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NSK State
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- 11 October to 25 November 2018
NSK Rendez-Vous Grenoble, featuring an opening lecture by Borut Savski, the exhibition NSK State and Time (Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK)) by Irwin, screenings of Liberation Day, a documentary about Laibach's 2015 North Korea concerts, co-produced by Staragara, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Paris, at Cinéma Juliet Berto, Galerie Showcase, School of Art Grenoble in Grenoble, France
programme - 27 June 2017 to 8 January 2018
NSK: From Kapital to Capital, an exhibition of the Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), Irwin, organised in cooperation with Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain
programme - 30 September to 9 December 2016
NSK: From Kapital to Capital, an exhibition of the Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), organised in cooperation with Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana plus Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia
programme - 16 January to 4 March 2016
Monuments Should Not Be Trusted, an exhibition featuring works by Avgust Černigoj, Lojze Logar, NSK (NSK State), Irwin and OHO (OHO Group Award), curated by Lina Džuverović and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London, at Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, United Kingdom
programme - 24 May 2012
Curator’s Talk: Lina Džuverović on Irwin – Time for a New State / NSK – Folk Art exhibition (cf. NSK State) at Calvert 22 Gallery in London, United Kingdom
programme - 10 May 2012
20 year anniversary of NSK Moscow Embassy - Viktor Misiano in conversation, related to IRWIN – Time for a New State / NSK – Folk Art exhibition at Calvert 22 Gallery in London, United Kingdom
programme - 26 April 2012
Predictions of Fire directed by Michael Benson (1996) - Gallery Talk and Screening, a discussion with Chris Bohn, Editor, The Wire Magazine, related to IRWIN – Time for a New State / NSK – Folk Art exhibition at Calvert 22 Gallery in London, United Kingdom
programme - 4 April to 22 June 2012
IRWIN – Time for a New State / NSK – Folk Art exhibition presenting Irwin and NSK State at Calvert 22 Gallery in London, United Kingdom
programme - 17 September 2011 to 5 February 2012
NSK State and Tadej Pogačar in The Global Contemporary. The Art Worlds after 1989 exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany
programme - 22 October to 24 October 2010
First NSK Citizens’ Congress at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany
programme
Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK)
The collective movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), comprising the groups Laibach, Irwin, Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre (which later evolved into Noordung), Novi kolektivizem (NK) and the Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy, was founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1984, just as socialist Yugoslavia began to fracture. Its aim was to redefine the relation between art and politics, between culture and ideology. Its basic organisational principle was collectivism, a method of work was defined as retro-principle and the whole stylist formation was called Retro-avant-garde. The movement lasted approximately till 1992 when with the emergency of new political, ideological and economic reorganisation of Europe (the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the decline of the Eastern bloc, war in Yugoslavia, and the birth of new national entities, including the independent state of Slovenia), the Neue Slowenische Kunst officially launched the NSK State.
NSK State in Time
The NSK State itself is a collective work, a social sculpture, formed by both the iconography and statements of its founders and its citizens' responses to these and to the existence of the State. It has no formal "government” and no "central committee". It only has citizens, diplomats, bureaucrats, and executioners. The last two deal with technical issues and formalities. The State is based on self-management and non-alignment and it coexists as a parasite within already established bodies on the entire area of Time.
The right to NSK State citizenship is acquired through ownership of the NSK passport. By signing the adjoining statement the bearer of NSK passport pledges to participate on a best-effort basis to support the integrity of the NSK State. The NSK State passport is a document of a subversive nature and has a unique value. The applicability of the passport is unlimited and subject to the responsibility of its holder but in general the NSK passport may not be misused for criminal, ideological, religious or political purposes conflicting with the contents of NSK and/or jeopardising its integrity, reputation and good name. Today, with already more citizens than the Vatican, the NSK State has a strong potential to develop into a serious international and global force. So far over 15,000 passports have been issued.
The NSK State is now left to its own devices, entirely responsible for itself and solely depending on all its citizens. It will only exist as much as they will believe in it and as much as everybody will contribute to its collective being.
See also
External links
- NSK State website
- NSK Times blog
- First NSK Citizens Congress Berlin - EU supported project
- Good Times in Berlin article on the congress by Ian Parker, 2010 (the English version below)
