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Aksioma, a non-profit cultural organisation based in Ljubljana, was co-founded in [[Established::2002]] by Davide Grassi. It is interested in producing, presenting and developing projects that take advantage of new technologies and protocols in order to investigate and discuss the structures of modern society. It collaborates internationally with several artists, museums, institutions, foundations, galleries and festivals.
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[[Aksioma Institute]], a non-profit cultural organisation based in Ljubljana, was co-founded in [[Established::2002]] by Davide Grassi. It is interested in producing, presenting and developing projects that take advantage of new technologies and protocols in order to investigate and discuss the structures of modern society. It concentrates on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns and collaborates internationally with several artists, museums, institutions, foundations, galleries and festivals.
 
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Janez Janša (his former name being Davide Grassi) is a media artist, performer and producer of Italian origins who has been living and working in Ljubljana since 1995. His artistic work has strong social connotations and is characterised by an inter-media approach. Janša is the author of numerous videos, performances, installations, documentaries and media projects, among them ''I Need Money to Be an Artist'' (1996), ''Brainscore - Incorporeal Communication'' (with Darij Kreuh, 2000), ''Problemarket.com - the Problem Stock Exchange'' (with Igor Štromajer, 2001), ''MachinaZOIS - Your Electromechanical Patron!'' (2003) and ''DemoKino - Virtual Biopolitical Agora'' (2003-06). Recent productions include the projects ''Brainloop'', ''The Satellite Night's Heat'', the platform ''RE-act!'' and ''DK Radio''.
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Known on its vigorous production and co-production realised in Slovenia and abroad, pays the Aksioma Institute since last few years special attention on the series of project connected with the change of names. Within the  project ''Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav'' the director of the Institute Aksioma [[Davide Grassi]] and his colleagues [[Emil Hrvatin]] and [[Žiga Kariž]] legally took in 2007 the first and the last name of then actual Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia Janez Janša with the grotesque aim to "confront with the tragic in the work of the biopower." Since then [[Janez Janša]], [[Janez Janša]], and [[Janez Janša]] developed project further and present it also as the performance ''Signature Event Context'' on the Transmediale 2008 in Berlin. In the same year the exhibition curated by Zdenka Badovinac entitled ''NAME - Readymade'' was featured in the frame of the Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Art in Graz. Recently, in the April 2010 the project got its continuation in the Künstlerhaus Brut in Wien, where two Janez Janša (meanwhile one artist renamed himself back to his origin identity) as regisuers prepared theatre experiment ''If there will be more of us, the goal will be reached sooner'' [Več nas bo, prej bomo na cilju]. The documentary performance includes beside statements of artists also statements of known Slovene theorists and politicians as Miro Cerar, Blaž Lukan, Ilinka Todorovski, Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti, Veso Stojanov, Mladen Dolar, and Janez Janša. The project refers itself on the judicial, economical and intimae dimensions of the renaming with the aim to requisition the topics of identity, identification, multiplication of the name.
  
As artist-in-residence, Janša lectures and leads workshops at universities and contemporary art institutes. Grassi has presented his work at the [[Manifesta]] 4 European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Frankfurt, Germany; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; ARCO, Madrid, Spain; ISEA 2002, Nagoya, Japan; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil; List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, USA; IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden; the Slovene Museum of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; and Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
 
  
Janša is a co-founder (1999) and member of the Collective [[Bast]] as well as of the open research platform for interventions in public spaces, SilentCell Network (2003 - [http://www.silentcellnetwork.org http://www.silentcellnetwork.org]).
 
 
See the entry for Grassi at [http://www.culturebase.net http://www.culturebase.net]
 
  
 
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Aksioma Institute, a non-profit cultural organisation based in Ljubljana, was co-founded in 2002 by Davide Grassi. It is interested in producing, presenting and developing projects that take advantage of new technologies and protocols in order to investigate and discuss the structures of modern society. It concentrates on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns and collaborates internationally with several artists, museums, institutions, foundations, galleries and festivals.


Projects

Known on its vigorous production and co-production realised in Slovenia and abroad, pays the Aksioma Institute since last few years special attention on the series of project connected with the change of names. Within the project Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav the director of the Institute Aksioma Davide Grassi and his colleagues Emil Hrvatin and Žiga Kariž legally took in 2007 the first and the last name of then actual Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia Janez Janša with the grotesque aim to "confront with the tragic in the work of the biopower." Since then Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša developed project further and present it also as the performance Signature Event Context on the Transmediale 2008 in Berlin. In the same year the exhibition curated by Zdenka Badovinac entitled NAME - Readymade was featured in the frame of the Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Art in Graz. Recently, in the April 2010 the project got its continuation in the Künstlerhaus Brut in Wien, where two Janez Janša (meanwhile one artist renamed himself back to his origin identity) as regisuers prepared theatre experiment If there will be more of us, the goal will be reached sooner [Več nas bo, prej bomo na cilju]. The documentary performance includes beside statements of artists also statements of known Slovene theorists and politicians as Miro Cerar, Blaž Lukan, Ilinka Todorovski, Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti, Veso Stojanov, Mladen Dolar, and Janez Janša. The project refers itself on the judicial, economical and intimae dimensions of the renaming with the aim to requisition the topics of identity, identification, multiplication of the name.


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