The Wailling Walls
The Wailing Walls is an installation composed of two ice walls, a red and a black one. The walls will be set up on a slightly inclined ground so that the ice will slowly (most likely 14 days, depending on outdoor temperatures) melt into a fountain made in a form of a map of Slovenia. Together with the dirt on the street, reddish and black water forms a brownish puddle. On one hand, this gives an image of community in which we live whilst on the other it is a poetic way of showing what forms such an image. Following the example of the Jerusalem Wailing Wall, The Two Wailing Walls invites the visitors to insert their notes in the holes of both walls. It is their business whether or not they will take an ideological stand and pick one of the two walls.
At the same time, The Wailing Walls is a performance of two “actors” that slowly and persistently, through constant metamorphoses, through tears they shed, through icy silence, through red and black glitter transform into nothing. The walls/”actors” will disappear just like they disappear after any performance; they will leave behind nothing but a memory of a fourteen-day durational performance.
The second part of The Wailing Walls refers to an intimate crying performance. The venue of crying or the venue of tear donation event is comprised of three lacrimatories: the individual in which the individual attempts to cry over his personal memory; the collective in which the spectator has a possibility to choose from the scenes that can make them cry, and the physiological where they can cry with the assistance of an irritating agent. The spectator readdresses his/her own emotions and memory as well as memory of notorious local and global events. He is isolated and not being observed. He becomes a terminal spectator: author, performer and witness at the same time.
Installation
Concept: Janez Janša
Production: Maska
9. 3. 2012, Slomškov trg & SNG Maribor
Cast
Author: Janez Janša
Design and construction of wailing wall: Miro Rismondo
Lacrimatory design: Peter Šenk
Film editing: Darko Herič, Brian McKenna
Producers: Tina Dobnik
Public Relations: Urška Comino
Design and fabrication of spectacles: Boštjan Poljšak, Matjaž Izlakar
Credits design: Gašper Brezovar
Graphic design: Sandra Hrovat
Lacrimatory construction: Janez Šporar
Photo: Borut Peterlin & Damjan Švarc
Technical manager: Igor Remetta
Zidova objokovanja v javnosti
Peter Rak: Solze na kolektivni, individualni in fiziološki ravni
Delo / 8. 3. 2012
Janša izhaja iz političnega razumevanja zidu kot objekta oziroma prostora ločevanja in manifestacije moči, naj bo to kitajski, berlinski ali izraelsko-palestinski zid. Zid vedno konstruira ena stran, ki se želi ločiti od druge, ne glede na to, ali druga stran privoli v izgradnjo zidu ali ne. /…/ Zid objokovanja analizira fenomen joka, ki ga je Janša že nekajkrat izpostavil v performansih, v tem okviru se spet aktivira gledalec, ki je tudi ustvarjalec, izvajalec in priča umetniškega dogodka.
Rdeči in črni zid objokovanja Janeza Janše izrišeta “mlakužasto” Slovenijo
MMC RTV SLO /
Ledena Zidova objokovanja rdeče in črne barve sta postavljena na nagnjenem terenu, taleča voda pa bo odtekala v vodnjak v obliki zemljevida. “Izrisala se bo neopredeljena, mlakužasta barva Slovenije in na ta način bomo tudi povedali, kaj ta blokovska politika proizvede,” je povedal Janša.
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Dnevnik / Objektiv / 16. 6. 2012
Zidova objokovanja 5000 obiskovalcev
Konstrukti v prostoru: Zidova objokovanja
Finance / 23. 3. 2012
Zid je mogočna manifestacija politične moči, ki zapira in preprečuje pretok svobodnih energij in misli. A zid tudi varuje pred vdori škodljivih zunanjih vplivov – kakršni so že.
V Mariboru Zidova objokovanja umetnika Janeza Janše
Siol.net / 8. 3. 2012
Zidova objokovanja je obenem predstava dveh »igralcev«, ki se počasi in vztrajno, skozi nenehna preoblikovanja, skozi solze, ki jih vztrajno točita, skozi ledeno tišino, skozi rdeči in črni blesk spreminjata v nič. Zidova/«igralca« bosta izginila, tako kot izgineta po vsaki predstavi, za njima bo ostal le spomin na štirinajstdnevni vztrajnostni performans.
Objokovanje nad Slovenijo
Dom in vrt / 15. 3. 2012
Morda pa nam v tem času zrcalo lahko pokaže le še provokativen umetniški izraz, kakor je značilen za umetnika Janeza Janšo.
V Mariboru Zidova objokovanja umetnika Janeza Janše
STA / 8. 3. 2012
Predvidena talilna doba umetniške postavitve, poimenovane po jeruzalemskem kamnitem zidu, na katerega po avtorjevih besedah tudi močno referira, je 14 dni.
Foto dneva: Zidova objokovanja kot komentar mlakužaste Slovenije
MMC RTV SLO / 12. 3. 2012
