Book presentation:
TUE, 27 March 2012 at 6 pm
with Sašo Sedlaček, Dr Luka Omladič and Dr Petja Grafenauer
Exhibition opening:
TUE, 27 March 2012 at 7 pm
Production of the exhibition: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
Coproduction: Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts and Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Slovenska 9, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interdisciplinary & Collaborative Practices Cluster
Scarborough, Great Britain
Exhibition
Artist’s presentation and exhibition opening:
MON, 19 March 2012 at 7 pm
Free entrance
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Series of concerts starting at 8 pm
Free entrance
Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana
Mathew Burtner (USA)
Lecture: SUN, 2 October 2011 at 4 PM, Moderna galerija
Performance: TUE, 4 October 2011 at 8 PM, Kinoteka
William Brent (USA)
_ Lecture: SUN, 2 October 2011 at 4.30 PM, Moderna galerija
_ Workshop: MON, 3 October 2011, 10 AM – 1 PM, Ljudmila
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (GB)
_ Performance: SUN 2 October 2011 at 8 PM, Kinoteka
Eduardo Miranda (GB)
_ Lecture: MON, 3 October 2011 at 3 PM, Moderna galerija
_ Performance (with Igor Vićentić): MON,3 October 2011 at 9 PM, Cankarjev dom, Kosovelova dvorana
Solo Exhibition
Opening:
TUE, 8 November 2011 at 7 pm
Gregorčičeva 3, Ljubljana
Presentation
Free entrance
Trg Leona Štuklja 2, Maribor, Slovenia
Retrospective exhibition
Opening:
FRI, 11 November 2012 at 7 pm
Glavni trg 24, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
a free international urban digital collective action
Ending event:
WED, 28 December 2011 at 7 pm
Free entrance
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
New Media installation
Exhibition opening:
TUE, 10 January 2012 at 7 pm
Free entrance
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Performance
Tickets: 10 EUR
Zaloška 61, Ljubljana
Movie screening
26 January 2012, 27 January 2012, 31 January 2012 and 1 February 2012
Public interview
26 January 2012
Aksioma |Project Space, Ljubljana
A haunting non-fiction elegy about the threat of the apocalypse, Michael Madsen’s “Into Eternity” ponders the future of nuclear waste and explorers the horrors of anticipating an unpredictable future.
Into Eternity is an unique art work that deeply explores the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses.
Structured as a message to future generations, the piece focuses on the Onkalo waste repository now under construction in Finland, one of the first underground storage facilities. Onkalo is a gigantic network of tunnels being carved out of bedrock that will start receiving Finland’s nuclear waste in 2020. Once the repository is full, in about 100 years, it will be closed and hopefully remain sealed for at least 100,000 years.
Into Eternity takes viewers deep into the Onkalo facility as it is being constructed and asks Onkalo representatives, scientists, theologians and others to address fundamental but challenging questions.
How can our civilization know what the world will be like in 100,000 years? The first modern homo sapiens appeared about that long ago and no human structure has survived more than 5000 years. How can we anticipate climate and geologic changes that far in the future? What will life on our planet be like then? How do we warn distant generations of the deadly waste our civilization left behind? What languages or signs will they understand? How do we prevent them from thinking they have located the pyramids of our time or some other treasures?
With its stark, stylistic approach, the video work Into Eternity by the Danish artist Michael Madsen not only raises questions about the possibility of long-term nuclear waste storage, but also invites reflection on the limits of science and human knowledge, along with our responsibility to future generations.
Film credits
Director and Scriptwriter: Michael Madsen
Producer: Lise Lense-Møller
Editors: Daniel Dencik, Stefan Sundlöf
Director of Photography: Heikki Färm F.S.C.
Sound Design: Nicolai Linck, Øivind Weingaarde
Mix: Tomas Arwe
Production Company: Magic Hour Films
Nagrade
– FilmAmbiente – International Environmental Film Festival
November 2011; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Best International Feature Film
– Baikal International Festival of Documentary; October 2011; Irkutsk, Russia; Grand Prix
– Antenna International Documentary Film Festival; October 2011;Sydney, Australia; Best International Film
Director’s statement
Michael Madsen. Born 1971 – conceptual artist and film directorfounder and artistic leader of the Sound/Gallery, a 900 square meter sound diffusion system underneath the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark (1996-2001).
Madsen has been guest lecturer at The Royal Danish Academy of Art, The Danish Film School, and The Danish School of Design. As film director he realized various documentaries among others the Award-winning ‘To Damascus – a Film on Interpretation’ (2005).Selected art projects include: Audience (van Gogh#7), design of SPOR 2007, festival for new music and sound art; and Public Service (van Gogh#6)Phase 1: Idea and concept for a new music library in Odense, Denmark.
Mojca Kumerdej is a writer, philosopher and art critic. In 2001, Študentska založba published her first book, the novel Baptism Above Triglav (Krst nad Triglavom), in which she ironically explores Slovenian stereotypes and national mythology; in 2003, her book of short prose Fragma was published in the Beletrina series, and in 2011 her collection of short prose Dark Matter (Temna snov). Her literature has been translated into several foreigh languages. She has appeared at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in Moscow, St Petersburg, and at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara (Mexico); she has made guest appearances at book fairs in Prague, Leipzig, Buenos Aires and in Hungary. In 2006, she received the Crystal Vilenica award for her short story Below Surface (Pod gladino) at the Vilenica International Literary Festival. Her work Fragma has been interpreted in theatre, in the dance-theatrical performance by Sonja Ožbolt, and in graduation-TV dramas by the students of film directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, for which the students received the Academy’s Prešernova Awards.
Author: Michael Madsen
Production of the event:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012
The program of Aksioma is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.
Solo exhibition
Artist’s presentation and exhibition opening:
TUE, 7 February 2012 at 7 pm
Free entrance
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
Experimental intermedia performance
Free entrance
Ivana Grohovca 2, Rijeka, Croatia
Experimental intermedia performance
Free entrance
In the frame of the presentation of Maribor 2012 – The European Capital of Culture
Rue des Arbalestriers, 8, 7000 Mons, Belgium
Video installation
Lecture and exhibition opening:
WED, 7 September 2011 at 8 pm
Free entrance
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
ISEA 2011 Istanbul
_ The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Istanbul, Turkey
Experimental intermedia performance
Free entrance
Trg Leona Štuklja 2, Maribor, Slovenia
Installation
in the frame of the group show
Art in the name of…
_ Curated by Iva Kovač and Nemanja Cvijanović
The exhibition includes also works from: ABS, Milijana Babić, Tomislav Brajnović, Nemanja Cvijanović, Siniša Labrović, Cesare Pietroiusti, Oliver Ressler and Slaven Tolj
Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb, Croatia