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<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!</font><br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Aksioma | Institute for
Contemporary Art opens a new production and exhibition space</b></font></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Monday, April 4,
2011 at 7 pm</font><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Komenskega 18,
Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>
</font></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
class="western" href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></font></a></u></span></font><a
href="www.aksioma.org"> <br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">After
almost a decade of its existence Aksioma </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">|</font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"> Institute
for Contemporary Arts is opening a Project Space in the city
centre of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The space is to connect and
facilitate the institute’s own production as well as artistic
practices and diverse new-media art projects which have the need
for an exhibition space. The focal point of the programme is
going to be dedicated to hacking the role of mass media in
contemporary society through various artistic mediums
interpreting its narratives in subversive, critical, or ironic
manner. We are highly challenged by the status of an art gallery
space in a world where access to digital technologies offers a
radically rethinking of such institutions, promoting an
immediate real-time experience of art where the Project Space
ideally functions merely as a physical space where things are
made visible and not necessarily the end-product of artistic
articulation. </font></font> <font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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OPENING SHOW</font></font></font> <font face="Times New
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><b><br>
Trevor Paglen </b></font><br>
<i><font size="4"><b>A Hidden Landscape</b></font><br>
</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">April 4 -
22, 2011</font></font><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font
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Trevor Paglen is going to mark the opening of the new Aksioma
Project Space with a very concise exhibition of four projects
from his wide-spread artistic research on landscapes and
phenomena that are hidden from the public view and work in the
heterogeneous interests of the state apparatus. He is going to
show a selection from his work <i>Symbology</i> (2006), in
which he has collected a wide range of perplexing symbols and
insignia that signify secret military operations, various
units, command affiliations, and programmes, by which members
of these programmes are able to identify one another. The
patches represent a distinguished military culture, marked by
an explicitly gaudy taste, in which the “Pentagon’s ‘black
world’ is replete with the rich symbolic language that
characterises other, less obscure, military activities”. The
second work at the exhibition, <i>Missing Persons</i> (2006),
is going to present another by-product of secret activities,
which only insinuates the highly dubious activities of the
CIA, for which it has created a wide-spread list of fake names
to cover up the trail of their agents. Since the mid-nineties,
the CIA has been wildly active in kidnapping, detaining and
torturing people who were suspected of terrorism all around
the world and it has brought them to a network of secret
prisons referred to as “black sited”. For their activities,
the CIA has used unmarked aeroplanes, which are owned by
intricate networks of front companies whose boards of
directors are composed of non-existent people. The </font><em><font
size="3">Missing Persons</font></em><font size="3"> project
is a collection of their signatures culled from business
records, aircraft registrations, and corporate filings.
Connected to both of these works is the project <i>Code Names</i>,
which lists words, phrases, and terms that designate active
military programs whose existence or purpose is classified
ranging from intelligence programmes to military operations,
and secret identities and fake companies. The forth project is
going to present selected works from the <i>Limit
Telephotography</i> project, which unveil the geographies of
classified military bases and facilities that are off-limits
to the general public. In this piece, in which the artist uses
highly magnified photographic technology that closely
resembles astrophotography, the artist reveals highly grained
blurred images of secret geographies, which seem so far as if
they did not belong to the same dimension.</font></font></font>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font size="3"><u>BROCHURE</u></font>
<font size="3"><u>[.pdf] </u></font></font></font> <font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font> <i><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Contradictions of the Hidden Landscapes</font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font></i><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Ida Hiršenfelder - Interview with Trevor Paglen</font></font>
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</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font size="3">Download </font><font
color="#0000ff"><u><a class="western"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/hidden-landscape/pdf/aks_brochure_08_paglen.pdf"><font
size="3">here</font></a></u></font></font></font> <font
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><u>CREDITS</u></font></font>
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style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font size="3">Author: </font><font
size="3">Trevor Paglen</font><font size="3"><br>
</font><font size="3">Lender of the artworks: </font><font
size="3">Galerie Thomas Zander</font><font size="3"><br>
</font><font size="3">Artistic director: </font><font size="3">Janez
Janša</font><font size="3"><br>
</font><font size="3">Technician: </font><font size="3">Valter
Udovičić</font><font size="3"><br>
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</font><font size="3">Production and organization: </font></font></font><font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><u><a class="western"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/" target="_blank"><font
size="3">Aksioma </font></a></u></font></font></font></font><a
class="western" href="http://www.aksioma.org/" target="_blank"><font
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>
| </b></font></font></a><font><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font
color="#0000ff"><u><a class="western"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/" target="_blank"><font
size="3">Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</font></a></u></font></font></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><font size="3">, 2011 </font><font size="3"><br>
</font><font size="3">Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič and
Janez Janša<br>
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</font><font size="3">Supported by </font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a
class="western" href="http://www.mk.gov.si/en/"
target="_blank"><font size="3">The Ministry of Culture of
the Republic of Slovenia</font></a></u></font><font
size="3"> and </font><font color="#0000ff"><u><a
class="western" href="http://www.ljubljana.si/en/"
target="_blank"><font size="3">the City of Ljubljana -
Department of Culture</font></a></u></font><font
size="3"><br>
</font><font size="3">Thanks: </font><font size="3">Marco
Deseriis, Marko Peljhan, Christina Mey</font><font size="3"><br>
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Contact:</font></font></big></b></small><br>
<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Aksioma
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Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2">Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</font><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2">phone:</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> + 386 – (0)591 – 90876</font><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2">gsm:</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> + 386 – (0)41 – 250669</font><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
size="2">e-mail:<b> </b></font></font><font color="#000080"
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