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On January 28th, 2008, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša 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 Memorial’s structure this way, together assembling a common signature visible only in the internet. During the performance artists continuously repeated “Jaz sem Janez Janša, Jaz sem Janez Janša, Jaz sem Janez Janša…” (“My name is Janez Janša”). »Signature Event Context« at the Holocaust Memorial puts together 3 concepts (signature, event and context) from Derrida’s essay in complex relation; signature itself is an event which re-contextualizes the site of signature. The performance 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, was conjunctively cancelled by the director of transmediale Stephen Kovats and the Guest-Curator Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Consequently, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša rescheduled the date of the action performing on January 28, 2008 at 00.01 am. Watch the performance.




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»Artist Keys Car«, 2005. A performance by Mark McGowan wandering the streets of South East London and randomly keying cars.

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»Artist Eats Fox«, 2004. In a private at home performance, Mark McGowan ate a fox which caused widespread controversy. He said that he was trying to bring to the attention of people the plight of crackheads. Stating that a million people marched for foxes and a million people marched against foxes, but what about the crackheads who is going to march for them. He described the roast fox, as quite tasty, although he admitted to nearly vomiting at times.