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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, and Vžigalica gallery</font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> kindly invite you to the<font
size="3"> opening of the exhibition:</font></font> <br>
<font size="3"><b><br>
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG </b></font> <br>
<big><font size="4"><big><i><b>Fuck the Systsem</b></i></big></font></big>
<br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/systsem">www.aksioma.org/systsem</a></font>
<br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="background:
none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><br>
</span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Museum
and
Galleries of Ljubljana,</span></b></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="background:
none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Vžigalica gallery</span></b><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">, Trg
francoske revolucije 7, Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="background:
none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">August 18<sup>th</sup> –
September 9<sup>th </sup>2011</span></font>
<p style="margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">Opening: Thursday, August 18<sup>th </sup>2011
at 8pm</span></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight:
normal;" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><b>New publication: </b></span></span></font><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/systsem/pdf/aks_brochure_11_fuck_the_systsem.pdf">Aksioma
brochure
#11</a><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">,
Ljubljana 2011</span></font><span style="background: none
repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><br>
“<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">Fuck the systsem! And the illiterate! Vuk
Ćosić talks to Eva and Franco Mattes aka
0100101110101101.ORG”<br>
</font></font></span></p>
<br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Net art, online
performances, pranks and false identities by Eva and Franco
Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG, reveal the hidden and
repressed characteristics of the individual hidden behind a
computer. In virtual worlds and parallel realities, in the
cyborg [human + computer], at the very end, they discover a
ghost, which runs the symbiotic machine and which is, after
all, (nothing but) a primate = irritable, competitive,
egocentric and many other things. In the present exhibition
entitled </font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3"><i>Fuck the Systsem</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">, we will be
presented with four provocative online and public actions,
whose mutual interest is the “game” as a civilisational and
cultural achievement.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">The artistic pair has played all types of games
(following Roger Caillois: competition, gambling, mimicry,
excitement). In the project </font></font><font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Plan C*</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> (2010), the couple
and their collaborators set up an action in three acts:
arrival in Ukraine, investigation of Chernobyl, and transfer
of material to Manchester. The game </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Plan C</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> was ostensibly a
prank; however, it was actually perfectly serious and full of
adrenalin. In the video and photo documentation of the second
part of the action, the artists wearing white protective
clothing investigated the abandoned remains of an amusement
park with merry-go-rounds and electric cars. According to
Caillois, circuses belong to the type of games that anticipate
risk, which always entails the decisive punishment for the
acrobat – death. In the last part of the project </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Plan C</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">, the artists
transferred a merry-go-round from Ukraine to Great Britain;
however, nobody took the potential risk of the object
seriously.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
size="3">The works </font></font><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font size="3"><i>My Generation</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> (2010) and </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Freedom</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> (2010) explore the
deterioration of the game, caused by the breaking of the rules
of the game or the player’s digressions. </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>Freedom</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> is an online
performance, in which the Mattes entered a shoot-out videogame
to engage other players in establishing a discourse about
another reality – contemporary art. Their attempt was a
complete failure. Heavily armed commandos had erased them from
the game even before the performance could have started. This
raised the question of the identity of the people on the other
side of the screen, who control the avatars. Therefore, using
found footage from the internet, the Mattes compiled a
shocking video work </font></font><font face="Times New
Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>My Generation</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">, which shows
people during fits of rage after they have lost a game. They
take games too seriously. They have lost all sense of an
“extra-game” reality, and their obsession harms intimate and
familial relationships, it leads to keyboards being broken,
monitors being spat on, etc.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.14in; line-height: 0.19in;"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">In the video work </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><i>No Fun</i></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> (2010), Franco
Mattes dangled from the ceiling as a suicide victim to
register the reactions of casual visitors to the website
Chatroulette, that is otherwise being used for video chats
between (often coincidental) visitors. Many interlocutors were
shocked; however, the most shocking reactions were those of
the people who were totally indifferent. For in the field of
virtual reality, there is very little awareness of death,
which is a natural and inevitable part of digital life. Death,
not only as a political protest against corporate web
environments (YouTube banned the screening of the video), but
also as a consequence of a defect in the vital functions of a
human organism or a hard drive.</font></font></p>
<font size="2"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;"><big>*Plan C is a project by Ryan C Doyle, Eva and
Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG with the collaboration
of film makers Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark, photographer Tod
Seelie and fabricator Steve Valdez. Plan C was originally
commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Dispari&Dispari
Project.</big></span></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.14in;" align="LEFT"><b>Download
the full text by Ida Hiršenfelder <a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/systsem/pdf/ida_hirsenfelder_fuck_the_systsem_eng.pdf">here</a>.<br>
</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 0.14in;" align="LEFT"><b><br>
</b> </p>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Production:
</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011</font>
<br>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">Artistic director: Janez Janša</font></font> <br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">Executive producer: Marcela Okretič</font></font>
<br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">Public relations</span></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">: Mojca Zupanič</span></span></font></font> <br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">Technical support: Atila Boštjančič</font></font>
<br>
<br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Co-production:</b>
<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Museum
and
Galleries of Ljubljana</span></font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Supported
by</b> the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and
the Municipality of Ljubljana<span lang="sl-SI"><i><b><br>
</b></i></span><span lang="sl-SI"><i><span style="font-weight:
normal;">Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</span></i></span></font>
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</font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Contact:</b></font>
<br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Marcela Okretič, 041 250
830, <a href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a></font>
<br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Aksioma | Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Neubergerjeva 25, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia</font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360</font>
<br>
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">www.aksioma.org</span></span></font></font></a></u></span></font>
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