Majority Rules! Opening Saturday, June 22nd, 7:30 - 10pm
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 artworks by artists from 26 countries, gathered through an open call for submissions. After viewing the slides, gallery visitors are invited to vote by secret ballot for their top five works. The slide show will also be available online so visitors can cast their votes via email. Once all of the votes are tallied, the most popular works will be exhibited at a 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. The first show in this two-part exhibition features artists from every inhabited continent. Works can be seen from twenty-six countries, including from all over Europe and North America plus Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, India, Israel and South Africa. Within the United States alone, thirty-two states are represented, from New York to California and Nebraska to Hawaii. 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. Don't forget to VOTE at the Free Gallery or online (from 23 June) at www.freegalleryglasgow.co.uk ***Lobbying is allowed.*** ***Ballot stuffing is not.*** NB longer range visitors may like to know that the GSA degree show is open 10 - 5pm during Saturday 22nd and that there are also very fine exhibitions launches on the saturday evening at Free Gallery's neighbours Glasgow Project Room (from 7pm) and Intermedia Gallery, King Street Free Gallery 31 Chisholm St, Glasgow G1 5HA +44 (0) 141 552 7100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freegalleryglasgow.co.uk ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
