Closing Reception for Free Store ExhibitionFREE STORE is a project by
Double A Projects (Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein)
Featuring Performances, 7-8pm, Friday, March 20, 2009
Miwa Koizumi NY Flavors Ice Cream 7-8pm
Min Oh - Two Performances, 7:15pm and 7:45pm
Performances as part of the curatorial project by Felicity Hogan, All is one, one is all, Miwa Koizumi returns with her NY Flavors Ice Cream. Miwa will be serving up neighborhood flavored ice-cream influenced by the "tastes and smells from New York City's different tribes." in conjunction with Min Oh's A dialog, an audience participatory performance combining live and recorded action, projection, graphics and video. Min Oh's piece will offer the audience an opportunity to direct the 'dialog' through collective participation in a unique, un-inhibiting and characteristically playful manner. Min Oh will perform the piece on two occasions, 7.15pm and 7. 45pm. Both artists embody the humanistic and egalitarian concepts of the Free Store.
In order to avoid disruption, if you arrive during Min Oh's performance, the front door will be closed (approx 10 mins) please be patient. Thank you.
Hours and Location
Free Store is located at 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton and Ann
Streets). The store will be open from February 19 to March 22, 2009 with a grand
opening reception on Thursday, February 19, from 6–9PM.
Exhibition hours are Thursday–Sunday 12–5PM and by
appointment.
To get there by subway, take the 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or
Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; or A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street.
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More Information about FREE STORE:
FREE STORE OPENS IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN AND OFFERS VISITORS A PRICELESS EXPERIENCE
Storefront Art Exhibition Created to Distribute and Collect Everyday Goods at No Cost in the Heart of New York City’s Financial District
NEW YORK, NY (January 27, 2009) – Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein will present Free Store, an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation, in lower Manhattan. Part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique, the project is a networking model of economic sustenance that can be used in cities worldwide. This first Global Free Store will open on Thursday, February 19th and remain open until Sunday, March 22nd.
As evidenced by record lows in consumer confidence in January, consumers have had to curb spending habits, yet still find ways to maintain their lifestyle. Free Store demonstrates how community and mutual support can be used to fulfill some of these needs.
How Free Store Works: Free Shopping Using the donation and exchange system, visitors can give something useful or get something useful at Free Store. Located at 99 Nassau Street (between Fulton and Ann Streets), blocks away from Wall Street, Free Store will accept donations of items such as books,housewares and art supplies, offer these items for the taking, and stock a few items produced inhouse by the artists.
One World Currency Free Store will distribute World Bills, a global currency that potentially could be used at any free store in the Global Free Store chain.
Contributors to Free Store will receive World Bills for services donated to the store. They can then use these bills to trade with other participants or in future free stores in this series.
Events and Performances Free Store will host special events by invited curators Felicity Hogan, Edwin Ramoran, Julie Sengle and Herb Tam. These events include a curator’s talk, open office hours for artists to get feedback on their work, and interactive artist performances.
“Alternative and generous systems such as bartering have long been used in times of financial hardship,” said the artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein. “Artists, in particular, are familiar with having to be creative to make ends meet and have functioned on generous systems, especially artist-to-artist. Free Store aims to broaden this circle of trust and exchange by including the general public.”
About the Artists Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein (aka Double A Projects) work in collaboration, bringing together their sculptural practices using historical and cultural references, public space and paper media. Their project Counter Culture Cash: Local Currency in Jamaica, NY examined counter culture systems and was featured on artnet.com. In addition, work by Robles and Stein was exhibited at Fountain Art Fair in Miami, Front Room Gallery in Brooklyn, and University of Massachusetts Gallery. Individually, they have shown at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, American Museum of Natural History, NY; NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; and Residencia Corazón in La Plata, Buenos Aires, among other locations.
Hours and Location Free Store is located at 99 Nassau Street, New York, NY (between Fulton and Ann Streets). The store will be open from February 19 to March 22, 2009 with a grand opening reception on Thursday, February 19, from 6–9PM.
Exhibition hours are Thursday–Sunday, 12–5PM and by appointment.
To get there by subway, take the 4, 5, 6, J, M, Z to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or Fulton/Broadway-Nassau Street; or A, C, 2, 3 to Broadway-Nassau Street.
Free Store is sponsored in part by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The September 11th Fund.
Reviews:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/16/new-york-free-store-retail
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/02/28/ny.free.store.wpix
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/the.free.store.2.946340.html
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/3931010.php
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02272009/news/regionalnews/this_stores_free_
for_all_157240.htm
http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2009/02/27/new-york-citys-free-store/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/shopping/Shop-Lifting-Encouraged-a
t-One-Manhattan-Store.html
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