Alexei Monroe
Alexei Monroe is a Research Fellow at Burren College of Art, Éire. He is a cultural theorist holding a PhD in Communication and Image Studies from The University of Kent. He is the author of Pluralni monolit (MASKA 2003) and Interrogation Machine (MIT Press 2005) on Laibach and the Slovene arts movement NSK. In March 2014 updated French and German translations were published by Ventil Verlag and Le Camion Noir. In October 2016 his second book, Autopsia: Thanatopolis was published by Divus.
His research interests include electronic and industrial music, Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, architecture and the cultural history of the Stag. In October 2007 he co-presented the research exhibition Jelenometry in Ljubljana, which explored Stag symbolism.
In 2010 he co-organised and moderated an international symposium on the work of Laibach and NSK as part of Laibach's 30th anniversary event and was programme director of the First NSK Citizens' Congress in Berlin, He is the editor of the Congress book State of Emergence (Ploettner Verlag/Poison Cabinet Press 2011) and co-editor of the book Test Dept: Total State Machine (PC Press, 2015). In 2016 he was a member of the organising committee of the 2nd NSK Folk Art Biennale, held at Burren College of Art.
His work has appeared in Contemporary Music Review, Central Europe Review, Kinoeye, Maska, The Wire, New Moment, AS, Trebuchet Magazine and many other publications. He has spoken at institutions including Tate Modern, LSE, Goldsmiths, Stedelijk Museum, Humboldt University, Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jan Van Eyck Academy, and Trinity College Dublin. He is also active as a music reviewer and DJ.
