Janez Janša Bottles
Would Coca Cola taste as sweet with another name? 2017
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša (SI)
Janez Janša Bottles is a pop readymade (art made from manufactured objects) that playfully adopts and subverts cosmetic customisation, produced by exploiting the personalisation procedure offered by the Coca Cola Company to replace the name of the product with the name Janez Janša. The process is subverted because Janez Janša is — as a name — both personal and shared by at least four public persons (the three artists and the Slovene political figure), and because it has been printed on a small number of bottles — a supply that doesn’t conform to the idea of personalisation implicit in mass customisation.
BIO
For Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, life, artistic practice, theoretical reflection and political involvement are not divided. For almost ten years now, through their work, they have been building a complex narrative structure on topics such as proper names, identity and signature, particularly focusing on the legal aspect of art practices and on the political imaginary in law. The central characteristic of their production is an ambivalence on multiple layers, crossing the borders of formal and media conventions
Janez Janša is a visual artist, working in the cross section of traditional visual art practices, conceptual art and new media. In 2003, he represented Slovenia at the 50th Venice Biennial. He has also shown his work in the São Paulo, Prague and Limerick Bienniales, and in numerous other venues.
Janez Janša is artist, writer, performer and director of interdisciplinary performances as well as conceptual and visual artworks. His work contains strong, critical and political dimensions and it is focused on the relation between art its social and political context. He is author of the book JAN FABRE — La Discipline du chaos, le chaos de la discipline, Armand Colin, Paris (1994) and has been editor-in-chief of Maska — The Performing Arts Journal from 1999 to 2006. He is the director of Maska, the institute for publishing, production and education based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Janez Janša is a conceptual artist, performer and producer living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of numerous videos, performances, installations and new media works which have been presented in several exhibitions, festivals and lectures around the world. He is the director of the film My Name Is Janez Janša, co-founder and director of Aksioma — Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and artistic director of the Aksioma | Project Space.