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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>RE:akt!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>curated by: Domenico Quaranta<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.reakt.org/">www.reakt.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Rotovž Exhibition Salon, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maribor</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Art</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallery</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Trg Leona Štuklja 2, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Maribor</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Slovenia</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>21 October – 19 November 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Exhibition opening: 21 October 2010 at 19:00<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Featured artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, IOCOSE, Irwin, Janez
Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka
0100101110101101.ORG), OHO group, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Janša,
Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Publication available at the gallery<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.reakt.org/book">www.reakt.org/book</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, <st1:City w:st="on">Ljubljana</st1:City>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maribor</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Art</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallery</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
are proud to announce “RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting”, the
exhibition of the works realized in the last three years within the platform
“RE:akt!”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>During recent years the term re-enactment and the practices it refers
to have enjoyed increasing success in the artistic context. On one hand, the
success of re-enactment appears to be connected to a parallel, vigorous return
to performance art, both as a genre practiced by the new generations, and as an
artistic practice with its own historicization. On the other hand the term
re-enactment accompanies two phenomena that at least at first glance have very
little in common: re-staging artistic performances of the past, and revisiting,
in performance form, “real” events – be they linked to history or current
affairs, past or present.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting” tries both to
research on the complexity of this concept and to get rid of it, approaching
re-enactment not merely as “live action role-playing” or “living history” but
rather as a strategy for cultural critique, analysis and artistic expression.
“RE:akt!” – meaning not only “to act again” but also “to respond to / to react
upon” and “Regarding: act!”– confronts current ideological and intellectual
canons, power structures, policies, and distribution channels by re-enacting
selected historical and culturally relevant events. Through processes of
analysis, deconstruction, re-enactment and re-reporting, the intermedia
research and presentation project “RE:akt!” examines media’s roles in
manipulating perceptions and creating postmodern historical myths and
contemporary mythology.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thus, “RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting”, curated by
the Italian art critic and curator Domenico Quaranta, will collect ten
different approaches to the concept of enaction: <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>from Ich Lubbe <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place>!</span></i>
(2005, SilentCell Network), a take on the 1933 burning of the Reichstag
building in Berlin, which explores the contemporary meaning of symbols such as
the Reichstag itself, and of concepts such as “communism” and “terrorism”; to <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Das KAPITAL</span></i> (2006, Janez Janša), a
performance which re-stages the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw
Pact forces with the languages of popular street artists; from <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>C'était un rendez-vous (déja vu)</span></i> (Janez
Janša in collaboration with Quentin Drouet), a project that plays with the
paradigmatic history of a well known artwork, the film <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>C'était un rendez-vous </span></i>by Claude Lelouch,
from “cinema verité” to “media fiction”; to <i><span style='font-style:italic'>VD
as VB</span></i> (2007), a series of actions in which Vaginal Davis, the
“grande dame” of the queer underground in Los Angeles, dialogues with Vanessa
Beecroft's performances. In <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Mount Triglav on
Mount Triglav</span></i> (2007), the three artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and
Janez Janša re-stage a well known performance of the OHO group from the late
Sixties, recently appropriated by the IRWIN group for their<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Like to Like Series</span></i> (2004), performing it
on the Mount Triglav itself, and then translating it into a monumental golden
sculpture; while in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Slovene National Theatre</span></i>
(2007), Janez Janša translates an infamous fact of recent racism against
Gypsies – known in Slovenia as “the Ambrus case” - into a piece of theatre,
re-invoicing it as it was featured by the mass media. In their <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Synthetic Performances</span></i> (2007), Eva and
Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG reenact on the virtual platform of
Second Life a series of historical performances that are all but virtual,
raising issues such as body, violence, sex and pain, thus exploring the meaning
of these very issues in a virtual world. In <i><span style='font-style:italic'>SS-XXX
| Die Frau Helga</span></i> (2007), Janez Janša (in collaboration with Dejan
Dragosavac Ruta) again adds details and proofs of evidence to an “urban legend”
recently circulated on the Net and mainstream media, concerning the presumed
creation of a cyber-sex doll by the Nazis. Thus, performance and reenactment
are far from being the only strategies adopted in “RE:akt!”, which also
involves strategies such as documentation, remix, re-invoicement,
reconstruction and remediation (such as in the project <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Day São Paulo Stopped</span></i> 2009 by Brazilian
artist Lucas Bambozzi), and media such as photographic print, video, media
installation and even architecture (such as in the project <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Il porto dell'amore</span></i>, by Janez Janša (in
collaboration with Bor Pungerčič), an homage to Fiume as an example of pirate
utopia). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On the occasion of the show in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Maribor</st1:City></st1:place>,
there will be the world preview of the last work produced within the platform
“RE:akt!”:<i><span style='font-style:italic'> In the Long Run</span></i>
(2010), by the collective IOCOSE. The work – a fake TV obituary of the pop star
Madonna – develop the premises of the platform in an unexpected, yet necessary,
way: the premediation of future events. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In 2009 RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting has been
displayed at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Romania, the
ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Rijeka, Croatia.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>FREE IMAGES FOR PRESS and MORE INFO:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.reakt.org/press">www.reakt.org/press</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Curated by Domenico Quaranta<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Plaform conceived by Janez Janša <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ljubljana</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.aksioma.org/">www.aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Co-production: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maribor</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Art</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallery</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.ugm.si/">http://www.ugm.si</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Slovenia</st1:PlaceName>, the Municipality of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ljubljana</st1:place></st1:City> and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>the European Cultural Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ljubljana</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ljubljana</st1:place></st1:City>,
Slovenija<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>gsm : +386 – (0)41 250 830<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Unsuscribe: <a href="mailto:unsuscribe@aksioma.org">unsuscribe@aksioma.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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