[aha] Aksioma opens a new production and exhibition space in Ljubljana

[Aksioma]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!

*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art opens a new production and 
exhibition space*
Monday, April 4, 2011 at 7 pm
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_
<www.aksioma.org>
After almost a decade of its existence Aksioma |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.


OPENING SHOW
*
Trevor Paglen *
/*A Hidden Landscape*
/April 4 - 22, 2011

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 
/Symbology/ (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, /Missing Persons/ (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 /Missing Persons/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 /Code Names/, 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 
/Limit Telephotography/ 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.

_BROCHURE_ _[.pdf] _
/Contradictions of the Hidden Landscapes
/Ida Hirs(enfelder - Interview with Trevor Paglen
Download _here 
<http://www.aksioma.org/hidden-landscape/pdf/aks_brochure_08_paglen.pdf>_

_CREDITS_
Author: Trevor Paglen
Lender of the artworks: Galerie Thomas Zander
Artistic director: Janez Jans(a
Technician: Valter Udovic(ic'

Production and organization: _Aksioma <http://www.aksioma.org/>_*| * 
<http://www.aksioma.org/>_Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana 
<http://www.aksioma.org/>_, 2011
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretic( and Janez Jans(a

Supported by _The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia 
<http://www.mk.gov.si/en/>_and _the City of Ljubljana - Department of 
Culture <http://www.ljubljana.si/en/>_
Thanks: Marco Deseriis, Marko Peljhan, Christina Mey

*
Contact:*
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
phone:+ 386 -- (0)591 -- 90876
gsm:+ 386 -- (0)41 -- 250669
e-mail:**_aksioma at aksioma.org <mailto:aksioma4 at siol.net>_
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_




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