Syndicate: Fwd: Absolute One

[Chris Byrne <chris@cryptic.demon.co.uk>]

>From: "Natasa Petresin" <petresin@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Absolute One
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:15:18 -0000
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>49th International Art Biennale of Venice
>Press opening: June 6, 7, 8, 2001; Official opening 9th June 2001.
>
>Pavilion of the Republic of Slovenia
>Galleria A+A, San Marco 3073, Venice 30124. Tel/Fax 041 2770466 e-mail:
>spignotti@iol.it Press office: Roberta Lombardo: hurstel.roberta@wanadoo.fr
>
>ABSOLUTE ONE
>URL:absoluteone.ljudmila.org
>
>     	Two artists, who are already established in their own country and on
>the international scene, have been chosen to represent Republic of Slovenia
>at the 49th Venice Biennale. One of them, Vuk Cosic, could be considered a
>pioneer of art on the net; the other, Tadej Pogacar, is the inventor of new
>parasitism and director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art.
>And a foreigner guest has been invited to work with them on the particular
>issue presented in the pavilion, the group of the 0100101110101101.ORG
>
>  	Absolute one has one of Kelvin?s absolutes as a starting point, having
>been conceived in the belief of absence of movement at a molecular level and
>in the conviction that entropy, in its concept of zero, is equal to zero.
>Absolute one concludes its interactive course with the idea that absolute
>movement exists. It arrives at the idea that the absolute one means a
>binary, or in information technology, the opposite.
>
>     	With Absolute one the Slovenian Pavilion offers a strong signal full
>of optimism in place of rampant fatalism and the idea of inevitability,
>starting with the fundamental question about how the artist can work
>constructively and respond actively to the process of globalisation. With
>their work, Cosic, Pogacar and 0100101110101101.ORG investigate the problems
>of alternative economic practice and the relationship between art,
>technology and society.
>
>.	-.-.-.-
>  Collateral events
>
>- A forum (in Italian) has been activated on www.exibart.it, with the title
>Absolute One
>- Further forums have been set up for talking about the concept on
>absoluteone.ljudmila.org (in English, Slovene)and absoluteone.exibart.com
>(in Italian)
>- Specific texts commissioned by the organisation have been written on the
>theme.
>- The publication of a catalogue with the results of the experimentation.
>
>The web site and the catalogue are including texts and interviews written by
>economists, sociologists, philosophers, art critics on globalisation and its
>effects on the contemporary society (George Soros, M. R. Bosrock, Slavoj
>Zizek, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Basualdo, Olu Oguibe, Saskia Sassen, Tim
>Druckrey, Marina Grzinic, Mark Amerika) The different point of view are
>offering a wide spectrum of the phenomena and on the web site it gives the
>possibility to express the
>personal opinion on the activated forum.
>
>Vuk Cosic is one of the pioneers of net art, and his works can be seen on
>all the major sites in the world. He does not use sophisticated technology,
>but is an advocate of works of art based on low technology. It should be
>said that his low-budget technological creations produce works which do not
>require the continuous and costly evolution of technology. His works are
>visible in the web site of major international art institutions.
>
>
>	Tadej Pogacar is the director and founder of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E
>Museum, an
>institution which works outside conventional artistic and economic channels.
>He is one of the successful artists in the sector who has underlined the
>importance of the argument, whose notions are defined by mimicry, subversive
>networks, nomadism, the parallel economy and donations. New parasitism is
>developed in a
>specific cultural and temporal framework, as a result of the recent
>post-capitalist market economy, incredible technological progress and a
>mixture of scientific and artistic concepts. He has exhibited
>internationally, including Manifesta.
>
>              0100101110101101.ORG The action that made them famous was the
>?theft? of the most renowned net.art gallery, Hell.com, which has always
>been closed to the public and accessible only with a precious password. When
>Hell opened the web site for 48 hours on the occasion of the ?Surface?
>exhibition, 0100101110101101.ORG downloaded the entire content of the
>gallery and created a perfect copy, making it available to anyone in its web
>site..0100101110101101.ORG work on what they consider contradictions of the
>modern cultural system and particularly the concept of authenticity and
>authorship, taking advantage of the manipulation potential offered by the
>Internet. It should be clear to anyone that it no longer make sense to speak
>of originals or duplicates in the world of digital art.
>
>Aurora Fonda, the new commissioner for the Slovenian Pavilion and curator of
>the project, has worked independently for years in the field of contemporary
>art as a specialist, organising projects which appear outside of the usual
>exhibition spaces, filling everyday places with actions, performances and
>exhibitions. Thus the spectator participates and, to a certain extent, is an
>actor in the event. She studied history of art, specialising in contemporary
>art in Venice. She is involved in exploring the most advanced expressions of
>international contemporary art. Projects curated by Aurora Fonda include:
>Paura (Fear, project created with Oliviero Toscani for Benetton?s Fabbrica
>Centre of Communications) and La casa Vestita (The Clothed House) - Biennale
>1999. She has also curated personal exhibitions for Jannis Kounnelis, Enzo
>Cucchi, and Lucio Fontana.


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