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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif"></span><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">presents:</span><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Christin Lahr</span><br
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</b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i>MACHT
GESCHENKE*: DAS KAPITAL</i></b> <i>- A Critique of
Political Economy</i></span><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Solo exhibition</span><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/das.kapital" target="_blank">http://www.aksioma.org/das.kapital</a></span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Aksioma |
Project Space</span></b><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Komenskega 18,
Ljubljana</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">19 September - 5
October 2012</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><strong>Artist's
presentation and exhibition opening:</strong> Wednesday, 19
September 2012 at 7 pm</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif"><br>
<strong>Performance:<em> MACHT GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL:</em></strong>
</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">Wednesday, 19 September 2012 from 8 pm - 10 pm</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">Thursday, 20 and Friday, 21 September 2012 from 12
pm - 6 pm</span><br>
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<b style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><font color="#000000"><span
style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Images available
for free download: </span></font><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/daskapital.zip"
target="_blank">www.aksioma.org/press/daskapital.zip</a></span></b><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Donation to the
Federal Republic of Germany; daily transfer of Capital to the
Federal Ministry of Finance, 2009 - ca. 2052</span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Since May 31, 2009
Christin Lahr has been transferring one cent a day to the German
Federal Ministry of Finance, thus helping to counter the growing
mountain of debt in homeopathic doses. In the „reason for
payment“ field, she always writes 108 characters from <i>Capital</i>
by Marx. Bit by bit, the entire text of the book will be
transferred into the state's central account via online banking.
The transmission of the roughly 15,709 cents and 1,696,500
characters will take about 43 years. The increase in value of
the capital investment is not even included, nor are the
required labor and lifetime or the added value through cultural
and symbolic capital calculated into this. Due to the
exponential effects of interest and compound interest, her
donation will be able to pay off the national debt of 31 May
2009, 1,746,599,197,210 Euro, within 300 years. </span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">CAPITAL, which
inscribes itself irrevocably into accounts and archives, is a
donation to the entire people, entered into the state budget,
administered by the currently elected representatives, safely
stored at the Bundesbank. Each of the money transfers is
documented by a screenshot, printed out once, signed, and given
away to individual citizens. In “over-subscriptions” on
translucent paper, she crosses out character by character and
thus produces an unreadable notation of “Capital”, consisting of
counting marks and numerals. </span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The work
counteracts the ruling political economy and senseless,
degrading bureaucratism with the gesture of giving, and poses
the question of meaning. The system sees itself in a mirror.
Once a day, the micro-donations upset the state’s balance sheet.
They triggers a sustained debate on values that produces
continuous reflections and echoes. </span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">For three days
during the exhibition period (19 - 21 Sept 2012) the artist will
be taking over the chair of Zoran Janković - the mayor of
Ljubljana, working at a capital desk at Aksioma - Institute for
Contemporary Art, exposing bureaucratic structures, delivering
an illustrative insight into the cultivation of capital,
communicating with the public and performing: <b>MACHT
GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL</b></span><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The project
received </span></b><span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">the PRIXARS 2011, AWARD OF DISTINCTION (HYBRID
ART), as well as TRANSMEDIALE AWARD 2011, DISTINCTION, in
recognition of the outstanding critical and visionary value of
arts.</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<i><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">*The German
title MACHT GESCHENKE is a play on words implying “CREATE
GIFTS”, or “GIFTS OF POWER” as well as “POWERFUL GIFTS”</span></i><br
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Christin Lahr</b>
(1965, Munich) lives and works as an artist, curator and
professor for Media Art in Berlin and Leipzig. She has received
several scholarships and awards and exhibited in Germany and
abroad. Since 1990 she has been teaching at different
universities as well as curating shows for instance at the
RealismusStudio of NGBK Berlin. Since 2001 Lahr is a Professor
for Media Art at th<span style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">e</span> Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig</span>.<br>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>More
information at:</b> <a href="http://www.macht-geschenke.de"
target="_blank">http://www.macht-geschenke.de</a></span><br>
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<b><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Production:</b>
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012</span><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a>
</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Artistic Director:
Janez Janša</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Executive
Producer: Marcela Okretič</span><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Assistant
Production: Sonja Grdina</span><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Public Relations:
Mojca Zupanič</span><br style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Technician: Valter
Udovičić</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
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<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<i><b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.</span></b><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.</span></i><br>
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<b><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Contact:</span></b><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Mojca Zupanič, <a
href="mailto:mojca.zupanic1@gmail.com" target="_blank">mojca.zupanic1@gmail.com</a></span><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Marcela Okretič, <a
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net" target="_blank">aksioma4@siol.net</a></span><br
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<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Aksioma |
Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</span></b><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Neubergerjeva 25,
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</span><br style="font-family:times
new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a></span><br
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