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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Aksioma – Institute
for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, presents:</span><br
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<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>
Conny Blom</span><br style="font-family:times new
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<i><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The
Complete Beatles</span></i></b><br
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<i><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Installation</span></i><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Aksioma |
Project Space</span><br style="font-family:times new
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Komenskega
18, Ljubljana</span><br style="font-family:times new
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">6 – 22
February 2013</span><br style="font-family:times new
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<b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Exhibition
opening: Wednesday, 6 February 2013 at 7 pm</span></b><br
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Parallel to
the intensified blood hunt for file sharers, the music
industry is screaming for strengthened copyright laws,
under the pretext that it is to protect the creators
(musicians, artists, writers). In actual case, it is
obviously to protect their own interests that the major
record labels try to throw a spanner into the works for
both development and creativity. With the current laws it
would be impossible for genres like jazz and rock music to
emerge since what has always been an integral part of
musical development, namely references, borrowings and
paraphrases, no longer is possible without financial
backing from the major players of the music industry.
Instead of investing money in trying to keep up with the
technical development the money is spent on lobbying to
convince politicians and legislators that it is necessary
to litigate against both file sharing and any creator who
gets the idea to borrow to create something new. Few
others have been protected more fiercely in this way than
an old pop band from Liverpool, who themselves were
borrowing a lot from old blues tunes. We are of course
speaking of The Beatles, and said band is also one of the
reasons why we now see the copyright for recordings being
prolonged.<br>
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In the installation <i>The Complete Beatles</i> the
artist Conny Blom is symbolically challenging the music
industry as his 8 channel sound installation consists in
its entirety of music recorded by the British band. As a
matter of fact, every second of the officially released
studio recordings by The Beatles is included in the piece,
but none of the songs can be recognised. Each individual
track is looped and played simultaneously, so that at any
given moment of the continuous sound one can hear all of
The Beatles’ studio recordings. The sound shifts as one
walks through the room and comes closer to individual
speakers. The overtones shimmer and vibrate. The
production on the earlier and later albums differs and
this is noticeable even though not a single note of the
original music can be identified. This is not about
sampling – The Beatles production is presented in its
entirety – but is it The Beatles that we are hearing?<br>
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<b>Conny Blom</b> is an artist currently based in Sweden.
With a background as an art historian and Master degree in
Fine Arts, Blom deals with the defining issues of our
modern society, our living conditions and the rights of
the individual versus the society and the economical
forces. Trying to balance between the poetic and the
subversive, Blom uses material from pop culture as well as
iconic pieces of contemporary art to comment, question and
subvert established hierarchies. By focusing on the
otherwise overlooked, the in-between, and the unseen,
reediting it into new aesthetic experiences, Blom aims to
provide new perspectives and bring into light previously
untold stories.</span><br style="font-family:times new
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Production:
</b>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana,
2013<br>
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<i><b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The
exhibition is produced with support by Iaspis, the
Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International
Programme for Visual Artists.</span></b></i><br
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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><br style="font-family:times new
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</b><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.</span><b><br>
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<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Marcela
Okretič, +386 41 250 830, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a><br
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</span><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
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