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Zdenka Badovinac (MG+MSUM) Eda Cufer

NSK from Kapital to Capital

Neue Slowenische Kunst—an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia

Zdenka Badovinac (MG+MSUM), Eda Cufer, Anthony Gardner (University Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Oxford)

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MIT Press
16 October 2015

Art & design styles: from c 1960

Series: The MIT Press

The generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century.

This book is the generously illustrated, lavishly documented, critically narrated story of one of the most significant art collectives of the late twentieth century.

In 1984, three groups of artists in post-Tito Yugoslavia-the music and multimedia group Laibach, the visual arts group Irwin, and the theater group Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater-came together to form the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective.

Adopting the symbols, codes, appearances, and discourses of fascism, nationalism, state power, socialist-realist, and avant-garde art, and pushing the strategies of overidentification and subversive affirmation to their limits, NSK exposed the common foundations of various regimes, systems, and ideologies, while affirming that ""art and totalitarianism are not mutually exclusive.""

Employing music, video, film, exhibitions, writing, graphic design, architecture, theater, and public relations to probe the aesthetic possibilities of declining socialism and proliferating capitalism, NSK introduced an idiosyncratic version of postmodernism (the Retro-Avant-Garde) into the globalizing cultural sphere.

Combining primary documents, period artifacts, critical essays, and contextual notes, NSK from Kapital to Capital documents NSK's collective practice during the final decade of Yugoslavia-from the first (and banned) Laibach concert (1980) in a small proletarian mining town in Slovenia to the series of projects launched by individual NSK groups entitled Kapital (1991-92). This illuminating chronicle of NSK's work and its reception is produced in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition devoted to NSK. Designed by Novi Kolektivizem (New Collectivism), the graphic design section of NSK, the cover of each individual copy of the book is printed with a custom detail; no two covers exactly are the same.

Copublished with Moderna Galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Contributors Eda Čufer, Goran Đorđević, Slavoj Zizek, Marina Grzinić, Rastko Močnik, Marina Grzinić, Lev Kreft, Tomaz Mastnak, Mladen Dolar, Chrissie Iles, Boris Groys, Inke Arns, Alexei Monroe, Catherine Wood, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Anthony Gardner, Barbara Borčič, Alexei Yurchak, Dejan Krsić, and others

Exhibition Moderna galerija, Ljubljana- 12 May-17 August 2015

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven- March-August, 2016 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow- Fall 2016

Edited by: Zdenka Badovinac (MG+MSUM), Eda Cufer, Anthony Gardner (University Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Oxford)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.610kg
ISBN: 9780262029957
ISBN 10: 0262029952
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 16 October 2015
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zdenka Badovinac is a curator and writer who has served since 1993 as Director of the Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Eda Čufer, one of the founding members of NSK, is a dramaturge, curator, and writer and the cofounder of Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater. Anthony Gardner is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Oxford and the author of Politically Unbecoming- Postsocialist Art against Democracy (MIT Press).

Reviews for NSK from <i>Kapital </i>to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst—an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia

Arguably, the nature of the NSK project makes the contemporary responses the group elicited -- positive and negative alike -- as much a part of their work as their records, paintings and theatrical productions. As such, this generous 600-page book has a good claim to be its definitive account, to be coveted by fans and treasured by scholars. * Art Review * Laibach are probably the most politically provocative band on the planet. Founded in Slovenia in 1980, they emerged as the musical wing of the radical Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) avant-garde movement. They remain active today, exploring the relationship between art and ideology, pop music and politics. This reader provides fascinating insights into both the band's early musical oeuvre and NSK activities. * Times Higher Education *