Statement
This is a receipt from mailing two Shop Maniberg purchases. Shop Mandiberg works both in the virtual and physical world, and is dependent on both the net and the postal network. Because everything is catalogued in shop, nothing is left over. This receipt would have been discarded, though it now has tobe incorporated into the site itself.

Bio
Michael Mandiberg is a performance and net artist whose work focuses entirely on identity, commerce and language. His most recent project, "Michael Mandiberg, Freelance Conceptual Artist" (www.Mandiberg.com/time.html) is a web portal that allows individuals to purchase his time. The site features a compendium of action verbs from which to choose, from "photographing" to "cleaning floors," allowing the viewer to buy a certain amount of his time. The juxtaposition of artistic, skilled labor and pedestrian tasks asks the viewer to think in terms of the complex interrelationship of art, business and labor instead of the traditional art vs. craft dialectic. This project is a division of "Shop Mandiberg," a fully functional e-commerce web site that markets and sells every last one of Mandiberg's personal possessions. "Shop Mandiberg" has received seventy-five thousand hits and sold over sixty of his possessions to date. Other recent projects include "New Webster's Dictionary," a performance piece where he scrapes the words out of a dictionary and places the by-product in a jar. "New Webster's Dictionary" has been performed in the New York Public Library and at the Brown University Library. Michael Mandiberg received is BA in Visual Arts and English from Brown Univeristy and completed a Degree Project in Photgraphy at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has shown his work at the List ART Center, The Red Eye Gallery, Gallery 221, the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Woods-Gerry Gallery, all in Providence, RI. He has created performances in Providence, New York City and Virginia. His online work has been archived by Rhizome.org. Mandiberg's work has been covered in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Berliner Zeitung and the Industry Standard. "Shop Mandiberg" was recently included in the Thaw 01 Festival at the University of Iowa Art Museum. On April 27th, 2001 Mandiberg will present the Shop Mandiberg Quarterly Report at the University of Virginia School of Art.