Transmediale cancels Janez Jansa event

In summer 2007, three artists officially changed their name to Janez Jansa. The Signature event context for the Transmediale art event wanted to address the marking of the Holocaust memorials in Berlin in response to this years’ festival theme CONSPIRE, which seeks to, “question, subvert, undermine and bypass the unspoken rules, hidden codes of conduct and assumed truths entrenched within our information driven communication cultures and ideological belief structures.” The act of banning such a performance felt into the ground of what conspiracy really means and has suffered most definitely from an act of censorship.

Transmediale festival director Stephen Kovats has canceled the opening event of the artistic group Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa and Janez Jansa. Such most accurate reason for banning this performance should shed even more light on attaching signatures to public monuments as well as to artistic freedom of expression.

Their performance consisted in walking with a GPS device between the memorial corridor in Berlin, both virtually and physically marking the path of the murdered Jews in Berlin. Anticipating the opening of the Trandmediale and the impossibility to disclose officially their engagement, signature of memory and signature of freedom enter into controversy.

Click here to watch their their signature event context

media art meets futurism

I’m assisting and covering the live performances of Radio Oltranzista during the week 25-31 january, ready to tun into futurist poetry talk and scream…listening to the art of noises, the Futurist manifesto performed by UNOROSSO yesterday evening, a live recitation that reminds a verse of cirindillincci, (an excerpt from the futurist sho vlummia poem by Marinetti)yesterday, Fred and Fruity have set up the radio station at De Balie, Amsterdam, which is broadcating on 105.6 FM in Amsterdam and is also streamed online. The radio will be covering Weerwoord festival, the Leidseplein literary festival – authors, talks and readings, poetry, live music……Marinettiprisoner of compromises,sweet, and crude

recycling

 the story of stuff is a video with a clever graphic style. It explains very efficiently about the whole chain of production and consumption. Where does all the stuff we use, buy and dump go? Well, the link with her ipod from the beginning of the video does certainly reminds of all the toxic ipod dumps in India. Now, if the story of stuff could be put on a loop for 10 hours and played over and over and over again on all the big screens around the world, would that be efficient? could be worth a try to dig into the management of huge multikulti companies? could there be some TVnews ritual, which would not cover news about murders and football, but would only play this video???could there be an introduction video that plays each time you enter a shopping street or a shopping mall? what difference would it make if you would travel and decide to make a donation for planting trees for each kilometer of wasted fuel in our atmosphere?  Donna Metzlar wrote this about her small inquiry in the waste situation in the Netherlands:now in the netherlands incineration is possible, but in the rest of theworld it nearly isn’t. so that means that all those old computers, tv’s,printers, mobile phones and so on go straight into landfills. for me thatis a pretty depressing scenario.anyways. one last anecdote from tonight. in naples, italy, they have asurplus waste problem. there’s no incinerator and no land left to fill.and the politicians are in a bind. so “they” made some deal with theincinerator company in rotterdam, which the city council sold two yearsago to some private company for a Lot Of Money. and soon it will all betransported by Train to rotterdam to be dealt with!?