Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce a new publication:
Janez Janša and Beyond Texts by Robert Pfaller, Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič and Slavoj Žižek Free PDF: <http://aksioma.org/pdf/JanezJansaAndBeyond.pdf> eBOOK Print on demand (B/W and colour version): <http://aksioma.org/Janez-Jansa-and-Beyond> http://aksioma.org/Janez-Jansa-and-Beyond Presentation of the book: Wednesday, 10 January 2018, at 7:30 pm at Kinodvor, Ljubljana as a part of the symposium <http://www.maska.si/index.php?id=154&id=154&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=1290&cHash=ed1e5121418394f30ad32d6d6dec1a3e&L=1> What’s in a Name? About the publication: In the summer of 2007 three artists from Slovenia legally changed their names to “Janez Janša,” the name of the right-wing Prime Minister at that time. Since then, the artists have presented their works as performances, exhibitions and a film documentary, and have continued with their investigation of “What’s in a name?” Starting from this famous Shakespearian question, four eminent European philosophers – Austrian Robert Pfaller and Slovenians Mladen Dolar, Jela Krečič and Slavoj Žižek – confront the implications of the Janšas’ name change and its consequences in four essays. Ten years of artistic and real life activity, here illustrated by a photographic insert, presents an opportunity for them to discuss the symbolic power of the name, the ways it affects the subject and subjectivity, and how playing with names can lead to a radical critique of our late capitalist civilization. Marcela Okretič Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Aksioma | Project Space Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830 e-mail: marc...@aksioma.org <mailto:marc...@aksioma.org> www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>
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