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| <nettime-ann> NAME Readymade - Exhibition and book |
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Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and steirischer herbst festival, Graz kindly invite you to the exhibition: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša NAME Readymade Exhibition curator: Zdenka Badovinac steirischer herbst festival Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark1, Graz, Austria 4 - 25 October 2008 Opening: 4 October 2008 at 3:00 pm Artists talk: 5 October 2008 at 5:30 pm NAME Readymade Janez Janša is the name of Slovenia’s economic-liberal, conservative prime minister – and has also been the name of three well-known Slovenian artists since the summer of 2007; officially and with all the papers and stamps required for an official name change. All of their works, their private affairs, in a word their whole life has been conducted under this name ever since. One year later, they are now analysing the effects of this gesture in an exhibition for the first time. All of the exhibits are immediate products of reality: Janša, Janša and Janša turn the relationship of art and life on its head by means of transformation, translation, representation and mimesis. While above all art was redefined in the past century by the reality, Janša, Janša and Janša want to achieve the exact opposite by penetrating deep into their own real lives and into the life of their immediate environment. The exhibition is accompanied by the book NAME Readymade (Moderna galerija, Ljubljana / Revolver) containing exhaustive studies and rich visual materials. This publication is a parcours through different stages and aspects of the act of name changing. It contains essays by experts in the field and documents and writings on different actions and projects by Janša, Janša and Janša. Rich visual material makes this book an unique document of the work that has provoked wide range of interpretation in artistic as well as in general audience. THE NAME AS A READYMADE An interview with Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša by Lev Kreft CREDITS: Produced by: steirischer herbst festival, Graz, www.steirischerherbst.at Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, www.aksioma.org Co-produced by: Maska - Institute for publishing, production and education, Ljubljana, www.maska.si Forum Stadtpark, Graz, http://forum.mur.at Setup: RPS d.o.o., Ljubljana Coordination in Graz: Reinhard Braun Project manager: Marcela Okretič Book published by: Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana Co-published by: Revolver Publishing by Vice Versa Produced by: steirischer herbst festival, Aksioma and Maska Edited by: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša Texts: Blaž Lukan, Amelia Jones, Zdenka Badovinac, Miško Šuvaković, Catherine Sousloff, Tadej Kovačič, Aldo Milohnić, Antonio Caronia, Lev Kreft, Jela Krečič Graphic design: Kontrastika Language: English N. of pages: 208 Format: 164 x 236 mm Print run: 1.000 copies NAME – Readymade at steirischer herbst festival is supported by: the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Government of Styria, City of Graz, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana Contact: Marcela Okretič Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija gsm > sms: +386 – (0)41 - 250 830 |
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