium: video, performance, printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography are all represented in these slides. To view all of these artists’ work together for this brief time is a unique opportunity.
View the images in the slide show or on the computer, choose your top five works, and submit your ballot. Persons who cannot make it to the gallery will also be able to view the slide show online and cast their vote via email. Once all of the votes are tallied, the most popular works will be exhibited in the second exhibition at Free Gallery in October 2002. Instead of the outcome of one curator’s voice, this exhibition will be the product of an entire global audience’s collective opinion. This is democratic curating by the people, for the people.
This exhibition does more than simply subvert the curatorial process and empower the audience member. It also exposes a vast number of people to the work of a diverse swath of artists. Artists and viewers in Glasgow, for example, can see the work of artists in China or Brooklyn through this interchange. The final exhibition, drawn from the winners of this giant metaphorical chat room, will be the outcome of this exchange, and may perhaps give us a glimpse into the predilections of our times.
Majority Rules! (Part Two)
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here to see the images of the winning pieces.
Welcome to part two of Majority Rules!, an exhibition featuring the winners from part one of this project, held this past summer, in which viewers voted for their favorite works of art. Instead of being based on one curator's vision, this exhibition is the product of a global audience's collective opinion.
The first exhibition of Majority Rules! presented over 350 slides of art work, a compilation of every slide received from an open call for submissions. These slides featured artists from over twenty-six countries and every inhabited continent. Visitors viewed the slides in the gallery or online, and then voted for their five favorite pieces by paper ballot or email. The top twelve most popular works--the outcome of over 4,000 votes--are on view here.
Majority Rules! subverts accepted curatorial practice by relinquishing the power of selection to the audience at large. This final exhibition, chosen from a global sampling of art works, may reveal recurring cross-cultural themes, or illustrate the power of social networks as artists may have enlisted the support of their peers for votes. Regardless of the method by which these works were selected, they are now here together, presented for you to view.
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Artists
presented in Majority Rules! (Part Two) Susan Alveshere - Minnewaukan, North Dakota, USA Gerard Di Falco - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Chad Ferber - Brooklyn, New York, USA Eric Fong - London, England Linda Ganjian - Brooklyn, New York, USA Lisa Kereszi - Brooklyn, New York, USA Larry Lee - Chicago, Illinois, USA Raul Ortega - Glasgow, Scotland Irena Paskali - Skopje, Macedonia Denitsa Petrova - Edinburgh, Scotland Joseph Pfeifer - New York City, USA Di Starr - El Sobrante, California, USA |
