New venue and date for First NSK Citizens’ Congress

The dates and venue for the Berlin congress have now been finalised. The congress will run from 21st to 23rd October. We are pleased to announce that the venue for the Congress will be Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin’s House of World Cultures.

Machines up to the iron sky

In the year 1945, the Nazis went to the Moon, and in 2018 they are coming back. This is the premise of the sci-fi film Iron Sky, the upcoming movie project from the creators of the hugely popular internet hit Star Wreck.

GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH, Fundamentals 1980–1990

Thirty years have passed since the founding of Laibach, a group whose music and performances have become part of cultural history. What many do not know, however, is that Laibach, in fact, began its career as a visual art group.

The Eye of the State

Laibach announces new exhibitions for 2010

Following this year’s major and successful retrospective exhibition AUSSTELLUNG LAIBACH KUNST – RECAPITULATION 2009 at Museum Sztuki in Łodz (Poland), Laibach is announcing a number of large-scale exhibitions for next year (2010), this time in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Trbovlje.

Outlook: WORDS FROM AFRICA at Utopics

In the early years of NSKSTATE.COM, especially around the years 2007 and 2009, more than 2000 people from Africa, (mainly from Nigeria) contacted NSKSTATE.COM by email. WORDS FROM AFRICA is a collection of these emails organized according to the words that was used in the messages.

Call for Participation: First Collection of Volk Art

NSKSTATE.COM and Irwin are gathering material for the first exhibition of work produced by NSK citizens and followers. Selected works will show online and photographic and video material will be presented at the First NSK Citizens Congress in October 2010.

NSK Passport Office in Athens

The first NSK Passport Office was opened in Athens on 14 June 2009 on the occasion of the opening events of “Heaven”, the 2nd Biennale of Athens that tool place in the cost of Faliro.

Ausstellung Laibach Kunst – Recapitulation 2009

Laibach announced the opening of a large-scale Laibach exhibition in Muzeum Sztuki in Łodz (Poland), on May 26th 2009.

Postgravity art :: Syntapiens

DUNJA ZUPANČIČ explores two complex systems in postgravity art: empty-body directing and the syntapiens system, and visualises their point of connection. She geometrises all conceptual information about the emptybody directing of Dragan Živadinov and about the syntapiens system by Miha Turšič with temporal layering and informing.

Exhibition The White Sport

Laibach are contributing a specially edited sequence lifted off their Mute-released DVDs for the group exhibition ‘The White Sport – Myths of Race’, curated by NSK Diplomat Avi Pitchon, and Hanna Freund-Shertok, opening on May 5th in Minshar Gallery in Tel-Aviv, standing until June 19th. This is the first time Laibach are officially and directly involved in a project taking place in Israel.

NSKSTATE.COM Map Overlay

NSKSTATE.COM Map Overlay during the last year. 102,563 visits came from 4,517 cities

Irwin - STATE IN TIME

For the first time ever the Slovenian art group Irwin exhibits its works in Denmark. At the exhibition the group presents NSK-State in Time. This continuing communication project presents a utopian state without a concrete territory, but with several thousands of citizens plus formal national symbols such as a flag, stamps, emblems and a passport that everyone is free to obtain. One of the exhibited works, Words from Africa, is a collaborative work between Irwin and nskstate.com.

Laibach among superheroes

Laibach frontman as Von Bach in Absolute Kingdom Come (DC Comics), by Mark Waid and Alex Ross

The Reykjavik embassy of NSK

The Reykjavik embassy of NSK opens at Reykjavik Academia (Reykjarvíkur Akademíunni) on 22nd March 2007. This is the anniversary of Laibach's first performance in Rejkjavik and has been declared the State holiday of NSK in Reykjavik.

Laibach - Volk

LAIBACH announced a brand new album release, VOLK. The album was released on Mute on 23rd October and has been preceded by a single release, ANGLIA on 9th October 2006.

East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

A reconstruction of the missing history of contemporary art, art networks, and art conditions in Eastern Europe from the East European perspective.

Interrogation Machine Laibach and NSK

The first English-language study of NSK—one of the contemporary art world's most radical forces—with particular focus on the performances and productions of NSK's musical and conceptual division, Laibach.

Peter Mlakar at the Areopagus in Athens

Peter Mlakar came to Athens, invited by NSKSTATE.COM, for a special ceremony on the rock of Acropolis. The Department of Pure and Practical Philosophy, chose the same place were St. Paul spoke to the People of Athens about the “Unknown God” for the first time, two thousand years ago, to give a speech about the universal God, the “corner stone” of “the most radical directions in the philosophy of religion or in the theology itself”.

STATE OF ART - The New Slovene Avant Garde

The first of the former Yugoslav republics to declare its independence, Slovenia largely avoided the ravages of the Balkans conflict, setting the stage for a remarkable cultural renaissance. In recognition of this region’s unbridled creativity, Northwest Film Forum and Scala House Press are pleased to present STATE OF ART: THE NEW SLOVENE AVANT GARDE, showcasing the best of a new breed of contemporary Slovene filmmakers, writers, visual artists and musicians.