[aha] MONOCHROM at Aksioma Project Space

[Aksioma]

Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you 
to the event:

*monochrom*
/*Zeigerpointer*//**/(exhibition)
/*G*//*ala show */(performance)
_http://www.aksioma.org/monochrom_

*Aksioma Project Space*

Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia

*Performance and **exhibition **opening: July 6, 2011 at 8pm
*The exhibition will be open until July 22, 2011.

*monochrom's medley at Aksioma Project Space is a little /tour-de-farce/ 
about their projects and political motivation.
An entertaining gala show about good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, 
culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair.
Powernapping highly welcome.*

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/*The wonderful world of absence
*/*?monochrom's */*Zeigerpointer *//*
*/

The exhibition presents monochrom's collection of so-called 
'Zeigerpointers'. Until an official term for the media phenomenon 
'Zeigerpointer' has been found, this place holder describes a widespread 
form of representation used by the print media. This has until now 
neither been perceived nor defined as a specific form. With the 
collection (www.monochrom.at/zeigerpointer) and the sequence of images 
'Zeigerpointer', monochrom wants to contribute to the examination of the 
'Zeigerpointer' as a category of representational aesthetics.

The 'Zeigerpointer' is defined as images (in the scope of printed media 
reporting) of crime scenes, locations of accidents as well as other 
locations in which some kind of thing has happened that can no longer be 
seen because the reported happening is already over and no traces are 
visible (either because none were produced or because they were already 
removed during the reinstatement of the status quo). Because in these 
cases there is nothing to take a picture of, the photo journalist 
generally asks certain people -- eyewitnesses, concerned parties or 
somebody in charge -- to point to the spot where 'it' happened. 
'Zeigerpointers' can unambiguously be defined with a couple of criteria 
they have to fulfil and therefore distinguish them from other pictures 
of people pointing at something. The reported event must not be visible 
through any other means than the pointing at the spot where 'it' happened.
monochrom has been collecting such images for several years in the form 
of newspaper clippings (which ideally should also contain the captions), 
at first from Austrian print media, later some international exhibits 
were also added. They are published on their website (after diligently 
ascertaining their validity) and in the form of e-mailings and word of 
mouth we regularly call for entries.
With the project 'The wonderful world of absence' monochrom wants to 
present the findings of this media-cultural archaeology to the public 
for the first time, also changing the media, in the form of an 
exhibition. The exhibits will be selected examples painted in oil.

*monochrom's Gala show*

monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology, 
art, context hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993.
monochrom call themselves an "unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic 
fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and 
political activism." And that means they try to find the perfect medium 
and setting to spread messages - the search for the best Weapon of Mass 
Distribution of an idea.
monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a 1 
baud semaphore line through the streets of San Francisco, started an 
illegal space race through Los Angeles, buried people alive in 
Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies of the art system with The 
Thomann Project. In Austria they ate blood sausages made from their own 
blood in order to criticize the grotesque neoliberal formation of the 
world economy. Sometimes they compose melancholic pop songs about dying 
media and host the first annual conference an sex and technology. Also 
they do international soul trade, neo-marxist puppet theatre, space 
sit-coms, and -- sorry to mention -- modern dance.
monochrom's medley at Aksioma Project Space is a little tour-de-farce 
about their projects and political motivation. An entertaining gala show 
about good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, 
identity, utopia, mania and despair. Powernapping highly welcome.



*Production of the event: *Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, 
Ljubljana, 2011
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_

Artistic Director: Janez Jans(a
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretic(
Public relations: Mojca Zupanic(
Technical support: Valter Udovic(ic'
Assistant: Anz(e Grm

*Thanks to *Andreas Heller for kick-starting this project, all 
Zeigerpointer contributors and The People's Republic of China

/*Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ljubljana, the Ministry of 
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia,
the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Department of Art Funding / City 
of Vienna, Austria
*/
/Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.
Media sponsor: Mladina, Radio S(tudent/


*Contact:*
Marcela Okretic(, 041 250 830, aksioma4 at siol.net
*Aksioma | Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel.: + 386 -- (0)590 - 54360
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_



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