Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet

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Kozmokinetični kabinet Noordug

Management: Župančičeva 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.noordung.net

makrolab@ljudmila.org

ProprietorNeue Slowenische Kunst - NSK State

Dragan Živadinov, Director

Events abroad

Past Events

• 3 Aug 2013

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  13 Oct 2013

  USA Lancastre Museum of Art and History (MOAH)

  
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  Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, a joint exhibition co-curated by Marko Peljhan, featuring also Slovene artists and organisations Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), Trieste Constructivist Cabinet, Nejc Trošt, Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet, Projekt Atol Institute

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 19 Jan 2013

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  18 May 2013

  USA Riverside (CA) California Museum of Photography,Culver Center of the Arts & Sweeney Art Gallery

  
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  Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, a joint exhibition also featuring Slovene artists and organisations: Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), Trieste Constructivist Cabinet, Nejc Trošt, Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet, Projekt Atol Institute, and curated by Marko Peljhan

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 21 May 2012

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  28 May 2012

  Russia Moscow Vinzavod

  
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  Postgravity Art, an informance by Dragan Živadinov, Miha Turšič and Dunja Zupančič (Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet)

  at the Media Festival Platform Moscow

  
  

  
  

• 20 Mar 2012

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  21 Apr 2012

  United Kingdom London Chelsea Space

  
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  Neue Slowenische Kunst 1984-1992 exhibition curated by Michele Drascek, presenting Laibach, Irwin, Novi kolektivizem (NK) and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Dragan Živadinov, one of the founders of Neue Slowenische Kunst (1985), founded Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre in 1984 and in 1985-1986 directed a number of cult performances (Marija Nablocka, Baptism Under Triglav, The Fiat, the retrogardist event Krst pod Triglavom and The Baptism under Triglav). In 1987 he founded Red Pilot Cosmokinetic Theatre (Zenit Observatory, 1988), and in 1990 the Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet (Noordung Praying Machine, 1992). In 1995 he dedicated himself to telecosmism, telelogy, and the 50-year project Noordung, named after Slovene space scientist Herman Potočnik Noordung (1892-1929) who wrote the book The Problems of Space Travel. See also Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Centre Vitanje.

The first Noordung show, One Versus One, opened on 20 April 1995 with the intention that a restaging will take place every 10 years, the next show being on 20 April 2015 and the final one taking place on 20 April 2045. The place of those actors who die in the intervening period will be taken by a mechanical symbol, their spoken text represented by sounds (melody for women, rhythm for men). In 2045 these symbols will be shot into zero gravity space in a capsule. Through this action it is intended to finally abolish mimetic theatre and establish the rule of non-corporeal art.

On 15 December 1999 Dragan Živadinov created Noordung Biomechanics, the first performance organised in zero gravity space, co-ordinated by Projekt Atol Institute, with the aim of researching the revolutionary changes taking place in the human body in a situation of a weightless theatre. The performance, which dealt with the problems of the time/space paradigm and the subject as an actor and performer in the electronic era, took place in the Russian cosmonaut training aircraft in the skies above Moscow. In 2005 a further Noordung production entitled Supremat was performed at Helix as a part of an NSK event held in Dublin to celebrate European enlargement.