[Nettime-bold] ABSOLUTE ONE

[Aurora Fonda <spignotti@iol.it>]

[sorry for cross posting]


ABSOLUTE ONE


49th International Art Biennale of Venice
Press opening: June 6, 7, 8, 2001; Official opening 9th June 2001.
Pavilion of the Slovene Republic
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



Nomination of the Slovenian Pavilion Curator
   At a meeting on 27 January 2001, the Slovenian Republic’s Minister of
Culture, Andreja Rihter, nominated Aurora Fonda curator of the Slovenian
Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale.


      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.


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  Collateral events


- A forum has been activated on http://www.exibart.it, with the title
Absolute One
- Further forums have been set up for talking about the concept on
http://www.exibart.it and http://absoluteone.ljudmila.org.
- 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, Salvoj Zizek, Viktor Misiano, Carlos Basualdo, Olu
Oguibe, Tim Druckery, Marina Grzinic, Mark America) 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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