“I believe in freedom for all.”
Janez Janša


Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, steirischer herbst, Graz and Artribune, Rome are happy to announce the “liberation” of Janez Janša … the movie, that is.


The director’s cut of My Name is Janez Janša, the film that inspires viewers to google their name again, is now available on-line for FREE with additional subtitles in English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech and Croatian languages: https://vimeo.com/46937250

A special edition of the movie has been made for the Slovenian-speaking audience: https://vimeo.com/46937249

My Name is Janez Janša (2012) is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place in 2007, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the then Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša.

The liberation of the film is the final step of the triple publishing initiative [FREE] Janez Janša, a series of on-line publishing events inspired by the documentary film itself. http://free.janezjansa.si
FREE Janez Janša started in December 2014 with the publishing of the essay What’s in a Name? by Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and film critic Mladen Dolar. The essay takes us on a philosophical joy ride through the name and naming as well as the name changing of the three artists known as Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša.
http://aksioma.org/Mladen-Dolar-What-s-in-a-Name

The second publishing event involved the launch of a special guest blog. From January to May 2015 the “No Land’s Man” and pioneer of net.art Vuk Ćosić teased our curiosity and stimulated our intellectual desire by presenting a series of articulated blog posts on topics such as Names, Pseudonyms, Multiple Names, Improper names, etc.. The posts also included over 50 clips that never made it into the final cut of the film My Name is Janez Janša.
http://free.janezjansa.si/blog

Contributions by Jan Fabre, Ubermorgen, Eva and Franco Mattes, Antonio Caronia, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Mladen Dolar, Marco Deseriis, Geoff Cox, Catherine Soussloff, Lev Kreft and many others have been collected here: http://mynameisjanezjansa.tumblr.com


The project FREE Janez Janša has been produced by:
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana | aksioma.org
steirischer herbst, Graz | steirischerherbst.at
Artribune, Rome | artribune.com
in the framework of the project Masters & Servers | mastersandservers.org


Contact: http://www.aksioma.org/contacts