[spectre] The Complete Beatles by Conny Blom at Aksioma Project Space

[Aksioma]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, presents:
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Conny Blom
/The Complete Beatles/*
/Installation/
www.aksioma.org/complete.beatles <http://www.aksioma.org/complete.beatles>

Aksioma | Project Space
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
6 – 22 February 2013

*Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 7 pm*
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Parallel to the intensified blood hunt for file sharers, the music 
industry is screaming for strengthened copyright laws, under the pretext 
that it is to protect the creators (musicians, artists, writers). In 
actual case, it is obviously to protect their own interests that the 
major record labels try to throw a spanner into the works for both 
development and creativity. With the current laws it would be impossible 
for genres like jazz and rock music to emerge since what has always been 
an integral part of musical development, namely references, borrowings 
and paraphrases, no longer is possible without financial backing from 
the major players of the music industry. Instead of investing money in 
trying to keep up with the technical development the money is spent on 
lobbying to convince politicians and legislators that it is necessary to 
litigate against both file sharing and any creator who gets the idea to 
borrow to create something new. Few others have been protected more 
fiercely in this way than an old pop band from Liverpool, who themselves 
were borrowing a lot from old blues tunes. We are of course speaking of 
The Beatles, and said band is also one of the reasons why we now see the 
copyright for recordings being prolonged.

In the installation /The Complete Beatles/ the artist Conny Blom is 
symbolically challenging the music industry as his 8 channel sound 
installation consists in its entirety of music recorded by the British 
band. As a matter of fact, every second of the officially released 
studio recordings by The Beatles is included in the piece, but none of 
the songs can be recognised. Each individual track is looped and played 
simultaneously, so that at any given moment of the continuous sound one 
can hear all of The Beatles’ studio recordings. The sound shifts as one 
walks through the room and comes closer to individual speakers. The 
overtones shimmer and vibrate. The production on the earlier and later 
albums differs and this is noticeable even though not a single note of 
the original music can be identified. This is not about sampling – The 
Beatles production is presented in its entirety – but is it The Beatles 
that we are hearing?

*Conny Blom* is an artist currently based in Sweden. With a background 
as an art historian and Master degree in Fine Arts, Blom deals with the 
defining issues of our modern society, our living conditions and the 
rights of the individual versus the society and the economical forces. 
Trying to balance between the poetic and the subversive, Blom uses 
material from pop culture as well as iconic pieces of contemporary art 
to comment, question and subvert established hierarchies. By focusing on 
the otherwise overlooked, the in-between, and the unseen, reediting it 
into new aesthetic experiences, Blom aims to provide new perspectives 
and bring into light previously untold stories.

*Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2013
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>


/*The exhibition is produced with support by Iaspis, the Swedish Arts 
Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists.*/
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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:*
Marcela Okretič, +386 41 250 830, aksioma4 at siol.net
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>/
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