For Immediate Release
Contacts: Robb Mitchell at Free Gallery
Tara McDowell and Letha Wilson
Majorityrules2002@hotmail.com
 
Majority Rules! (Part One)
June 22-July 20 or 27th?, 2002
Opening reception June 22, ? pm
 
Majority Rules! is a two-part exhibition at Free Gallery that offers an innovative curatorial strategy: the audience decides what gets shown in the gallery. The first exhibition features a slide show of over 350 art pieces by artists from over 25 countries, gathered through an open call for submissions. After viewing the slide program gallery visitors will vote for their top five pieces. The slide show will also be available to view online where visitors can cast their votes via email. Once all of the votes are tallied, the most popular pieces will be exhibited at a second exhibition at the Free Gallery in October 2002. Instead of the outcome of one curator's voice, the exhibition will be the product of an entire global audience's collective opinion; this is democratic curating by the people, for the people.

The first show in this two-part exhibition features work by artists from all over the world representing 26 countries including Brazil, India, South Africa, the UK, USA, Germany, Australia, and China. From within the United States alone, artists represent 32 different states; from New York, to California, Nebraska to Hawaii. Due to the openness of this submissions procedure works run the gamut of subject, content, style, and medium: video, 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 for vistors to the Free Gallery or their website.

Don't forget to VOTE at the Free Gallery or online at www.freegalleryglasgow.co.uk

***Lobbying is allowed.***
***Ballot stuffing is not.***

Exhibitions at the Free Gallery are curated on a rotating basis by a group of curators who are given creative freedom and who encourage feedback about their respective projects. Majority Rules! is created and organized by Tara McDowell and Letha Wilson, a collaborative team that takes an experimental approach to new methods of curating. Their most recent project, (Your Show Here), was on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, Massachusetts, this past spring and their previous project, Curatorial Proposal, was shown at Artists Space in New York City in 2000.