"History is not given it has to be constructed, it's pure fiction, like in a novel." (0100101110101101.ORG)  Actions accomplished Action #1: Ich Lubbe Berlin! Reichstag, Berlin Germany, Dec. 2005 Action #2: Das KAPITAL Wenceslaw Square, Prague Czech Republic, Oct. 2006 Action #3: C'était un rendez-vous (déja vu) Paris city center, Paris France, May 2007 Action #4: VD as VB  Kapelica gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia, June 2007 Action #5: Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav Mount Triglav, Slovenia, August. 2007 Action #6: Slovene National Theatre Old Power Station, Ljubljana Slovenia, October 2007   Action #7: Synthetic Performances Artists Space, New York, USA November 2007   Action #8: SS-XXX | Die Frau Helga Nova gallery, Zagreb Croatia, November 2007  Actions to come Action #9: Landing on the Red Square Red Square, Moskow Russia, 2008 Action #10: Rijeka's Interactive Lighthouse Rijeka's harbour , Rijeka Croatia, 2008 Action #11: Via Fani Via Fani, Rome Italy, 2008

RE:akt! - meaning not only "to act again" but "to respond to/react upon" and "Regarding: act!"- confronts current ideological and intellectual canons, power structures, policies, and distribution channels by re-enacting selected historical events. Through processes of analysis, deconstruction, re-enactment and (re-)reporting, the intermedia research and presentation project RE:akt! examine's media's role(s) in manipulating perceptions and creating (post)modern historical myths and contemporary mythology. The english word used to describe these actions (re-enactment) has to be linked with the english neologism enaction coined by the biologist and theorist Francisco Varela, which stresses the active engagement of an organism with the environment as the cornerstone of the organism's developement, an the constitution of perception through guided actions rather through passive recording of events. LATEST ACTIONS Mount Triglav on Mount Triglav LJUBLJANA, August 7, 2007 On Monday, August 6, 2007, Slovenian artists Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša performed the action entitled Triglav on Triglav. The action was performed for the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the death of Jakob Aljaž, the 33rd anniversary of the Footpath from Vrhnika to Mount Triglav, the 5th anniversary of the Footpath from the Wörthersee Lake across Mount Triglav to the Bohinj Lake, the 25th anniversary of the publication of Nova Revija magazine and the 20th anniversary of the 57th issue of Nova Revija, the fundamental publication of the SLOVENIAN SPRING, and the 16th anniversary of the independent state of Slovenia. The action is conceived on the re-enactment of the famous work by the OHO group entitled Gora Triglav (Mount Triglav), which was performed by group members Milenko Matanović, David Nez and Drago Dellabernardina on December 30, 1968, at the Zvezda Park in Ljubljana. In 2004, the Irwin group performed the action on the same location within their Like to Like series, which is about reinterpreting individual actions of the OHO group. With their action Triglav on Triglav, Janša, Janša and Janša continue the tradition of conceptual art in Slovenia, at the same time raising the issue of the ideological association of events from remote and recent history. [more]   Related event TRIGLAV OHO, Irwin, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša Exhibition Curator: Zdenka Badovinac 15 - 22 October 2007 Mala galerija Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana Slovenska cesta 35, Ljubljana, Slovenia and NOEMA Gallery in Second Life Synthetic Performances   EVA AND FRANCO MATTES aka 0100101110101101.ORG Artists Space, New York November 13, 2007 at 7pm NY time (GMT -5) In Second Life at Odyssey - 4 PM (Second Life time) Presentation in the frame of PERFORMA07 [more] SS-XXX | Die Frau Helga The Borghild Project Reconstruction   Showroom / Nova Gallery Zagreb, Croatia November 29th 2007 Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ordered in 1941 the development of the world's first inflatable sex doll meant to serve the sexual needs of the German fighting man. The officer directly responsible for the sex doll project was S.S. commander Heinrich Himmler. The plan was never put into action because the factory that was supposed to manufacture the sex dolls was in the city of Dresden, which was bombed by the Allies. And so Hitler never got to become the "father of the inflatable doll." [more]

Contacts:   aksioma[AT]aksioma.org Subject: Re: Akt! Authors: Lucas Bambozzi, Matevž Čelik, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), Dejan Dragosavac Ruta, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer) Concept and Co-ordination: Janez Janša Producer: Marcela Okretic Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Co-Production: Festival City of Woman (Action#4); Dedale.info (Action #3); Intima Virtual Base (Action #1, #2); No-History (Action #1); Drugo More (Action #6); Zavod Trajekt (Action #6); GingerProd (Action #3); Kapelica gallery (Action #4); Kontejner (Action #7); Gallery P74 (Action #7); Maska (Action #9); Zavod Masa (Action #9), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (Action #9); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (Action #4); National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest; O3ONE Gallery; Die ESC Kunstverein; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien; EYZ Media Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia the Municipality of Ljubljana and the European Cultural Foundation www.reakt.org powered by