FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art opens a new production and
exhibition space*
Monday, April 4, 2011 at 7 pm
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
<www.aksioma.org>
After almost a decade of its existence Aksioma |Institute for
Contemporary Arts is opening a Project Space in the city centre of
Ljubljana, Slovenia. The space is to connect and facilitate the
institute's own production as well as artistic practices and diverse
new-media art projects which have the need for an exhibition space. The
focal point of the programme is going to be dedicated to hacking the
role of mass media in contemporary society through various artistic
mediums interpreting its narratives in subversive, critical, or ironic
manner. We are highly challenged by the status of an art gallery space
in a world where access to digital technologies offers a radically
rethinking of such institutions, promoting an immediate real-time
experience of art where the Project Space ideally functions merely as a
physical space where things are made visible and not necessarily the
end-product of artistic articulation.
OPENING SHOW
*
Trevor Paglen *
/*A Hidden Landscape*
/April 4 - 22, 2011
Trevor Paglen is going to mark the opening of the new Aksioma Project
Space with a very concise exhibition of four projects from his
wide-spread artistic research on landscapes and phenomena that are
hidden from the public view and work in the heterogeneous interests of
the state apparatus. He is going to show a selection from his work
/Symbology/ (2006), in which he has collected a wide range of perplexing
symbols and insignia that signify secret military operations, various
units, command affiliations, and programmes, by which members of these
programmes are able to identify one another. The patches represent a
distinguished military culture, marked by an explicitly gaudy taste, in
which the "Pentagon's 'black world' is replete with the rich symbolic
language that characterises other, less obscure, military activities".
The second work at the exhibition, /Missing Persons/ (2006), is going to
present another by-product of secret activities, which only insinuates
the highly dubious activities of the CIA, for which it has created a
wide-spread list of fake names to cover up the trail of their agents.
Since the mid-nineties, the CIA has been wildly active in kidnapping,
detaining and torturing people who were suspected of terrorism all
around the world and it has brought them to a network of secret prisons
referred to as "black sited". For their activities, the CIA has used
unmarked aeroplanes, which are owned by intricate networks of front
companies whose boards of directors are composed of non-existent people.
The /Missing Persons/project is a collection of their signatures culled
from business records, aircraft registrations, and corporate filings.
Connected to both of these works is the project /Code Names/, which
lists words, phrases, and terms that designate active military programs
whose existence or purpose is classified ranging from intelligence
programmes to military operations, and secret identities and fake
companies. The forth project is going to present selected works from the
/Limit Telephotography/ project, which unveil the geographies of
classified military bases and facilities that are off-limits to the
general public. In this piece, in which the artist uses highly magnified
photographic technology that closely resembles astrophotography, the
artist reveals highly grained blurred images of secret geographies,
which seem so far as if they did not belong to the same dimension.
_BROCHURE_ _[.pdf] _
/Contradictions of the Hidden Landscapes
/Ida Hirs(enfelder - Interview with Trevor Paglen
Download _here
<http://www.aksioma.org/hidden-landscape/pdf/aks_brochure_08_paglen.pdf>_
_CREDITS_
Author: Trevor Paglen
Lender of the artworks: Galerie Thomas Zander
Artistic director: Janez Jans(a
Technician: Valter Udovic(ic'
Production and organization: _Aksioma <http://www.aksioma.org/>_*| *
<http://www.aksioma.org/>_Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
<http://www.aksioma.org/>_, 2011
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretic( and Janez Jans(a
Supported by _The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
<http://www.mk.gov.si/en/>_and _the City of Ljubljana - Department of
Culture <http://www.ljubljana.si/en/>_
Thanks: Marco Deseriis, Marko Peljhan, Christina Mey
*
Contact:*
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
phone:+ 386 -- (0)591 -- 90876
gsm:+ 386 -- (0)41 -- 250669
e-mail:**[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>_
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
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