THE
ACTIONS OF FRED FOREST
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Installation
Internet
BIENNAL
OF THE YEARS 3000
SAO PAULO MAC ( MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART) PARC IBIRAPUERA SAO
PAULO
http://www.biennale3000saopaulo.org
FROM 7 OCTOBER TO 15 DECEMBER 2006, FRED FOREST INVITES ALL ARTISTS
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIENNIAL OF THE YEAR 3000, A BIENNIAL IN WHICH
ARTISTS AND CITIZENS TAKE POWER AND EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS TO THE
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM OF IMAGE
YOUR PRESENCE, EITHER THROUGH IMAGES, WORDS OR BOTH, WILL BE HIGHLY
SIGNIFICANT.
ACTIVELY PASS ALONG THIS PROPOSITION THROUGH ALL YOUR PERSONAL NETWORKS.
THE SUCCESS OF THIS INITIATIVE WILL ALSO BE YOUR SUCCESS AND WILL
DEMONSTRATE THE CAPACITIES OF ARTISTS TO SELF-ORGANIZE AGAINST DIFFERENT
CULTURAL POWERS AND THE EXISTING INDUSTRY, USING THE TOOLS OF DIGITAL
COMMUNICATION AND THE INTERNET.
CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE DISPLAYED IN A LOOP ON THE MAC IN IBIRAPUERA
PARK AND UPDATED PERIODICALLY
This year Fred Forest is organizing the Biennial of the year 3000
in São Paulo from 7 October to 13 December 2006. A Biennial
that breaks free from the official Biennial, because it is a digital,
planetary, participatory biennial, a biennial without selection
and consequently, truly democratic.
Fred Forest has always played an important role as a pioneer. In
1973, he was already involved in the creation and performance of
street art, participatory art, protest art, and social art. Over
thirty years later, these art forms constitute an important part
of today's artistic practices given the slowness of cultural institutions
to assimilate innovation. This Biennial of the year 3000 will happen
in the same places as the Biennal of the year 2000: in the Mac USP,
Ibirapuera Park. It will affirm with strength and independence that
art does not stay tied to past concepts. It will demonstrate that
in an age where the Internet is helping to abolish the concepts
of time and space, and where the aesthetics of communication invades
all symbolic and social dimensions, art does that remain stagnant.
The making of art is first done with our senses, and our senses
are not created from obsolete concepts when the world.
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