revenim la un subiect mai vechi - cel al cenzurii: un alt proiect a fost cenzurat, de aceasta data la Transmediale.08
performance-ul poate fi vazut la: http://www.aksioma.org/sec/ usv -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 59, Issue 29 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, January 29, 2008 13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:03:18 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [spectre] Signature Event Context banned from Transmediale.08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Signature Event Context banned from Transmediale.08 January 28, 2008 Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a "Signature Event Context" Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas Berlin, Germany !!! WARNING !!! The performance "Signature Event Context" by Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a scheduled for the opening of TRANSMEDIALE.08 the 29th of January 2008 at 8.30 pm at the foyer of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany, has been conjunctively CANCELLED by the director of transmediale Stephen Kovats and the Guest-Curator of the exhibition CONSPIRE⦠NataÅ¡a PetreÅ¡in-Bachelez. Consequently, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a and Janez JanÅ¡a anticipated the date of the action performing "Signature Event Context" on January 28, 2008 at 00.01 am WATCH THE PERFORMANCE www.aksioma.org/sec Signature Event Context In summer 2007, three Slovenian artists officially changed their names to Janez JanÅ¡a. Their work focuses on the question of signature, and â more particularly â on the role of signature in public space. In their various approaches, they explore Derridaâs famous statement on signature and its paradoxical relationship towards originality and repetition. âBy definition, a written signature implies the actual or empirical nonpresence of the signer. But, it will be said, it also marks and retains his having-been present in a past now, which will remain a future now, and therefore in a now, in general, in the transcendental form of nowness (maintenance). This general maintenance is somehow inscribed, stapled to the present punctuality, always evident and always singular, in the form of the signature. This is the enigmatic originality of every paraph. For the attachment to the source to occur, the absolute singularity of an event of the signature and of a form of the signature must be retained: the pure reproducibility of a pure event.â(Jacques Derrida, âSignature Event Contextâ in Margins of Philosophy, tr. Alan Bass, pp. 307-330) On January 27th, 2008, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a, and Janez JanÅ¡a performed Signature Event Context at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, a walking action in the corridors of the Memorial. Each one of them, equipped with a GPS device, covered a different path within the Memorialâs structure this way, together assembling a common signature visible only in a virtual space (the internet) . During the performance artists continuously repeated âJaz sem Janez JanÅ¡a, Jaz sem Janez JanÅ¡a, Jaz sem Janez JanÅ¡aâ¦â (âMy name is Janez JanÅ¡aâ). Signature Event Context at the Holocaust Memorial puts together 3 concepts (signature, event and context) from Derridaâs essay in complex relation; signature itself is an event which re-contextualizes the site of signature. In his book At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000) the American scholar James E. Young writes that there is no intrinsic meaning in memorials. Instead, they derive their meaning from visitors' interactions: each visitor makes their own experience of memory at a memorial. The structure of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which invites a visitor for an individual experience â as has been stated by its architect Peter Eisenman â, points to the intention of the Signature Event Context project. Eisenman concludes his statement with the following explanation of the experience in the Memorial: "In this monument there is no goal, no end, no working one's way in or out. The duration of an individual's experience of it grants no further understanding, since understanding is impossible. The time of the monument, its duration from top surface to ground, is disjoined from the time of experience. In this context, there is no nostalgia, no memory of the past, only the living memory of the individual experience. Here, we can only know the past through its manifestation in the present." (Eisenman Architects, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin. Project text by Peter Eisenman) In Derrida's words, walking and talking signatures by JanÅ¡a, JanÅ¡a and JanÅ¡a are the physical manifestations of nowness via individual experience. The traces of the walking and talking signature are left only in virtual space. Memory is always already a performance of virtuality. REASON FOR BANNING S.E.C. FROM TRANSMEDIALE.08 According to the new director of Transmediale Stephen Kovats and to the Guest Curator of the exhibition CONSPIRE⦠NataÅ¡a PetreÅ¡in-Bachelez, the great cause for banning this project from the festival 4 days before its opening has to be find in âjudicial and legislative reasonsâ (Kovats) and âpersonal - curatorial and ethical convictions« (PetreÅ¡in-Bachelez). Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a understand the banning act as an ACT OF POWER perpetrated by the artistic director of the festival and its guest-curator to the detriment of the artists and as an ACT OF VIOLENCE towards freedom of artistic expression. Artists hereby formally invite the director of Transmediale Stephen Kovats, the guest-curator of the exhibition CONSPIRE⦠NataÅ¡a PetreÅ¡in-Bachelez and all the subscribers of this mailing list to an open confrontation on issues disclosed by Signature Event Context. "Signature Event Context" - images of the performance http://www.aksioma.org/sec/press.html Credits Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a, Janez JanÅ¡a Signature Event Context Performance, SI, 2008 Production: Aksioma | www.aksioma.org Co-production: Maska | www.maska.si, Arscenic | www.arscenic.info _______________________________________________ SPECTRE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre End of SPECTRE Digest, Vol 59, Issue 29 *************************************** _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
