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Aksioma, Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 430 1511
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Aksioma Institute, a non-profit cultural organisation based in Ljubljana, was co-founded in 2002 by Davide Grassi, today known as Janez Janša. It produces, co-produces, presents and develops 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. Without its own exhibiting space it collaborates nationally and internationally with several artists, museums, institutions, foundations, galleries and festivals.


Projects

  • Janez Janša

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. Since than the NAME - Readymade was presented also in ArtLaboratoryBerlin, Škuc Gallery, HONF laboratory Yogyakarta (Indonesia) or in LASALLE College of the Arts, Faculty of Media Arts in Singapore. 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 produced in the cooperation of the Aksioma Institute, Maska Institute and Künstlerhaus Brut 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.


  • intermedia

The Aksioma Institute as producer and co-producer of intermedia projects collaborates with plenty of national and international institutions. One of most visible project developed and realized by Janez Janša as an author is the anti-entertainment interactive movie DemoKino Virtual Biopolitical Agora that "opens ways for a more direct and influential participation but also points out a much deeper problem of modern democracy (virtual as well)". Since 2004 it was shown in almost all Slovene institutions as KiBela Art Space in Maribor, on the 15th ediotion of the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe), Kapelica Gallery, Simulaker Gallery Novo Mesto or Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec. More than 30 presentations of the DemoKino includes also screenings on many important international events as the International Jerusalem Cinema Festival (Israel) in 2004 and spaces as MNAC - the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania (Bucharest) in 2005 or in Kino Arsenal in Berlin (Germany) to name realy just few of them. The DemoKino exists also as a book and as the dictatorial home session on DVD.

Aksioma works with some established foreign artists as with Michael Rakowitz and his project paraSITE. In 2009 the Institute organised the visit of German artists Julius von Bismarck in Slovenia and Croatia, where the project Image Fulgurator awarded in 2008 with the Golden Nica (the Interactive Art category at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz) recieved its continuation with the action in Ljubljana, Velenje, and Rijeka. As one week exhibition it was afterwards featured in the Kapelica Gallery.

  • performances

Beside the intermedia projects the Institute produced and co-produced almost 20 performances. It supports the work of Neven Korda and his dance and experimental theatre (Gospod Nahtingal, Letters from the Present, YYY or Echoes). Recently it produced experimental intermedia performance Parallel Digital Structure of Marko Batista, which happened in March 2010 in the Škuc Gallery. As producer the Aksioma supported recently also the performance Fiberoptikal including sound, video, text, music and a little bit of dancing and screaming of Luka Prinčič.



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