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Majority Rules! 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 viewers 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. 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. Don't forget to VOTE 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 groupof curators who are given creative freedom and who encourage feedback about their respective projects. Majority Rules! was devised 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) this past spring and their previous project, Curatorial Proposal, was shown at Artists Space in New York City in 2000. Free Gallery 31 Chisholm St, Glasgow G1 5HA, Scotland +44 (0) 141 552 7100 [log in to unmask] http://www.freegalleryglasgow.co.uk