100% extra free was an intervention in public space during the "artsteps beyond the gallery"-workshop from June 2th- 6th 2004 in Newcastle.

It plays with jargons of our daily life. To buy a mobile means to enter into the area of digital lifestyle as promoted by TV-advertising. Sending a text message is probably the most recent way to communicate and it is interesting to see the way language changes as we communicate.

100% extra free is a fake promotion action to send free text messages. The fake reveals itself instead of entering into the digital life the visitor goes back to the analog (nearly dead) area of a typewriter. 100% extra free will create an archive of digital messages brought back to an analog way - on paper.

For the later exhibition a presentation an object was created that allowed poeple to manually scroll through the typed messages via a crank handle.

PERFORMANCE
outside Watt Space Gallery and in Civic Park
Newcastle, Australia
June 2– 6th 2004

EXHIBITION
kopfüber
Glaskasten Limona, Weimar (DE)
January 20th– 23 2005