Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade

Performative Präsentation
3 February, 2010, 7-10 PM

all photos (c) 2010 Art Laboratory Berlin

Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade

Performative Presentation

The event will present the act of “Name changing” perpetrated by three Slovenian artists who in 2007 officially, with all the required papers and stamps, changed their names to the then prime minister of Slovenia , Janez Janša (2004-08). All Janez Jansas’ works, their private and public affairs, in a word their whole life, has been conducted under this name ever since. (more information)

3 February at 7PM
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade

Performative Presentation

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to invite you to NAME Readymade, the performative presentation of Janez Janša. The event will present the act of "name changing" perpetrated by three Slovenian artists who in 2007 officially, with all the required papers and stamps, changed their names to the then prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša (2004-08). All Janez Jansas' works, their private and public affairs, in a word their whole life, has been conducted under this name ever since.

"When the three artists changed their names to Janez Janša, they in fact adopted a critical stand to the state. To the Slovene government, in which until recently all posts seemed occupied as it were by a single person - Janez Janša. [...] Through the multiplication of Janez Janša's name, the function of the prime minister has assumed, within this specific artistic action, a similar position as the Campbell soup cans in Andy Warhol's works." (Zdenka Badovinac, Name Readymade, October 2008)

Janez Janša will take us through a series of artistic, political, administrative and media oriented actions performed by himself together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, with a particular focus on their latest personal exhibition entitled NAME Readymade. Works exhibited in this show (valid ID cards, passports, credit and bank cards, driving licences, birth and marriage certificates, and so on) were generated by reality itself.

Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša cut right through the midst of their own realities, using procedures typical for art - transformation, translation, representation and mimicry. They turned around the classical relational scheme between art and life as it was developed in the 20th century. Art in the previous century was defined by way of reality entering into artistic contexts without mediation (Badiou defines the 20th century as the 'passion for the real'), while Janša, Janša and Janša want to achieve the opposite, so that their methods cut deeply into their material lives and the lives of their immediate surroundings.

More information: Readymade - THE EXHIBITION, www.aksioma.org/name

Production
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art and the Steirischer Herbst Festival in collaboration with Maska and Moderna galerijy Ljubljana.

With support by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana

Workshop: "Copyright and related topics for artists. musicians, filmmakers and other creative producers" with Andreas Lichtenhahn (lawyer), in German.
29 November at 3 PM

Vernissage of
Creative Rights - On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft




repetitions-revolutions-rituals by Azin Feizabadi


The Copyright Piece by Christian de Lutz


David Hammons. The Unauthorized Retrospective by Triple Candie


Planed (right) by Gilbert & George




Farkhondeh in front of Azin Feizabadi's work


The Creative Rights Library




Patrick Cariou vs Richard Prince from The Creative Rights Library



Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints.

Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey

The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright.

more at http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-16.htm and http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm

Image: Azin Feizabadi, from Repititions-Revolutions -Rituals

Art and Law IV
Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft

Azin Feizabadi, Gilbert & George, Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie

The Creative Rights Library with documentation about Shepard Fairey vs AP, Richard Prince vs Patrick Cariou, Creative Commons, The Fair Use Projekt, Piratpartiet, etc.

Opening 27 November 2009, 8PM
Duration: 28 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
(closed 18 December 2009 - 3 January 2010)
Open Sat - Sun 2-6PM, exhibition tour 3PM

Workshop: "Copyright and related topics for artists. musicians, filmmakers and other creative producers" with Andreas Lichtenhahn (lawyer), in German.
28 November 2009, 15h (free, registration necessary: info@artlaboratory-berlin.org)

Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints. Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright. (more information)

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce
the Moscow exhibition of

Failed Organisms

Reiner Maria Matysik

November 26, 2009 – January 24, 2010
at
Laboratoria Art & Science
Russia, 105064, г. Москва
ул. Воронцово Поле, 10
8 (495) 917-32-57

Failed Organisms
originally shown in Summer 2008 at
Art Laboratory Berlin

http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/de-ausstellung-10.htm
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-10.htm
http://www.reinermatysik.de/

Text to the exhibition Failed Organisms
at Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow, by Regine Rapp

Film Screening: Strange Culture,
http://www.strangeculture.net

(D: Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2007), followed by a Round Table. The case of Steve Kurtz will be discussed from legal, cultural-political and curatorial perspectives: Eberhard Schultz (lawyer), Mark C. Donfried (Institute for Cultural Diplomacy) and Christian de Lutz (Art Laboratory Berlin); Moderated by Regine Rapp (Art Laboratory Berlin).
Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Platz 2, 10785 Berlin


Regine Rapp (Art Laboratory Berlin)




Eberhard Schultz (lawyer)




Mark C. Donfried (Institute for Cultural Diplomacy)

(photos above © 2009 Tim Deussen Fotoscout.de)


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