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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 a 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.
This book brings together different essays and documents on name changing and on the recent work by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša.
Contents
 Blaž Lukan
The Janez Janša Project
Amelia Jones
Naming Power and the Power of the Name: Janez Janša Performs the Political in/for the Art World
Zdenka Badovinac
What is the Importance of Being Janez?
Miško Šuvaković
3 x Triglav: Controversies and problems regarding Mount Triglav
Catherine M. Sousloff
In the Name of the Artist
Tadej Kovačič
The Right to (the Change of) Name – A Comparative Judicial Survey
Aldo Milohnić
Ready-Name
(Over-identification through Over-multiplication)
Antonio Caronia
Identity, Possibility, Rigid Designators: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Janez Janša and Concerning Systems
Lev Kreft
Name as Readymade (interview with Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša)
Jela Krečič
Janez Janša as media phenomenon
Book published by: Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art
Represented by: Zdenka Badovinac
Produced by:
Steirischer Herbst
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Maska - Institute for publishing, production and education, Ljubljana
Edited by: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
Distributed by: Revolver
Translations: Polona Petek, Tamara Soban, Jana Renée Wilcoxen, Denis Debevec
Language editing: Camille Acey, Dean DeVos
Graphic design: Kontrastika Studio
Printed by: Cicero Ljubljana
Print run: 1.000 copies
Ljubljana, October 2008
© for texts: contributors, Aksioma and Maska
© for visuals: the author
Published in the occasion of the exhibition
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade
4 - 25 October 2008, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Exhibition curator: Zdenka Badovinac
Produced by:
Steirischer Herbst
and Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Co-produced by: Maska - Institute for publishing, production and education, Ljubljana and Forum Stadtpark
Project manager: Marcela Okretič
Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana
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