Neue Slowenische Kunst
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The artist group NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) [New Slovenian Art] spearheaded one of the most important experiences in the culture that materialised in 1980s Yugoslavia, during the Cold War. NSK was a collective which bound together collectives and groups - Laibach, IRWIN and the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre/SNTS – with approaches to a range of disciplines. They conceived a series of departments - New Collectivism, The Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy, Retrovision, Film and Builders – which underpinned the theory and practice of the aesthetic principle behind the retro-avant-garde, primarily drawing on influences from the Russian avant-garde, Bauhaus and Fluxus. [1]
Events and publications
- Problemi 23(6): "Neue Slowenische Kunst", Ljubljana: RK ZSMS, 1985, 88 pp. (Slovenian)
- Transcentrala, documentary, dir. Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, 1993, 20 min.
- Prediction of Fire: A Film About Art, Politics and War [Prerokbe Ognja], dir. Michael Benson, 1996, 90 min. Documentary film. [2]
- Alexei Monroe, Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK, MIT Press, 2005. (English)
- First NSK Citizens Congress, Berlin, 2010.
- Neue Slowenische Kunst (1984–1992): A Historical Perspective, symposium, Tate Modern, London, 2012.
- Zdenka Badovinac, "Neues Slowenisches Museum: An Essay on Institutional Critique and the Production of Institution", Ostblick 3, 2014.
- NSK from Kapital to Capital, exhibition, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, 2015.
- NSK from "Kapital" to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst: An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia, eds. Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer and Anthony Gardner, Ljubljana: Moderna Galerija, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015, 600 pp. Publisher. Publisher. Exhibition guide. (English)
- NSK from Kapital to Capital, exhibition, Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2017-2018.
- NSK State Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Newspaper.
- Simon Paul Bell, Laibach and the NSK: An East-West Nexus in Post-Totalitarian Eastern Europe, Anglia Ruskin University, 2014, 472 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Joanna Szczepanik, Geografia artystyczna Neue Slowenische Kunst: wieloaspektowość i kolektywizm, Gdansk: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, 2014. (Polish)
- Ivana Bago, "Neue östeuropäische Kunst. The Global Contemporary and the Eastern European Retrocontemporary", in Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization, ed. Octavian Esanu, Routledge, 2020, pp 57-79. [3]
