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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
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org


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