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Subject: [aha] RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting
From:    "Domenico Quaranta" <qrndnc la yahoo.it>
Date:    Sat, January 17, 2009 12:24
To:      "domenico quaranta" <qrndnc la yahoo.it>
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Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and
MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
present:

*RE:akt!*
Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting
curated by: Domenico Quaranta
www.reakt.org


*MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest*
Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania / Entrance from Calea 13
Septembrie
22 January – 13 March 2009

Panel discussion: 22 January 2009 at 18:00
Exhibition opening: 22 January 2009 at 19:00

Featured artists:  Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet,
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Irwin, Eva and Franco Mattes
(aka 0100101110101101.ORG), OHO group, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc,
Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer)

MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest is proud to
announce “RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting”, the
world preview of the works realized in the last three years within the
platform “RE:akt!” conceived by Janez Janša and produced by the
Slovenian cultural institution Aksioma.

During recent years the term re-enactment and the practices it refers
to have enjoyed increasing success in the artistic context. On one
hand, the success of re-enactment appears to be connected to a
parallel, vigorous return to performance art, both as a genre
practiced by the new generations, and as an artistic practice with its
own historicization. On the other hand the term re-enactment
accompanies two phenomena that at least at first glance have very
little in common: re-staging artistic performances of the past, and
revisiting, in performance form, “real” events – be they linked
to history or current affairs, past or present.

“RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting” tries both to
research on the complexity of this concept and to get rid of it,
approaching re-enactment not merely as “live action role-playing”
or “living history” but rather as a strategy for cultural critique,
analysis and artistic expression. “RE:akt!” – meaning not only
“to act again” but also “to respond to / to react upon” and
“Regarding: act!”– confronts current ideological and intellectual
canons, power structures, policies, and distribution channels by re-
enacting selected historical and culturally relevant events. Through
processes of analysis, deconstruction, re-enactment and re-reporting,
the intermedia research and presentation project “RE:akt!” examines
media’s roles in manipulating perceptions and creating postmodern
historical myths and contemporary mythology.


Thus, “RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting”, curated
by the Italian art critic and curator Domenico Quaranta, will collect
ten different approaches to the concept ofenaction: from Ich Lubbe
Berlin! (2005, SilentCell Network), a take on the 1933 burning of the
Reichstag building in Berlin, which explores the contemporary meaning
of symbols such as the Reichstag itself, and of concepts such as
“communism” and “terrorism”; to Das KAPITAL (2006, Janez
Janša), a performance which re-stages the 1969 occupation of
Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces with the languages of popular
street artists; from C'était un rendez-vous (déja vu) (Janez Janša
and Quentin Drouet), a project that plays with the paradigmatic
history of a well known artwork, the film C'était un rendez-vous by
Claude Lelouch, from “cinema verité” to “media fiction”; to VD
as VB (2007), a series of actions in which Vaginal Davis, the “grande
dame” of the queer underground in Los Angeles, dialogues with Vanessa
Beecroft's performances. In Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav (2007 -
2008), the three artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša re-
stage a well known performance of the OHO group from the late Sixties,
recently appropriated by the IRWIN group for their Like to Like Series
(2004), performing it on the Mount Triglav itself, and then
translating it into a monumental golden sculpture; while in Slovene
National Theatre (2007), Janez Janša translates an infamous fact of
recent racism against Gypsies – known in Slovenia as “the Ambrus
case” - into a piece of theatre, re-invoicing it as it was featured
by the mass media. In their Synthetic Performances (2007), Eva and
Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG reenact on the virtual platform
of Second Life a series of historical performances that are all but
virtual, raising issues such as body, violence, sex and pain, thus
exploring the meaning of these very issues in a virtual world. In SS-
XXX | Die Frau Helga (2007), Janez Janšaagain adds details and proofs
of evidence to an “urban legend” recently circulated on the Net and
mainstream media, concerning the presumed creation of a cyber-sex doll
by the Nazis. Thus, performance and reenactment are far from being the
only strategies adopted in “RE:akt!”, which also involves
strategies such as documentation, remix, re-invoicement,
reconstruction and remediation (such as in the project The Day São
Paulo Stopped 2009 by Brazilian artist Lucas Bambozzi), and media such
as photographic print, video, media installation and even architecture
(such as in the project Il porto dell'amore, by Janez Janša, an homage
to Fiume as an example of pirate utopia).

On Thursday, January 22, MNAC will host a panel discussion featuring
Domenico Quaranta, curator of the exhibition; Janez Janša, artist and
director of Aksioma; and the italian theoretician Antonio Caronia, co-
editor of the book RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting,
to be published on March 2009 (with contributions by Rod Dickinson,
Jennifer Allen, Jan Verwoert, Antonio Caronia and Domenico Quaranta).
On March 25, the exhibition will travel to Å KUC gallery, Ljubljana
(Slovenia) and then further to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art in Rijeka (Croatia).


*FREE IMAGES FOR PRESS and MORE INFO:*
http://www.reakt.org/

Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org

Supported by
the European Cultural Foundation www.eurocult.org
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
the Municipality of Ljubljana

Thanks to:
Institut Français de Bucarest, Irwin, Claude Lelouch - LES FILMS 13,
Moderna galerija Ljubljana,  MGLC - International Centre of Graphic
Arts Ljubljana, RPS d.o.o.


*Contacts:*

Oana Tanase
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania
phone: +40 – (0)21 318 91 37
e-mail: oana la spic.ro
www.mnac.ro

Marcela Okretič
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
gsm : +386 – (0)41 250 830
e-mail: aksioma4 la siol.net
www.aksioma.org





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