Aksioma Institute

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Aksioma, Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Jakopičeva ulica 11, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 41 250 830
Janez Janša, Director and Producer



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The Aksioma Institute is a production and organisation unit for various endeavours in the field of contemporary art. It runs its own gallery called Aksioma Project Space, presents internationally renowned performances and new media art projects, collaborates in producing new artworks, publishes books and texts on artists and art, sets up lectures, and represents Slovene artists abroad.

Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, it was founded in 2002 and is run by the multimedia artist Janez Janša, formerly known as Davide Grassi.


Creed

Aksioma tends to engage in projects which utilise new technologies and which reflect on the structures of the (post)modern society, as organised by technology itself. Focusing on artistic production that explores social and political concerns, it endorses practices which – for example – aim at rethinking, subverting or hacking the roles and narratives of mass media, using a variety of mediums to do so.

Though working primarily in the field of new media art, the institute also deals with performing and visual arts.

Projects

In light of more than a dozen (sometimes double so) productions, performances and exhibitions per year, one would be hard pressed to thoroughly sum up the directions explored by Aksioma.

Nevertheless, a very partial listing of its relatively recent projects can give a feel for the topics and means explored: Sonoseismic Earth (a responsive kinetic installation that presents Earth in the age of the Anthropocene), The World Without Us (a group exhibition exploring "narratives on the age of non-human actors"); Random Darknet Shopper (a robot/software entity that was randomly buying and ordering on the 'darknet'); Joey Skaggs in Ljubljana (a visit by the social activist, educator and prankster Joey Skaggs); All Work, No Play (an interactive exhibition of video games that make people critically engage with current socio-political issues); Eternal September (a group exhibition on the relationships between professional art making and the rising tide of amateur cultural movements throughout the Web); and History of the Future (a cinematic archive/multi-media presentation of international science-fiction production and representations of possible realities of the future and the present).

Artists

Aksioma Institute tends to work with artists whose approach to new media is not just about technology but also about the issues that resonate with Aksioma's overarching concern. Of the Slovene artists, one can thus name the multimedia artist Sašo Sedlaček; the self-styled 'pseudo-artist and intimate mobile communicator' Igor Štromajer (of the Intima Virtual Base); Neven Korda and his experimental video 'theatre'; Marko Batista, a tech-mixed-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer; and the interdisciplinary artist Maja Smrekar, the recipient of the Golden Nica 2017.

A few of the many artists and collectives with whom Aksioma has collaborated are Jennifer Lyn Morone (US), Pinar Yoldas (TU), Jacob Appelbaum (US), !Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH/UK), Nicolas Maigret (FR), Molleindustria (IT), Golan Levin (US), Josef (Seppo) Gründler (AT), Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev (NZ), and Michael Madsen (DN).

Janez Janša namechange project

Aksioma has produced several projects by its director Janez Janša, formerly known as Davide Grassi. One very visible enterprise, initiated in 2007, was his official and permanent namechange. Alongside two other artists, formerly known as Emil Hrvatin and Žiga Kariž, he took the name of the then prime minister.

Various projects have taken place in the framework of this and the trio presented it also as the performance Signature Event Context on the Transmediale 2008 in Berlin. In the same year the exhibition called NAME - Readymade was featured at the Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Art in Graz. Since than it was also presented in ArtLaboratoryBerlin, HONF laboratory Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. In 2012 Aksioma Institute ran the first successful crowdfunding project in Slovenia, which enabled the postproduction of the My Name Is Janez Janša documentary film.

Publications

Aksioma frequently publishes texts on contemporary art in various formats, books, brochures and catalogues. As a rule the publications are available to read both online and in print, and are usually available either in English or as bilingual publications.

The titles include Mladen Dolar's What’s in a Name and Domenico Quaranta's Beyond New Media Art; texts on the work of artists like Marko Batista and Sašo Sedlaček; The Pirate Book (offering a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy); and many others.

It has also released some albums, among them an album by the Bast collective Bast – Retinal Cirkus (2007) containing improvisations recorded at Klub Gromka.

Collaborations and partners

The Aksioma Institute as a producer and co-producer collaborates with numerous different institutions. In Slovenia, it's frequent partners are or have been Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, the KiBela Art Space, the Museum of Modern Art, the Maska Institute, the Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, the Kapelica Gallery, the Match Gallery, the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Bunker Institute, and the City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts.

International cooperation

In 2017 Aksioma won a Creative Europe grant for a project called State Machines. Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation, featuring Drugo more udruge (HR), Furtherfield.org (UK), NeMe (CY), Stichting Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL). Their previous projects under the auspices of Creative Europe have been the international cooperation projects Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-digital Age (2014–2016) and ARSCOPE: Art-Science Co-Operation Environement (2011–2013).

The institute has also worked with festivals and institutions 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), V:NM Festival in Graz, Kunsthaus Graz etc.

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