NSK Folk Art
Developing ideas beyond the institutional or ideological constraints

Third Iteration of the Cosmokinetic Theatre Performance NOORDUNG::1995-2045

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The cosmokinetic theatre performance NOORDUNG::1995-2045 will return for its third iteration on April 20, 2025, at the Noordung Centre in Vitanje, Slovenia.

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Noordung Zero Gravity Biomechanical Theater

A week ago today, what has to be one of the most radical theater experiments of the 20th century--and it just barely made it--took place in the skies above Moscow. Slovenian director Dragan Zivadinov's Noordung Zero Gravity Biomechanical theater unfolded in a Russian cosmonaut training aircraft owned and operated by the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training facility, which is based in Star City, just outside Moscow. I managed to film the thing and cranked out the following text about it--which I thought might be of interest. Cheers, MB
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Why are Laibach and NSK not Fascists?

The ultimate expedient of Laibach is their deft manipulation of transference: their public (especially intellectuals) is obsessed with the "desire of the Other" -what is Laibach's actual position, are they truly totalitarians or not?- i.e., they address Laibach with a question and expect from them an answer, failing to notice that Laibach itself does not function as an answer but a question.
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Irwin - Retro Principle

The Principle of Manipulation with the memory of the visible emphasized eclecticism
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From the Internal Book of Laws: Constitution of Membership and Basic Duties of NSK Members

NSK principles are codified in the Internal Book of Laws in 1985. The only parts of this “book” to have been publicly issued are the “Constitution of Membership and Basic Duties of NSK Members,” along with the briefer “Five Principles of Friendship.” (NSK,Neue Slowenische Kunst, 4-3)
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Laibach: 10 Items of the Covenant

Fundamental Laibach manifest, written collectively in 1982, first published as a whole in 1983 (Nova revija, no. 13/14), occasionally titled as The 10 Items of Convent. Published also in Primary Documents, A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002), and in Institutional Critique – An Anthology of Artists’ Writings (MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)