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Aksioma, Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 430 1511
Janez Janša, Director and Producer



Phone386 (0) 41 250 669
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Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts is a non-profit cultural institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, co-founded in 2002 by Davide Grassi, today known as Janez Janša. It is interested in projects that take advantage of new technologies in order to investigate and discuss the structures of (post)modern society. Aksioma concentrates on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns.

In April and May 2012 Aksioma is collecting contributions for a documentary film My Name Is Janez Janša on Verkami (crouwdfunding lasts until May the 20th). The film about names and name changes is focusing on three artists who officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša in 2007.

A trailer for My Name is Janez Janša (2012)

In 2011 Aksioma opened its Project Space at Komenskega street in the centre of Ljubljana. The venue presents internationally renowned new media art projects.


Intermedia projects

Aksioma has produced many projects by Janez Janša, such as DemoKino (Virtual Biopolitical Agora), an anti-entertainment interactive movie questioning modern democracy. Demokino is a virtual parliament that provides participants the opportunity to decide about the questions of life. The Institute has also produced several projects by Sašo Sedlaček, including his overview exhibition Supertrash (coproduction with Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts and Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana) shown in Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec (2011) and Jakopič Gallery (2012) where visitors could see Sedlaček's best projects created during the last ten years.

Music and Performance

Aksioma produced project Bast (1998-2007) and co-organized several performances for the V:NM Festival in Graz in 2007. Some of the most important performances produced by Aksioma are SilentCell Network, an artistic network for interventions in public spaces by Mare Bulc, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer; Nicole Blackman's performance The Courtesan Tales in Café Belvedere, Vila Bled where visitors could order the courtesan's service a la carte; paraSITE by Michael Rakowitz and Brainloop by Janez Janša. Brainloop is an interactive performance platform that utilizes a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system which allows a subject to operate devices merely by imagining specific motor commands. In the second part of the performance, Brainloop is used to compose a custom soundtrack. Aksioma is also producing videos, In the Long Run(2010) by IOCOSE being one of them.

Publications

Aksioma published a catalogue of Davide Grassi's selected works in 2004, DemoKino - Virtual Biopolitical Agora, a book edited by Ivana Ivkovic and Janez Janša (2006), Janez Janša's biography (2008) writen by Marcel Štefančič jr and published by Mladina and co-produced by Maska and Aksioma; and RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting (2009) among the others. They have published a catalogue for Sašo Sedlaček's exhibition Supertrash as well. Many of the catalogues are in two languages, for example a monography of Diego Andrés Gómez (2007) in Slovene and Spanish or Signature (2010) in Slovene and English. Aksioma publishes or collaborates with others to publish a brochure for its exhibitions. Aksioma brochure #1 Name Radymade was published in 2010 (the catalogue with the same title was published two years sooner by Moderna galerija). Since then they publish about six brochures per year and the publications are available on line as well. Aksioma also released some albums, an album by the Bast collective Bast – Retinal Cirkus (2007) containing improvisations recorded at Klub Gromka, during the project Burn Out produced by Aksioma.

Cooperation

Aksioma Institute cooperates with many other institutions, for example with the Kapelica Gallery with which Aksioma has co-produced or co-organized many projects, H220 by Marko Batista in 2010 being one of them. They also cooperate with Vžigalica Gallery (Exhibitions EKMRZ by Ubermorgen.com, 15 objects by Peter Rauch and Fuck the system by Eva and Franco Mattes), Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts (exhibitions Signature, for instance), Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (exhibition Triglav in Mala Gallery), P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Maska Institute, Intima Virtual Base, SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Zank, Bunker Institute and many institutions and festivals abroad, among them the MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, MMSU - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rijeka (RE:akt!), Institute FH JOANNEUM Graz (Brainloop), Kunsthaus Graz etc. They cooperated with City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts to present a lectures Hack the Gender! by Tatiana Bazzichelli on hacker ethics and Jannifer Doyle's: Between Friends in 2007.

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