"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 Action #9: Il porto dell'amore Rijeka's harbour , Rijeka Croatia, 2008 Action #10: The Day São Paulo Stopped São Paulo Brazil, 2009 Action #11: In The Long Run London UK, 2010

RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting Exhibition curated by: Domenico Quaranta 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) and IOCOSE. 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. [MORE] LATEST EVENTS RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting   Maribor Art Gallery - Rotovž Exhibition Salon Trg Leona Štuklja 2 Maribor, Slovenia October 21 – November 19, 2010 [MORE] SS-XXX | Die Frau Helga The Borghild Project Reconstruction   Fabio Paris Art Gallery Via Alessandro Monti 13 25121 Brescia, Italy 28 March – 30 April 2009 [MORE] [SLIDESHOW] CREDITS Concept and Co-ordination: Janez Janša Producer: Marcela Okretič Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Janša, Bojana Kunst, Igor Štromajer). Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia the Municipality of Ljubljana and the European Cultural Foundation  Contacts:   aksioma[AT]aksioma.org www.reakt.org powered by

THE BOOK RE:akt! reconstruction, re-enactment, re-reporting Edited by Antonio Caronia, Janez Janša, Domenico Quaranta Texts by Antonio Caronia, Domenico Quaranta, Jennifer Allen, Rod Dickinson, Jan Verwoert Published by fpeditions Distributed by Vice Versa, Berlin Language: English Date of release: march 2009 [MORE] EXHIBITIONS MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest January 22 – March 13, 2009 [MORE] ŠKUC gallery, Ljubljana March 25 – April 17, 2009 [MORE] MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka May 28 – June 21, 2009 [MORE] Maribor Art Gallery - Rotovž Exhibition Salon October 21 – November 19, 2010 [MORE] Curator: Domenico Quaranta

ABOUT THE PLATFORM 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! examines 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 development, an the constitution of perception through guided actions rather through passive recording of events. Domenico Quaranta RE:akt! Things that Happen Twice Antonio Caronia Never Twice in the Same River Representation, History and Language in Contemporary Re-enactment