A record of everyday encounters with racism June 30th 2001 - June 30th 2004 as a bystander, as a victim and as a racist.

Formerly, www.alanajelinek.com was exclusively used as the portal for artwork:

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me - you - them

(see below for more information)

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The Brand

Conforming to world standards, Alana Jelinek is a branded artist.

The brand is counter-Power and the brand is integrity.

But are these in fact 'brands'?
To those involved in advertising and marketing, every human instinct, value or endeavour may be considered a 'brand'. Rather than compete with the growth in market values across every aspect of life, the Alana Jelinek brand will use the language of the corporation and the market to describe the life-market-niche it supplies. There is no other validated language, after all, within the art-world/-market, and increasingly, also within academia.

The Alana Jelinek brand is exclusive to specific contexts. The Alana Jelinek brand will not be aligned with corporate sponsorship by Transnational Corporations (TNCs), nor will it be aligned with commercial art venues. Products (like books, novels and art objects), events and performances under the Alana Jelinek brand may be for sale, as this brand is not a critique of markets on the level of street markets and bazaars, but markets on the level of unregulated free-market global capital. Its brand is counter-Power.

The Alana Jelinek brand will not be aligned with any institution which promotes iniquity and Power, whether it operates within the Market or the State. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, it is understood that both the Market and the State have a tendency towards promoting and increasing inequality and freedom-but-for-the-few. Both the market and the state underpin systems which create hierarchy, fixity ans stasis while claiming to do the opposite.

The Alana Jelinek brand will be aligned with events and institutions which genuinely promote freedom and equality (these are, by definition, counter-Power). It will not service any other marketing aim or brand other than its own.

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Contact :

• Published first novel 2007 'Ohm's Law' with terra incognita
  (terra incognita link) ISBN: 978-0-9535045-3-4
• PhD at Oxford Brookes University 2004-2008. AHRC award. Part-practice, part theory, 'Art as a democratic act: the interplay of context and content London 2000-2006' (due to complete early 2008)

Materials available on request

• terra incognita arts organisation publications (terra incognita website)
  • novels published under <1% series including 'Ohm's Law' 2007
  • 'curio' 2002 (original essay contributions by Annie Coombes, Richard Stemp, Juliette Brown, Alana Jelinek)
  • 'between borders' 2000
  • 'empire and I' 1999 (original essay contributions by Catherine Hall and Juliette Brown)
• Full CVs
  • Art practice
  • Academic
  • Curating
  • General Gallery and Education Employment
• talks and essay texts for
  • engage 2006 on the Inter-Gallery Educator's Course
  • Australian and New Zealand Art Historians conference, 2006, 'Modernism is Dead. Long Live Modernism'
  • Third Text 2001-2, 'Working within and against Tate Modernism'
• Larger files of artwork images or exhibitions

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a l a n a j e l i n e k

me - you - them

A record of everyday encounters with racism
June 30th 2001 - June 30th 2004
as a bystander, as a victim and as a racist.

Please click any of the links for the racism 'blog'.

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