Delo, daily newspaper, Slovenia, March 4th 1999
A
Cocktail of Isotopes Into the Veins
Mojca Kumerdej
(…)
Janša employs medical procedures to pose questions about human identity,
perceptions, and the intangible connection between the obscene corporeal
inner world and its glamorous skin surface.
(…) in the installation he creates a virtual "radioactive"
double - the fluid etheric dimension of the body of Janez Janša, which
we can view through narrow slits in the chamber - with digital
imaging of his life functions, visual as well as sonic.
Razgledi, art magazine, Slovenia, March 1999
The
Human Body In All Variations
Aleš Vaupotic
(…) Janša underwent a nuclear medical test in order to create his double, an entity made of animated digital images of live human tissue and organs. Then he placed the image of his bodily functions - his nuclear body - inside an aluminium chamber. Again, the viewers are faced with the body, a nuclear double which is displayed instead of the real thing.
TV SLO 1, Slovenia, March 10th 1999
Osmi
dan
(weekly cultural telecast)
Saša Šavel
(…) We cannot speak of the aesthetic beauty of modern Odysseus's journey, which sinks in the humorous and cruel images of video film. Janez Janša's Overturnment / Nuclear Body, however, is an aesthetic mission. The artist's work stems from regular medical procedures. He exposes his body to medical manipulation and alters it.
Break 21, catalogue, May 1999
Body
after body
Dunja Kukovec
Janez Janša does not want the long process of evolution, causing anthropological changes ranging from biological, social and behavioural ones, to be at odds with neuro-chemical instant changes that can immediately turn the perception of oneself and the environment upside down.
SINTESI - Finestra sull'immagine digitale in Italia, catalogue, 1999
L'UBIQUITÁ
DELLA TEIERA - riflessioni sull'immagine di sintesi italiana
Nico Piro
(…) An innovative body art experiment which jumps out of the over viewed mainstream of "direct" corporeal modification. It makes of the "element body" a source of visual-aesthetic kind.
Maska, Scenic Art's Magazine, num. 3, 1999, page 87, 89
Aesthetic
Body
Uroš Korencan
(...)
different existential situations are also a challenge to the artist
who, through Nuclear Body, creates a virtual body, his double or similar,
which lives his own cyclical life in fluid aggregation and originates
from a digital uterus.
(…) J. Janša brings into material life his clone without skin.
(…) In the desire for an eternal, gravity-free body independent
of natural forces, the nuclear body is the right direction.
MIR-Art in Space, catalogue of the exhibition, Bolzano-Bozen, November 1999
Mir-Age
Ernesto L. Francalanci
(…) But also the same destiny of mutation joins us, us who remain on the earth and the cosmonaut who lives in space and who will shortly live on the Moon and on Mars. It is a common destiny of contamination, radiation, and irreversible metamorphosis. Once again foreseeing, radar man, angel with your head turned backwards, flying acrobat, the artist transforms the isotopes that run through your body, the nuclear rays, the terrible prophetic signs: the organic body subjected to the scintigraph gives of reactive signals that allow the processing of an electronic image. From organic the body has become immaterial, digital. This is the prophecy.
Il Manifesto, daily newspaper, Italy, December 9th 1999
ARTE
I viandanti del cyberspazio
Nico Piro
(...) body art work where the body becomes an aesthetic source rather then an object to redesign.
