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DemoKino WED 21st Nov 7 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Seminar TICKETS: 6/4€ (NOTE: Ticket purchase only from Kiasma) DURATION: 1 h 15 min, no intermission Performed in English 
DIRECTED BY: Janez Janša WRITTEN BY : Antonio Caronia PERFORMER: Kolja Saksida
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DemoKino is a virtual biopolitical parliament that through topical film parables provides the audience (voters) the opportunity to decide on issues that are, paradoxically, becoming the essence of modern politics: the questions of life. Eight short movies, depicting an anonymous man in his everyday life, are presented to the audience as “parliamentary bills”. The protagonist considers contemporary ethical dilemmas such as abortion, cloning, genetic modified organism, same sex marriages and water privatization, carefully pondering the “pros and cons” of each addressed topic in a specific room of his apartment. At the end of each short movie, viewers vote for or against the issue at hand, with the majority of the votes determining through which door in the apartment the protagonist enters next. He then proceeds to the next room and to the next dilemma. The project questions not only the utopia of contemporary virtual forum that is supposed to open ways for a more direct and influential participation but also points out a much deeper problem of modern democracy (virtual as well). DemoKino is a virtual parliament that clearly displays how politics comes before law. Law is just a utopic and redundant technical procedure to cover the political essence.
Janez Janša is a conceptual artist, performer and producer working and living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His artistic work has a strong social connotation and is characterized by an inter-media approach. Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts is a non-profit cultural institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which is interested in projects that take advantage of the new technologies in order to investigate and discuss the structures of modern society. Janez Janša is the artistic director of Aksioma. SEE HOW THE BALTIC CIRCLE'S AUDIENCE VOTED: CONTACT INFORMATION
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