Neue Slowenische Kunst

The Neue Slowenische Kunst or NSK , “New art Slovenien German”, is a political collective of discussed art appeared in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was still part of the Yugoslavia.

Composition

The NSK is an entity gathering under the same generic name several groups of Slovenien artists:

  • Laibach, group of industrial Music with international notoriety. (founded in 1980)
  • Noordung or Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet , theater company (founded in 1983)
  • IRWIN, collective of painters (founded in 1984)
  • Novi Kolektivizem (NK) or “New collectivism”, studio of graphics (posters and propaganda)
  • Department of pure and practical philosophy, theories, with which the philosopher Slavoj Žižek
is associated

Presentation

Works NSK are inspired by the Esthétique modes totalitarian S and movements extremist S and nationalist S. artists NSK often réapproprient the aspects of the “totalitarian kitsch”, in a style marked by the influence Dadaïsme, juxtaposing often together the Symbole S of Idéologie S opposite policies.

For example, a poster of the NSK of 1987 created a scandal by gaining the contest for the Yugoslav celebration of the Jour of youth (and birth of the former president Tito): The poster of the NSK took again a poster of the years 1930 of the artist Nazi Richard Klein, replacing simply the symbols Nazis (flag, eagle) by the symbols of the Socialisme.

In 1991 is constituted “State NSK”, a virtual Micronation. This entity provides for example official papers (Passeport S, plugs and seals postal) and at the time of artistic performances declares certain places as territories of State NSK. During the Head office of Sarajevo (1992-1996), passports NSK would have made it possible several hundreds of people to flee the city.

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