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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma
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Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you to
the lecture and exhibition opening:</font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
<br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>Rod Dickinson </b><span
style="font-weight: normal;">in collaboration with </span><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Steve Rushton</span></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><big><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><big><i><b>Closed
Circuit</b></i></big></font></big> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><i>Video installation</i></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/closed_circuit/index.html"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">www.aksioma.org/closed_circuit</span></span></span></font></a></font>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><b>Aksioma | Project Space</b></font> <font face="Times
New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia</font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">7 – 28 September 2011</font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">Lecture and exhibition opening: Wednesday<font
size="3">, 7 September 2011</font></span></b></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><b>at 20:00</b><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">----------</font><b><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
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</span></span></font></b> <font color="#000000" face="Times
New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>'Closed
Circuit' </b></font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>by Rod Dickinson in
collaboration with Steve Rushton</b></font></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Closed Circuit is a new video
installation by Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve
Rushton.</font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Set in a meticulously
constructed press conference environment, two actors deliver a
simulated government briefing.</font></font> <font face="Times
New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The script of Closed Circuit
was written in collaboration with writer Steve Rushton, and is
composed solely of fragments of press statements and speeches
delivered since the Cold War. The script focuses on the way in
which similar declarations have been used by numerous
governments - across continents and spanning the ideological
divide - to declare and maintain states of crisis and emergency.</font></font>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The fragments are woven
together irrespective of context and date - the only change to
the original material is to remove any specific mention of
people, places and dates. Consequently, the who, what, where,
when, why and how are removed from the spoken text.</font></font>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The viewer is drawn into the
speech by the seamless and forceful delivery of the actors,
whilst the documentary sources of the script are revealed
simultaneously on two presidential style autocues which display
the scrolling script of the speech and expose it’s repetitive,
fragmentary and modular structure.</font></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The political speech and
government press briefing are long-established tools for the
management of crises, emergencies and conflict in democratic
societies. Whether used as a mechanism propagating government
policy or for raising a nation’s morale, the speech and press
briefing are tried-and-trusted strategies from which politics is
staged.</font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Since the beginning of the
televisual age, the government briefing has become locked into
the circuitry of television and real time media. Just as the
crisis is always in the present, the live-ness of television
calls the present forward and this in turn shapes political and
social reality.</font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">The video installation </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Closed
Circuit</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> derives from the
performance, co-produced by the institute Aksioma and the
institute Bunker, which was staged as part of the
international festival Mladi levi in August 2010.</span></font><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><b>ABOUT
THE AUTHORS</b></font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rod
Dickinson’s</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> work explores
ideas of belief and social control. Using detailed research
into moments of the past and present, he has made a series
of meticulously re-enacted events that represent both the
mechanisms that enable belief, and the social systems that
underpin much human behaviour. His previous works include a
recreation of Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 social
psychology experiment Obedience to Authority (The Milgram
Re-enactment, 2002), and a recreation of the media
surrounding a bomb attack on Greenwich Observatory in 1894
(Greenwich Degree Zero, 2006).</span></span></font></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Steve
Rushton</b></span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is a writer
and editor based in Rotterdam. Rushton’s publications
include </span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Experience,
Memory,
Re-enactment</span></i></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, 2005
(co-editor); </span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;">The Milgram Re-enactment</span></i></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, 2003
(editor). He writes essays and stories for artists’
publications and contributes regularly to </span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;">DotDotDot</span></i></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Recent
projects include the exhibition </span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;">After Neurath: Like Sailors
on the Open Sea</span></i></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, Stroom, The
Hague, 2006-07. He is a co-founder of the research group
</span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Signal:
Noise</span></i></span></font><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">, which investigates the
prevalence of notions of feedback in contemporary
culture.</span></span></span></font></font><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><b>Production: </b>Aksioma –Institute for Contemporary <span
lang="en-GB">Art</span>, Ljubljana, 2011</font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><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>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Artistic director: Janez Janša</font></font>
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</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Executive producer: Marcela
Okretič</font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><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> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="sl-SI"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Technical support: Valter
Udovičić</span></span></font></font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Assistants: Anže Grm, Sonja
Grdina</font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><b>Supported by the University of the West of England,
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana.</b></font> <font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><b>Sponsor: </b></span><span
lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Datacenter
d.o.o.</span></span></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><b>Thanks: </b>Kapelica gallery</font><font face="Times
New Roman">, Moderna galerija</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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</font> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Contact</span>:</font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Marcela Okretič, 041 250 830, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a></font>
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size="2"><b>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font>
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman"
size="2">tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360</font> <font face="Times
New Roman"><br>
</font><font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size:
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