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a simple person would expect

a painting to represent something nice,

a landscape or something.

But these are... The painter who painted

this wanted to say something.

He is practically the only one who could

explain it. I can't get to the bottom of it.

Laibach as Laibach?

Laibach as a music group is very

popular abroad, in Europe.

I saw on TV that they had a concert in

Vienna, and in Prague they were sold out.

But here, in our town,

they are not so well known.

We don't know they are only a

music group or are they something more.

We think the paintings are beautiful,

but look what the mine looks like.

Let's go!

Wait, we're having an interview!

Let's go! Good luck!

It's difficult to explain.

I think Laibach have a very special style,

a way of expressing

themselves through music,

it's a kind of protest

against society.

A kind of... reaction against society and

the system, the whole European system.

All art is subject to political manipulation

except that which speaks the language

of the same manipulation.

- NSK Statement

By the middle of the century, the machinery

producing power from coal and steam

and the machinery producing

mythology from images of power

are manufacturing each other.

The mass reproduction of images

on strips of moving celluloid

prefigures the mass media which will follow -

the beginning of new, increasingly

global, cycles of manipulation.

ARCHIVAL FILM TITLE:

Visit of Marshal Tito to Trbovlje.

Cleanse / klenz/ /vt/

(formal or archaic)

make thoroughly clean; make pure:

~/ of/from sin/.

~ /n/ [C,U] substance that ~ses

(eg a synthetic detergent).

STOP THE PARAHUMAN!

Our mission is to make

evil lose its nerves.

- Laibach

Conditions of Burning and

Methods of Extinguishing.

(Films Zora, 1950)

I'm not going to translate this,

it's basically a fire drill.

God's Kindergarten

The brutal civil war that has been

raging across the Yugoslav republics

since the Axis invasion is finally extinguished in

For the next 50 years, European

stability will be enforced by

an unprecedented dismemberment

of Central Europe

and the rest of the continent between

the two great Cold War blocs.

The immense world of violence has fallen!

Ljubljana has proved that it

is the live heart, the live,

beating heart of an alive, proud, heroic

Slovenian national organism!

A one-time Austro-Hungarian soldier from

Belgrade speaks in Congress Square.

Although the Yugoslav state has

risen intact from its own ashes,

its Western borders are disputed by the

leader of the new Communist regime.

Ladies and Gentlemen! Comrades!

We want the entire world to know that

Yugoslavia, which was fighting,

doesn't want anything but that one

nation, of one blood,

shall live within the framework of one state!

Although Tito's demands are

not backed by force,

the old Habsburg port of Trieste and

part of Austria are claimed by Yugoslavia.

Trieste becomes the site of clashes between

military police and Slovenian protesters.

But it soon becomes clear that the substantial

Slovenian populations here and in the

Austrian province of Koroska, will remain west

of what is now known as the Iron Curtain.

Who gave their lives for

the freedom of Koroska?

The Partisans of Koroska gave

their lives for the freedom of Koroska!

Where, then, is our northern frontier?

Our northern border is there

where our victims fell!

Let's sing a partisan song!

Brothers, to the sun of freedom!

Brothers, come up to the light,

the painful night is behind us,

ahead lies a day of freedom!

The painful night is behind us,

ahead lies a day of freedom!

People love parades.

The concept of politics as entertainment was

one of the great inventions of mass propaganda.

Although the fascist

states had been defeated,

the aestheticization of politics lived

on in communist rituals.

As for the parades, they were an assembly

line manufacturing the new history.

Traditions had to be invented

and well documented.

In its own way, the ideology that had

been planted in Europe's Eastern half

believed itself to be at the beginning

of a thousand year Reich.

Europa

Leben / Tot

There's a Balkan quality

to European history.

Long before the

springtime of nations

and the contemporary idea

of the nation-state,

ethnic groups and rival religions

and ideologies of Europa

fought for domination over

populations and scraps of land.

If Slovenia was, as the Quisling

propaganda minister proclaimed,

God's Kindergarten

then all of Europe was his

playground,

dedicated to refining strategies of

domination and manipulation

that was destined

to rule the world.

Every new order pre-supposes

the existence of disorder

and is already infected with an

inherent virus of future disorder.

- Laibach

Although Tito had broken Yugoslavia free

from Stalin's East Bloc in 1948,

creating the world's first

non-aligned Communist state,

in the end his

"soft totalitarianism"

was no more resilient than that of

the other regimes of Eastern Europe.

The crash of a unifying ideology,

initially spilled more blood in the

Balkans than anywhere else.

Less than a year after

the implosion of the USSR,

and the disintegration

of Yugoslavia,

the Irwin group flew to Moscow with

the idea of facilitating communication

between the

post-Communist states.

Group action:
Irwin &

Kinetikon Pictures, 7. June 1992

The evaporation of Soviet power had been

characterized by what Robert Hughes called

"A migration of images into oblivion."

Previously, though, Communism had erased

its own large share of history.

So it seemed appropriate to treat the

vast stage of Red Square for what it is:

a symbolic zone, in which various

competing myths are presented -

and sometimes

"re-presented."

This is a Black Square

on the Red Square.

NSK as a system was

established in Slovenia in the 80's,

and this action is the first

in which this system has begun to move,

where this body has

moved to Moscow...

I would like to make a link.

In the 80's, NSK contemplated

ideology in totalitarian states,

and that was a kind of answer to the

position of Eastern Europe within art.

In the 90's, where totalitarian

states are disappearing,

and national states emerging, NSK

starts to think about its own state

in time, and not in space. That's why the

embassy was our ideal space, our ideal form.

There's a new embassy in Moscow.

True, it was not announced in the newspapers,

or mentioned on TV, or anywhere else.

The NSK Embassy is in a normal

domestic apartment on Leninsky Prospect.

Still, it has attracted large crowds

of people, including artists, intellectuals,

and punks. NSK Ambassador Miran

Mohar says that NSK came to Moscow....

After they'd removed all our

famous and majestic monuments,

such as this one of Dzerzinsky,

the chief and organizer of the KGB,

and Kalinin, our first and most

beloved president, who ruled in Stalin's time,

and Yakov Sverdlov, who played an

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