[aha] NAME Readymade - Exhibition and book

[Aksioma]

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
www.aksioma.org/name

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.
More: www.aksioma.org/name_book


	In attachment:
	Letter to Mr. Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia

	THE NAME AS A READYMADE
	An interview with Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša
	by Lev Kreft
	http://www.aksioma.org/name/press/interview_kreft.pdf

	

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 at siol.net
www.aksioma.org


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