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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of info Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:04 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: [NetBehaviour] MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL by Christin Lahr at Aksioma Project Space Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana presents: Christin Lahr MACHT GESCHENKE*: DAS KAPITAL - A Critique of Political Economy Solo exhibition http://www.aksioma.org/das.kapital Aksioma | Project Space Komenskega 18, Ljubljana 19 September - 5 October 2012 Artist's presentation and exhibition opening: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 7 pm Performance: MACHT GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 from 8 pm - 10 pm Thursday, 20 and Friday, 21 September 2012 from 12 pm - 6 pm Images available for free download: www.aksioma.org/press/daskapital.zip ---------- Donation to the Federal Republic of Germany; daily transfer of Capital to the Federal Ministry of Finance, 2009 - ca. 2052 Since May 31, 2009 Christin Lahr has been transferring one cent a day to the German Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing mountain of debt in homeopathic doses. In the „reason for payment“ field, she always writes 108 characters from Capital by Marx. Bit by bit, the entire text of the book will be transferred into the state's central account via online banking. The transmission of the roughly 15,709 cents and 1,696,500 characters will take about 43 years. The increase in value of the capital investment is not even included, nor are the required labor and lifetime or the added value through cultural and symbolic capital calculated into this. Due to the exponential effects of interest and compound interest, her donation will be able to pay off the national debt of 31 May 2009, 1,746,599,197,210 Euro, within 300 years. CAPITAL, which inscribes itself irrevocably into accounts and archives, is a donation to the entire people, entered into the state budget, administered by the currently elected representatives, safely stored at the Bundesbank. Each of the money transfers is documented by a screenshot, printed out once, signed, and given away to individual citizens. In “over-subscriptions” on translucent paper, she crosses out character by character and thus produces an unreadable notation of “Capital”, consisting of counting marks and numerals. The work counteracts the ruling political economy and senseless, degrading bureaucratism with the gesture of giving, and poses the question of meaning. The system sees itself in a mirror. Once a day, the micro-donations upset the state’s balance sheet. They triggers a sustained debate on values that produces continuous reflections and echoes. For three days during the exhibition period (19 - 21 Sept 2012) the artist will be taking over the chair of Zoran Janković - the mayor of Ljubljana, working at a capital desk at Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, exposing bureaucratic structures, delivering an illustrative insight into the cultivation of capital, communicating with the public and performing: MACHT GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL The project received the PRIXARS 2011, AWARD OF DISTINCTION (HYBRID ART), as well as TRANSMEDIALE AWARD 2011, DISTINCTION, in recognition of the outstanding critical and visionary value of arts. *The German title MACHT GESCHENKE is a play on words implying “CREATE GIFTS”, or “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS” Christin Lahr (1965, Munich) lives and works as an artist, curator and professor for Media Art in Berlin and Leipzig. She has received several scholarships and awards and exhibited in Germany and abroad. Since 1990 she has been teaching at different universities as well as curating shows for instance at the RealismusStudio of NGBK Berlin. Since 2001 Lahr is a Professor for Media Art at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. More information at: http://www.macht-geschenke.de Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012 www.aksioma.org Artistic Director: Janez Janša Executive Producer: Marcela Okretič Assistant Production: Sonja Grdina Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič Technician: Valter Udovičić The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o. Contact: Mojca Zupanič, [email protected] Marcela Okretič, [email protected] Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia www.aksioma.org -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery & Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
