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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you to
the event:</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<big><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><big><b>monochrom</b></big></font></big>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span lang="sl-SI"><i><b>Zeigerpointer</b></i></span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="sl-SI"><i><b> </b></i></span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">(exhibition)</span></span></span></font>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i><b>G</b></i><span
lang="sl-SI"><i><b>ala show </b></i></span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-weight: normal;">(performance)</span></span></span></font>
<br>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/monochrom"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">http://www.aksioma.org/monochrom</span></span></span></font></a></u></span></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Aksioma Project Space</b></font><br>
</p>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Komenskega
18,
Ljubljana</font><font face="Times New Roman">, Slovenia<br>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Performance
and
</span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New
Roman" size="2"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0%
0% transparent;">exhibition </span></b></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">opening:
July 6, 2011 at 8pm<br>
</span></b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New
Roman" size="2"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">The exhibition will be open until July 22, 2011.</span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><br>
<br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><b><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI">monochrom's
medley at Aksioma Project Space is a little <i>tour-de-farce</i>
about their projects and political motivation. <br>
An entertaining gala show about good clean fanaticism,
crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia,
mania and despair. <br>
Powernapping highly welcome.</span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"></span></font></b></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i><b>The
wonderful world of absence<br>
</b></i><b>
monochrom's </b><i><b>Zeigerpointer </b></i></font><font
size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><i><b><br>
</b></i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">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 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.monochrom.at/zeigerpointer">www.monochrom.at/zeigerpointer</a>)
and the sequence of images 'Zeigerpointer', monochrom wants to
contribute to the examination of the 'Zeigerpointer' as a category
of representational aesthetics. <br>
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<font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><big>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. <br>
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. <br>
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.</big><br>
</font></font><br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="sl-SI"><font face="Times New
Roman" size="4"><b>monochrom's Gala show</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span
style="font-weight: normal;"></span>monochrom is a worldwide
operating collective dealing with technology, art, context
hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><br>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Production
of the event: </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;"
face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011</font> <br>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><span lang="sl-SI"><span style="font-weight:
normal;">Artistic Director: Janez Janša<br>
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretič<br>
Public relations: Mojca Zupanič<br>
Technical support: Valter Udovičić<br>
Assistant: Anže Grm<br>
<br>
<b>Thanks to </b>Andreas Heller for kick-starting this
project, all Zeigerpointer contributors and The People’s
Republic of China<br>
<br>
<i><b>Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ljubljana,
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, <br>
the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Department of Art
Funding / City of Vienna, Austria<br>
</b></i><br>
<i>Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.<br>
Media sponsor: Mladina, Radio Študent</i></span></span></font></font><br>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Contact:</b></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Marcela
Okretič,
041 250 830, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Aksioma
|
Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana</b></font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Neubergerjeva
25,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija</font> <br>
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="2">tel.:
+ 386 – (0)590 - 54360</font> <br>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font>
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