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»a moon of saturn resting on a doric foundation«, 2007 by Robert Andrade. Collaboration with Daniel G. Baird.

»Monument to Charles Fourier«, 2006 by Liam Gillick.

»Oh why so serious?«, 2008 by Paul Chan.

»Obelisk«, 2009 and

»Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy«, 2009 by Ben Schumacher.

»Statue of Glory and Generosity«, 2009 by Laith al-Amiri.

»Monument X«, 2007 by Tarek Zaki.

»Friedrich«, 2008 by Nicolas Pelzer and Alfons Knogl.

»Seven Future Gifts«, 2008 by Mircea Cantor.

»Downscaled and Overthrown«, 2008 by Shahryar Nashat.

»THE CHASE«, 2008 by Collectif-Fact.

“Marble and Blood”, 2007 by Chen Wei.

“Untitled Monument (37,5 hours on the subway)”, 2008 by Gard Andreas Frantzsen.

»Heroes Square (1896) Vs Obi Wan Kenobi (1977)« by Ives Maes.

Mixed media installation “The Rumor (Or How Samantha Fox Helped Cacak Reach Fame)“, 2007 by Michael Blum.

»Monumentos / Monuments« by Pablo Hare.

Photos from the publication “Motherland” by Simon Roberts.

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.

In »SPOMENIK / The End of History« Jan Kempenaers portrays monuments raised by the communist regime in former Yugoslavia.

Geographical Analogies # 3 (Yosemite National Park, Bronx, Central Park) and video “Desniansky Raion” by Cyprien Gaillard. Video.

»Scene for a New Heritage«, 2004 and »Scene for a New Heritage II«, 2006. These two films take place at a Petrova Gora Memorial Park at a monument designed by esteemed modernist sculptor Vojin Bakiç. In Croatia, 2045 a group of young travelers makes a journey to a silver monument which had been erected under the communist government of Yugoslavia to commemorate the Second World War. It is the 25th of May, Tito’s birthday anniversary, and they are on a quest to recollect the monument’s fading promise. Nearly two decades later, in 2063, Petrova Gora Memorial Park is visited for a second time. In both films the monument-museum, once idealised as an abiding testament to ideology, is now perceived as at first a moment embedded with avant-garde ciphers, and ultimately an abstraction. By David Maljković.