[spectre] Go!Go!Go! by Aram Bartholl at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana

[Aksioma]

*Aram Bartholl*
*Go!Go!Go!*
Solo exhibition
*
Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.aksioma.org/gogogo <http://www.aksioma.org/gogogo>

On display through March 22, 2013

Artist presentation: https://vimeo.com/61460216


Aksioma Project Space is pleased to announce Go!Go!Go!, the first solo 
show of Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl in Ljubljana. The title of the 
show points to the processual, collaborative and open nature of 
Bartholl's work, which often implies processes that develop over a 
longer period of time, but through many different releases and at a very 
high rate. Bartholl adopts the "release fast, release often and with rap 
music" strategy of the open source and hacker community, aptly 
implemented by the F.A.T. Lab - a collaborative platform he is part of. 
This allows him to keep the pace with reality and to work on projects 
that combine instant commentary with a deeper speculation on universal 
issues.

This is what happens in Dust, the project at the core of this show. With 
this long-term project, the artist seeks to create a 1:1 scale replica 
of one of the most played computer game maps in the world: 'de_dust', 
the most popular map in the infamous first person shooter game Counter 
Strike. The replica will be produced as a permanent "building" made of 
concrete, which will make this map accessible as a large scale public 
sculpture. The project, which received a Rhizome Commissions grant in 
2011 for the development of its starting phase, is now in its second 
phase, which includes the making of 1:1 scale replicas of portions of 
the map, in different places all over the world; thus, the project is 
being disseminated as a land art intervention that materialises portions 
of virtual public space in the real world.

For the exhibition in Ljubljana, Bartholl - in collaboration with 
Aksioma - will use concrete to build a 1:1 scale replica of three 
stacked wooden crates at an undisclosed location near Postojna. 
Documentation of the intervention will be available at the show together 
with plans and models (1:100 scale) of Dust. Made of different 
materials, machine produced and hand crafted, the models represent the 
first step in physical cultural heritage of the computer game age.

The main project will be accompanied by other recent works that 
thematise the relationships between net data space and public everyday 
life. In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our 
everyday life? What returns into physical space from cyberspace? How do 
digital innovations influence our everyday actions? These and other 
questions are raised by works such as: Open Internet (2012), a public 
intervention and light installation in which coloured LED signs, 
commonly used in stores, are combined and given a new purpose of 
delivering a message of freedom and openness; 15 Seconds of Fame (2009), 
a photo series in which the artist follows (and is shot by) a Google 
Street View car crossing the Berlin Mitte, playfully turning an inflamed 
public debate about privacy and surveillance into a spontaneous, joyful, 
over-affirmative act of self-exposure; video documentation of the F.A.T. 
Lab's public intervention How to Build a Fake Google Street View Car 
(2010), in which a fake Google car was made and sent around Berlin 
during the transmediale festival; and First Person Shooter (2006), a 
postcard that is also a do-it-yourself kit with instructions how to make 
a pair of glasses bearing the arm with the weapon, which represent the 
player in most First Person Shooter games.

Finally, the show at Aksioma Project Space will be the occasion to 
install some "dead drops" in Ljubljana, thus contributing to the 
anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space 
started by Bartholl in 2010, when he installed the first dead drop in 
New York. A dead drop is a USB flash drive installed in public space 
(usually in a wall) where anybody can drop and take data. Anybody can 
install one. Since the launch of the project, more than a thousand dead 
drops have been set up all around the world.

Aram Bartholl (www.datenform.de) is a member of the Internet-based art 
group Free Art and Technology Lab - F.A.T. Lab. Net politics, DIY 
movement and the development of the Internet in general play an 
important role in his work. Beside numerous lectures, workshops and 
performances, Bartholl has exhibited at MoMA Museum of Modern Art (New 
York), The Pace Gallery (New York), [DAM] Berlin and xpo gallery 
(Paris). He lives and works in Berlin.


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

Artistic Director: Janez Jans(a
Text: Domenico Quaranta
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanic(
Technician: Valter Udovic(ic'

Thanks: Damijan Valenc(ic(


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 Okretic(
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana *
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija

*Aksioma | Project Space*
Komenskega 18, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
phone: + 386 -- (0)590 54360
gsm: + 386 -- (0)41 -- 250830
e-mail: aksioma4 at siol.net
www.aksioma.org
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